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Improving energy efficiency is often considered to be one of the keys to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, efficiency gains also reduce the cost of energy services and may even reduce the price of energy, resulting in energy use rebounding and potential energy use savings being eaten...
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This study examines the stationary properties of per capita energy use in the 19 Eurozone member countries by using annual data over 1960–2013 period. We utilize the Clemente et al. unit root test that determines structural breaks. Empirical results show that most of the country series does...
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. The trends of energy efficiency, GDP per capita and GHG emission are shown for the observed countries. The European and … targets. In order to see the relationship between energy efficiency, GDP per capita and GHG emission, the correlation among … correlation between energy efficiency and GDP and GHG emission in both EU27 and Serbia. …
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Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, many countries have pledged to end or restrict their oil and gas imports to curtail Moscow's revenues and hinder its war effort. Thus, the European ministers agreed to trigger a cap on the gas price. To detect the importance of the price cap for gas, we...
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Emission trading Scheme (ETS) is gaining momentum with its increasing market size and constantly improving information transmission mechanisms. With carbon assets becoming prominent as an alternative asset in investment portfolios, the ETS market has engaged a broad range of participants,...
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This paper investigates the recent increases in natural gas prices and its propagation effects via inflation expectations. Using a structural vector autoregression, we identify a euro area natural gas price shock with a combination of sign- and zero-restrictions. We rely on market-based measures...
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This paper studies the volatility spillover and dynamic correlation between EU emission allowance (EUA) prices and energy prices by considering three energy commodities, including oil, gas, and coal. The asymmetric BEKK model is employed for multi-phase analysis of EU ETS, yet only a little...
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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 1970-1997. We explicitly aim to trace back aggregate...
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This article studies the likely impact of unconventional gas developments in the US on EU competitiveness. We find, first of all, little evidence for a prosperous unconventional gas development in Europe. Second, the US boom has already a strong impact on both world and European energy markets....
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coefficient) is statistically significant in the real GDP equation. Instead, the energy use is only positively affected by its own … lags. The forecast errors in real per capita GDP are mainly due to uncertainty in GDP itself and (marginally) in energy use …
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