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In this review we assess both the reasons/hypotheses for why GDP and price elasticities of energy/electricity demand might change over time, and the evidence from papers that have addressed that issue. We consider papers that have used parametric methods (e.g., endogenous or exogenous breaks,...
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We focus on three environmental impacts particularly influenced by population age-structure — carbon emissions from transport and residential energy and electricity consumption — as well as aggregate carbon emissions for a panel of developed countries, and take as our starting point the...
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This paper tests for a carbon Kuznets curve (CKC) by examining the carbon emissions per capita-GDP per capita relationship individually, for 23 OECD countries over 1950-2010 using a reduced-form, linear model that allows for multiple endogenously determined breaks. This approach addresses...
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Convergence in electricity intensity is analyzed among a sample of IEA countries. Sigma-convergence (the narrowing of the distribution) and to a lesser degree gamma-convergence (movement within the distribution) are detected. However, electricity intensity convergence is less dramatic than...
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This paper focuses on several different measures of OECD countries’ energy intensity levels, plots their trends, applies a number of techniques to determine whether those intensities are converging, explores the importance of that convergence, and estimates the future steady-state or long-run...
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World convergence in energy intensity is revisited using two new large data sets: a 111-country sample spanning 1971-2006, and a 134-country sample spanning 1990-2006. Both data sets confirm continued convergence. However, the larger data set, which adds the former Soviet Union republics and...
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This review summarizes the evidence from cross-country, macro-level studies on the way demographic factors and processes — specifically, population, age structure, household size, urbanization, and population density — influence carbon emissions and energy consumption. Analyses employing...
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This study measures the response of gasoline consumption to improved vehicle fuel efficiency (miles per gallon). Although an inverse relationship exists, the percentage decline is always less than the percentage efficiency improvement. As usually measured by past researchers, the long-run...
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This study conducts a selective review of various estimates for energy demand responses. It emphasizes recent empirical studies that include trends from studies published after 2000. Emphasis is placed on the five major emerging or transitional economies in Brazil, China, India, Mexico and...
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