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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Mar. Sci.
Sec. Marine Affairs and Policy
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1519162
This article is part of the Research Topic Challenges and Solutions in Forecasting and Decision-Making in Marine Economy and Management View all 20 articles

Technological progress bias and its impact on resource efficiency in China's mariculture industry

Provisionally accepted
Jiaojiao Kong Jiaojiao Kong 1,2Yanan Sun Yanan Sun 1*
  • 1 Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
  • 2 Heze Medical College, Heze, China

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    Technological progress (TC) is an important driving force of resource efficiency, and its bias has an important impact on resource efficiency. Based on the data of China's mariculture industry from 2008 to 2020, this paper constructs a double-layer nested CES production function, and uses the seemingly unrelated regression method to estimate the elasticity of substitution between resource elements and non-resource elements of mariculture industry, and measures the level of resource biased technological progress (RBTC). On this basis, the vector autoregressive model is used to explore the relationship between RBTC, resource price and resource efficiency. The results show that: Firstly, there is complementarity between the resource elements of China's mariculture industry and the non-resource elements aggregated by labor and capital. Secondly, there is a long-term equilibrium relationship between resource biased technological progress, resource price and resource efficiency. resource biased technological progress has a short-term negative and long-term positive impact on resource efficiency, and resource price has a short-term negative and long-term positive impact on resource efficiency.Based on this, this paper puts forward relevant policy recommendations to promote the improvement of resource efficiency of mariculture.

    Keywords: resource biased technological progress, Resource efficiency, Elasticity of substitution, mariculture, CES

    Received: 29 Oct 2024; Accepted: 09 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Kong and Sun. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Yanan Sun, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

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