西部大开发中的能源开发与经济增长

Based on resource curse hypothesis and aimed at the fact that laggard economic development level coexists with wealthy energy resource endowment in western China, this paper carries out a econometric analysis about the relationship and its transmission mechanism between energy development and economic growth with cross-province panel data over 1997-2005. Primary statistical observation presents energy development is relative negatively to economic growth in western China. Econometric results of regression model including various control variables reveal that since the implementation of the western development strategy, evident resource curse effect form energy development really exists as a result of the negative significantly correlation between energy development and economic growth. Moreover, the further econometric analyses indicate that energy development in western China impedes economic growth mainly through three indirect transmission channels: the crowding-out effect towards human capital and S&T progress, and the weakening of institution aroused by renk-seeking and corruption. And among them, the crowding-out effect towards S&T progress is the most important transmission channel. Energy Development；Economic Growth；Resource Curse；Transmission Mechanism；Crowding-out Effect