Economic Effects Of Energy Industry Agglomeration

Taking the five provinces and autonomous regions around the Ordos Basin for example,this paper studies the economic effects of energy industry agglomeration.Generally,industrial agglomeration is acknowledged as a favorable market organization which could effectively improve local economic growth.The ring of Ordos Basin is rich of natural resources such as coal,oil and gas,which shows a good base of agglomeration economy with the concentration of energy enterprises.However,the economic performances of Shan-Gan-Ning-Jin-Meng are under the national average level all the year round.Especially in recent years,facing economic downturn and steep fall in energy product price,it performs extremely frailly.Therefore,what economic effects does the energy agglomeration bring to the region of Ordos? Starting from this doubt,this paper carries out the study on the economic effects of energy industry agglomeration.For sections are included in this thesis.The first section is introduction,mainly introduces the research background and significance,literature reviews of domestic and aboard,research design,methods and innovation.Theoretical study is contained in the second part.From our point of view,industrial agglomeration has both positive and negative economic effects.The positive effects could promote local economic growth,but the negative is on the contrary.The final economic effects of industrial agglomeration determines to both of them.The empirical study comes to the fourth section.The present development situation of energy industry in the ring of Ordos is firstly described in the third chapter,and then its agglomeration level is measured.The result tells that energy industry reflects good agglomeration status while there are differences within provinces and industries.In the fourth chapter,using SFA method,the TFP growth of energy industry is measured.After that,the econometric model is designed,which is applied to study the economic effects of energy industry agglomeration with panel data.The results show that the whole energy industry agglomeration has an evidently negative correlation with economic effects.But the upstream industrial agglomeration has positive economic effects at 10% significant level while no evident correlation is showed in the downstream industry.Basing on above research results,the countermeasures and suggestions of are given in six aspects to improve the economic effects of energy agglomeration in the ring of Ordos.