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What if energy time series are not independent? Implications for energy-GDP causality analysis

Bruns, Stephan B.; Gross, Christian - In: Energy Economics 40 (2013) C, pp. 753-759

Time series of electricity, petroleum products, and renewables are found to be highly correlated with total energy …

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Power outages and economic growth in Africa

Andersen, Thomas Barnebeck; Dalgaard, Carl-Johan - In: Energy Economics 38 (2013) C, pp. 19-23

This paper estimates the total effect of power outages on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1995–2007. We pay close attention both to potential errors of measurement of African economic growth and to the endogeneity of outages. As suggested by Henderson et al. (American...

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The case of negative day-ahead electricity prices

Fanone, Enzo; Gamba, Andrea; Prokopczuk, Marcel - In: Energy Economics 35 (2013) C, pp. 22-34

In recent years, Germany has significantly increased its share of electricity produced from renewable sources, which is … mainly due to the Renewable Energy Act (EEG). The EEG substantially impacts the dynamics of intra-day electricity prices by …-day electricity prices and propose an estimation procedure for this model. Most importantly, our model is able to generate extreme …

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Saving money vs investing money: Do energy ratings influence consumer demand for energy efficient goods?

Panzone, Luca A. - In: Energy Economics 38 (2013) C, pp. 51-63

possibility of behavioural adjustments in consumption. In contrast with the induced innovation hypothesis, current electricity … energy efficiency when expecting electricity prices to rise in the future. …

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Heterogeneous effects of regulation on the efficiency of the electricity industry across European Union countries

Pompei, Fabrizio - In: Energy Economics 40 (2013) C, pp. 569-585

productivity (TFP) growth in the electricity sectors of 19 European Union countries for the period 1994–2007. Both the OECD …

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A comparative study among fossil fuel power plants in PJM and California ISO by DEA environmental assessment

Sueyoshi, Toshiyuki; Goto, Mika - In: Energy Economics 40 (2013) C, pp. 130-145

This study compares among fossil fuel power plants in PJM and California ISO by their unified (operational and environmental) performance. DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) is used as a methodology. For comparative analysis, DEA incorporates strategic concepts such as natural and managerial...

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DEA window analysis for environmental assessment in a dynamic time shift: Performance assessment of U.S. coal-fired power plants

Sueyoshi, Toshiyuki; Goto, Mika; Sugiyama, Manabu - In: Energy Economics 40 (2013) C, pp. 845-857

This study discusses a new use of window analysis for DEA environmental assessment in a time horizon where DEA stands for Data Envelopment Analysis. The data sets on environmental protection are often structured by time series. In applying DEA to environmental assessment, it is necessary for us...

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Explaining the diffusion of renewable energy technology in developing countries

Pfeiffer, Birte; Mulder, Peter - In: Energy Economics 40 (2013) C, pp. 285-296

In this paper we study the diffusion of non-hydro renewable energy (NHRE) technologies for electricity generation … behind the choice of whether or not to adopt NHRE as well as about the amount of electricity to produce from renewable energy … and strategic policy support programs, growth of electricity consumption, and high fossil fuel production appear to delay …

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The extent of European power markets

Böckers, Veit; Heimeshoff, Ulrich - In: Energy Economics 46 (2014) C, pp. 102-111

There is an ongoing debate on the degree of integration of European wholesale power markets. A major task of the European Union is the creation of a common market in Europe and a common power market is an important part of this goal. The literature analyzing the degree of integration of European...

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What explain the short-term dynamics of the prices of CO2 emissions?

Hammoudeh, Shawkat; Nguyen, Duc Khuong; Sousa, Ricardo M. - In: Energy Economics 46 (2014) C, pp. 122-135

response to changes in the prices of oil, coal, natural gas and electricity. The results show that: (i) a positive shock to the … coal prices on the CO2 allowance prices when the electricity prices are excluded from the BSVAR system; and (v) a positive … shock to the electricity prices has a negative impact on the price of the CO2 allowances. We also find that the energy price …

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