Pathway to Decrease the Energy Intensity Under the Background of"Competition and Cooperation"in Sichuan-Chongqing Area
This paper uses balanced panel data from 2005 to 2019 to examine energy intensity reduction in the Sichuan-Chongqing area under"competition+cooperation",and finds that government rivalry aids in reducing energy intensity,unaffected by policy effects or reverse causality.The empirical results show that the competition between the governments in Sichuan-Chongqing area is useful to reduce energy intensity.This result remains significant after changing government competition variables,excluding policy effects and addressing reverse causality.The influence mechanism shows that strengthening the technical cooperation between Sichuan-Chongqing area,as well as increasing the R&D inputs and promoting the upgrading of industrial structure are the main ways of government competition to reduce energy intensity.Further analysis shows that the change of enterprise property right structure will significantly affect the effect of government competition on reducing energy intensity in Sichuan-Chongqing area.In the future,under the background of jointly promoting the construction of Sichuan-Chongqing area,in addition to carrying out competition in traditional fields,increasing the technological innovation cooperations in means of promoting technology sharing and activating the vitality of private enterprises will help promote the formation of energy saving effect.
Sichuan-Chongqing areacompetition and cooperationenergy intensity
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