Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name:  Jin Zhang and David C. Broadstock
Title:  The Causality between Energy Consumption and Economic Growth for China in a Time-varying Framework
Classification-JEL: F0
Volume:  Volume 37
Issue:  China Special Issue
Year:  2016
Abstract:  Extending existing studies based on constant structure, we adopt a time-varying approach to study energy consumption and GDP causality for China in a context of industrialization and urbanization. We find that in light of structural change, China's energy consumption is trend-stationary and thus forms no cointegration with GDP. Further, the relationship between energy consumption and GDP is two-way causal and has been decreasing in strength over time. Finally, industrialization and urbanization, especially the former, have limited effects on energy consumption, suggesting the decreasing energy intensities in individual sectors, instead of structure shift between sectors, as the main reason for China's decreasing energy intensity over the years. 
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