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countries such as India are entering a phase of higher economic growth. The decisions on investment in energy systems that will …-country model that includes India. This simulation illustrates that an immediate increase in the price of carbon either through …
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[1] Household survey data for ten countries are used to quantify and test the importance of price and non-price factors on residential water demand and investigate complementarities between household water-saving behaviors and the average volumetric price of water. Results show: (1) the average...
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set on energy and economic growth from Sweden spanning 150 years to determine whether increases in energy use and energy …, choice of additional variables in the model, and sample periods. Better results can be obtained by using multivariate models … with larger samples are more likely to show that energy causes output growth but it is also possible that the relationship …
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If long-term greenhouse gas emissions in Australia are to be reduced, renewable energy is likely to be critical. This … electricity rests mainly with the success, or otherwise, of its Mandatory Renewable Energy Target and expanded Renewable Energy …
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Interfuel substitutability has been of longstanding interest to energy economists and policy makers. However, there has … present, but model and data specification issues very significantly affect the estimates derived by each individual study …
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This study uses a stochastic production frontier to model energy efficiency trends, in 85 countries over a 37 year … and a theoretical model of energy-efficient technology choice. An improvement in a country’s energy efficiency is measured … remaining constant, the country using the least energy per unit output is on the global best-practice frontier. The model is …
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Interfuel substitutability has been of longstanding interest to the energy economics and policy community. However, no … less substitutability in more developed economies. Publication bias does not seem to be present, but model and data …
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. A possible synthesis of energy-based and mainstream models is presented. This model shows that when energy is scarce it … model. There are, however, various mechanisms that can weaken the links between energy and growth. The empirical literature …Physics shows that energy is necessary for economic production and, therefore, economic growth but the mainstream …
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The issue of energy security has been a subject of discussions in Indonesia for a long time. However, until the end of … domestic prices of fuel and electricity through subsidies. With approximately 43 percent of the country's energy sources … derived from crude oil, the amount of government spending on energy subsidies increased from almost nothing in 1996 to …
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Though there is a very large literature examining whether energy use Granger causes economic output or vice versa this … causality and cointegration techniques to a Swedish time series data set on energy and economic growth spanning 150 years to … test whether increases in energy use and energy quality have driven economic growth. We show that these techniques are very …
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