offset energy-efficiency improvements. In contrast, structural changes only play a minor role in explaining aggregate …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 …

decrease in efficiency was undone by a shift towards a less energy-intensive sector structure. This discussion paper led to a …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 …

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 …

considerably to macroeconomic energy-productivity growth while in other countries they partly offset energy-efficiency improvements …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 …

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 …

of energy efficiency improvements as the manufacturing sector. In most OECD countries actual energy intensity levels in … energy efficiency performance within a wide range of service sectors. We show that the introduction of Information and … instruments to enhance energy efficiency in the service sector. In contrast, climate conditions have a clear impact on energy …

This paper studies the impact of cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) on Carbon Dioxide emissions. Carbon … country determines the direction of the effect of M&As on CO2 emissions; (ii) Sector-specific impact: pollution intensive … sectors have an impact on CO2 emissions, whereas other sectors do not; (iii) Multilateralism: multilateral agreements are …

This paper analyses the adoption of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies by heterogeneous firms. The fact that … energy use. The analysis focuses in particular on the efficiency of the market-led adoption and diffusion process under … variouspolicy regimes. It is shown that the promotion of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies might have unexpected effects in …