The improvement gap in energy intensity: Analysis of China's thirty provincial regions using the improved DEA (data envelopment analysis) model

Energy

Volumn 84, Issue , 2015, Pages 589-599

  Li, Ke ^a,c   Lin, Boqiang ^a,b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Energy intensity; Group frontier; Total factor effects

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION;

CHINA; DISCRIMINATING POWER; ENERGY EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS; ENERGY INTENSITY; ENERGY SAVING POLICIES; GROUP FRONTIERS; TOTAL FACTOR ENERGY EFFICIENCIES; TOTAL-FACTOR EFFECTS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY PLANNING; ENERGY POLICY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL PATTERN;

CHINA;

EID: 84928419768     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2015.03.021     Document Type: Article

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