We present Turkey’s manufacturing-sector innovation data and, for the first time, analyze likely relationships among GDP growth, sectoral innovation intensities, energy consumptions, and energy-saving potentials. We detect a power-law-like relationship between the projected energy-saving...

This paper evaluates the impact of a policy that was implemented to reduce the energy intensity of firms in some manufacturing sectors in India, on the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of firms and on its components, scale efficiency and technical change. Using plant-level panel data on...

Environmental tax schemes in OECD countries often involve tax rates differentiated across industrial, commercial and household sectors. In this paper, we investigate four potentially important arguments for these deviations from uniform taxation: pre-existing tax distortions, domestic equity...

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...

This paper develops and implements a methodology for assessing the role of energy prices in reducing energy intensity in Chinese industry. For the short run, the paper estimates contemporaneous energy price elasticities; for the long run, the paper examines the impact of energy prices on...

This paper investigates the driving forces that can promote or impede process innovation adoption in the European food manufacturing industry. The study uses a logit model applied to Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data containing information on innovation at the industry level for 15 EU...

An econometric analysis of industry energy intensity is presented in this paper. The overall purpose of this study is to increase the understanding of the factors that are influencing industrial energy intensity. In this paper we have attempted to identify and measures the factors behind the...

This study provides estimates of the price and orishima substitution elasticities between energy and non-energy inputs in two Canadian energy-intensive manufacturing industries: Primary Metal and Cement. The elasticities are estimated using annual industry-level KLEM data (1961-2003) and relying...