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A Review on Energy Consumption from a Socio-Economic Perspective: Reduction through Energy Efficiency and Beyond
Schmidt, Stephan; Weigt, Hannes - 2013
Reducing energy demand and increasing energy efficiency are seen as major elements of the ongoing transformation of energy systems in multiple national and international programs like the EU 20-20-20 targets. Despite the predominately socio-economic nature of energy demand such interdisciplinary...
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Recent evidence on agricultural efficiency and productivity in China: a metafrontier approach
Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat; Wang, Xiaobing - 2007
Economic reform in China helped transform the structure and volume of agricultural production and resulted in … productivity (TFP) in China by allowing producers operating under their own technologies. A metafrontier function approach is … enhancing agricultural TE and TFP growth in China. Our major findings indicate that TC was mostly attributed to Chinese …
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The impact of reform on economic growth in China: A principal component analysis
Song, Ligang; Sheng, Yu - 2008
further urbanization, openness to trade and industrial structural adjustments to sustain the growth momentum in China. The … study also found that the potential for further enhancing growth through technical efficiency in China is considerable …
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What Drives the Efficiency of Hard Coal Fuelled Electricity Generation? An Empirical Assessment
Voigt, Sebastian; Hoffmann, Tim - 2009
The efficiency of electricity generation in hard coal fired power plants varies considerably from country to country and over time. These differences occur both between developing and developed countries and between industrialised nations. The econometric analysis presented in this paper tests...
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Russia's agriculture: eight years in transition - convergence or divergence of regional efficiency
Uvarovsky, Vladimir; Voigt, Peter - 2000
In this paper, we consider how Russian Agriculture has developed since the constitution of the Russian Federation. The analysis is based on Oblast level data of 75 territorial units during the period from 1993 to 1998 and is focusing on technical efficiency (TE), technological change, and (both...
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Macroeconomic effects of an energy saving policy in the public sector
Quirion, Philippe - 2002
Nearly all the macroeconomic literature on environmental policies deals with taxes and tradable permits. A policy instrument that still needs to be looked at is a switch in government expenditure away from environmentally-damaging goods, in particular fossil fuels, and toward resource- and...
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Energy Evaluation and Economic Impact Analysis of Green Roofs Applied to a Pilot Region in Aegean Coast of Turkey
Çelik, Serdar; Retzlaff, William; Morgan, Susan; … - 2010
This paper examines the energy savings, environmental benefits, and economic impact of green roof systems applied to a "micro" region in Western Turkey. This subdivision (Artur) in Karaaægaç, Izmir, consists of 1729 residential units, mostly used as summer homes. The units are in 45m2, 60m2,...
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Subsidizing the Adoption of Energy-Saving Technologies: Analyzing the Impact of Uncertainty, Learning and Maturation
de Groot, Henri L.F.; Mulder, Peter; van Soest, Daan P. - 2004
As part of the Kyoto Protocol, many countries have committed themselves tosubstantially reduce the emission of greenhouse gases within a politically imposed timeconstraint. Investment subsidies can be an important instrument to stimulate the adoption ofenergy-saving technologies to achieve...
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20% by 2020? Economy-wide impacts of energy efficiency improvement in Germany
Lehr, Ulrike; Lutz, Christian; Pehnt, Martin; Lambrecht, Udo - 2011
The paper presents results of the implementation of an efficiency strategy in Germany until 2020 which is focused on cost-effective measures. The efficiency measures are calculated in bottom-up models and translated into a top-down macro-economic model. The comparison to a business as usual...
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Greening the Financial Sector: How to Mainstream Environmental Finance in Developing Countries
Köhn, Doris (contributor) - 2012
Environmental finance, particularly energy efficiency and renewable energy (EERE) finance, can and should serve as an interface to other sub-sectors of financial sector promotion such as microfinance, housing finance or agricultural finance. For example, existing clients of financial...
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