This paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by … exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly …

This paper makes use of a new dataset to investigate energy intensity developments in the Netherlands over the period … evaluation of energy intensity developments in a wide range of Service sectors. We find that across sectors energy intensity … by a shift towards a more energy-intensive industry structure, while in the Service sector about one-third of the …

This paper uses a new dataset derived from a consistent framework of national accounts to compute and evaluate energy … intensity developments across 18 OECD countries and 50 sectors over the period 1970-2005. We find that across countries energy … aggregate energy intensity dynamics. A convergence analysis reveals that only after 1995 cross-country variation in aggregate …

This paper addresses the interplay between economic growth, energy use, change in sectoral composition and … technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over … considerably to macroeconomic energy-productivity growth while in other countries they partly offset energy-efficiency improvements …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level … catch up with technological leaders, in particular in terms of energy productivity. Moreover, the results show that …, and that cross-country differences of energy-productivity levels are substantially larger than of labour …

We present a detailed analysis of energy intensity developments across 23 service sectors in 18 OECD countries over the … period 1980−2005. We find that the shift towards a service economy has contributed to lower overall energy intensity levels … of energy efficiency improvements as the manufacturing sector. In most OECD countries actual energy intensity levels in …

This paper analyses the adoption of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies by heterogeneous firms. The fact that … energy use does not only cause external environmental costs through pollution, but also directly affects the profitability of … energy use. The analysis focuses in particular on the efficiency of the market-led adoption and diffusion process under …

The energy transition from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources has important consequences for technological … energy source in a market economy model of endogenous growth through expanding varieties. During the energy transition … simultaneous use of the resource and the alternative energy source will take place if the return to innovation becomes too low. …