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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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set on energy and economic growth from Sweden spanning 150 years to determine whether increases in energy use and energy … with larger samples are more likely to show that energy causes output growth but it is also possible that the relationship … between energy and growth has changed over time. Energy prices have a significant causal impact on both energy use and output …
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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 …
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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 … as a reduction in energy intensity, while holding constant that economy’s mix of inputs and outputs. All other things …
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Physics shows that energy is necessary for economic production and, therefore, economic growth but the mainstream … theory of economic growth, except for specialized resource economics models, pays no attention to the role of energy. This …. A possible synthesis of energy-based and mainstream models is presented. This model shows that when energy is scarce it …
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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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[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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564734
This study uses a stochastic production frontier to model trends in energy efficiency over time in a panel of 85 … a literature survey and theoretical model of the choice of energy efficiency technology. An improvement in a country …’s energy efficiency is measured as a reduction in energy intensity while holding constant the input and output structure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564742