Wind power is the largest renewable energy source which produces a negligible amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, has gained enormous attention in the electricity generation sector over the past decade in the United States. In this study, a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is implemented to...

We exploit a rich new database on Prices and Quantities of Electricity in Manufacturing (PQEM) to study electricity productivity in the U.S. manufacturing sector. The database contains nearly 2 million customer-level observations (i.e., manufacturing plants) from 1963 to 2000. It allows us to...

Long-term forecasting one can face a situation in which structural relations in an econometric model are not stable. If, in addition, it is impossible to stabilize those relations in the classical way -- by changing variables or the analytical form of the model, then one has to use such unstable...

In the case of long-term forecasting one can face a situation in which structural relations in an econometric model are not stable. If, in addition, it is impossible to stabilize those relations in the classical way -- by changing variables or the analytical form of the model, then one has to...