important factor counteracting the energy-use and carbon-emissions increasing effects of economic growth. …I use a stochastic production frontier to model energy efficiency trends in 85 countries over a 37-year period …. Differences in energy efficiency across countries are modeled as a stochastic function of explanatory variables and I estimate the …

carriers, sectoral energy use and carbon emissions) are changing in the process of economic development. For the average … use of most primary energy carriers, the consumption of final energy in most sectors and total CO2 emissions. For … economic growth were accompanied by larger improvements in energy efficiency. These results emphasize the need to identify the …

change. That treaty was negotiated at a time when the research literature examining emissions mitigation and the role of … energy technology was relatively limited. In the two subsequent decades a great deal has been learned. The problem of … role of technology appears even more important when emissions mitigation strategies are co-developed in the context of …

With the global expansion of renewable energy (RE) technologies, the provision of optimal RE policy packages becomes an …

. When we look at different time periods we observe what appears to be a fall in the efficiency of the energy distribution … energy distribution network. Specifically, we structurally test the network theory of electricity distribution of Dalgaard … capital having an exponent bounded between ½ and ¾ depending on the efficiency of the network. We use data for 224 cities in …

could significantly increase energy demand and associated CO2 emissions. This paper provides one of the few formal …Energy poverty alleviation has become an important political issue in the most recent years. Several initiatives and … policies have been proposed to deal with poor access to modern sources of energy in many developing countries. Given the large …

This paper analyses the technical efficiency of Chinese fossil-fuel electricity generation companies from 1999 to 2011 …, using a Bayesian stochastic frontier model. The results reveal that efficiency varies among the fossil-fuel electricity … efficiency of these companies. Policy implications are derived. …

We examine the role of substitution from traditional to modern energy carriers and of differential rates of innovation … based on the econometric results. Even though the rate of technical change was higher for modern energy, innovation in the … use of traditional energy carriers contributed more to growth between 1850 and 1890, since the cost share of traditional …

This paper discusses attempts to represent the role of R&D in the transition towards a low carbon economy through … elasticity of substitution between clean and dirty technologies, carbon sinks, or the productivity of researchers are not in …