能源经济外文文献 Ghanaian energy economy_ Inter-production factors and energy substitution.pdf

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 57 (2016) 1260–1269 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews journal homepage: /locate/rser Ghanaian energy economy: Inter-production factors and energy substitution Boqiang Lin a,n, Philip Atsagli b, Kingsley E. Dogah c a Collaborative Innovation Center for Energy Economics and Energy Policy, China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy, Xiamen University, Fujian, 361005, PR China b The School of Economics, China Center for Energy Economics Research, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, 361005, PR China c Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Industries in Ghana depend highly on petroleum to fuel their operations which has brought immerse Received 24 November 2014 environmental threat from greenhouse emission gas (GHG). This study tried to investigate potential Received in revised form substitutability of factor inputs and fuel inputs among capital, labor, petroleum and electricity in Ghana 26 September 2015 by adopting the translog production and cost function approach. We used Ridge regression technique to Accepted 17 December 2015 estimate the parameters after our data show possibility of multicollinearity. Our result shows that, all Available online 8 January 2016