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论文类型：期刊论文

发表时间：2016-08-01

发表刊物：ENERGY POLICY

收录刊物：SCIE、EI、SSCI、Scopus

卷号：95

页面范围：304-313

ISSN号：0301-4215

关键字：Market distortions; Aggregate productivity growth; Resource misallocations; Chinese energy enterprises

摘要：Market distortions can generate resource misallocations across heterogeneous firms and reduce aggregate productivity. This paper measures market distortions and aggregate productivity growth in China's energy sector. We use the wedge between output elasticities and factor shares in revenues to recover a measure of firm-level market distortions. Using data on a large sample of Chinese energy enterprises from 1999 to 2007, our estimations provide strong evidence of the existence of both factor and product market distortions within and across China's various energy industries. The productivity aggregation and decomposition results demonstrate that the estimated aggregate productivity growth (APG) is, on average, 2.595% points per year, of which technological change, resource reallocation, and firm entries and exits account for 1.981, 0.068, and 0.546% points, respectively. The weak contributions of resource reallocation and firm turnover to APG are also found in energy sub-industries, except in the coal industry. Our research suggests that China's energy sector has major potential for productivity gains from resource reallocation through the reduction of market distortions. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.