Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/40686 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 2008,8
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
The general concern on the environmental implications of the rising demand for coal registered in China during the last few years has induced considerable research effort to produce accurate forecasts of China's energy requirements. Nevertheless, no previous study has modelled the coal demand in China at provincial level. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we estimate and forecast the Chinese demand for coal using panel data disaggregated by provinces and accounting for spatial heterogeneity. Second, given the spatial nature of the data, we explicitly capture the spatial autocorrelation among provinces using spatial econometrics. In particular, we specify the Chinese industrial coal demand at provincial level with a fixed-effect spatial lag model and a fixed-effect spatial error model. The fixedeffect spatial lag model seems to better capture the existing interdependence between provinces. This model forecasts an average annual increase in coal demand to 2010 of 4 percent.
Subjects: 
Energy demand
Coal demand
China
Spatial econometrics
Panel data
Forecasting
JEL: 
C23
E6
Q31
Q41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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