Based on firm level data in the French manufacturing sector, we find that firms adapt quickly, strongly and through multiple channels to energy shocks, even though electricity and gas bills represent a very small share of their total costs. Over the period 1996-2019, faced with an idiosyncratic...

Die Industrie, die privaten Haushalte und der Verkehrssektor sind in Deutschland die wichtigsten Endverbraucher von Energie. Mehr als ein Viertel der Energiemenge in Deutschland wird in der Industrieproduktion eingesetzt. Um die monatliche Entwicklung der Industrieproduktion im Bereich der...

This study provides an approach to the energy crisis between Russia and the Ukraine in 2009, in the context of a strategy developed by the Russian state in order to establish its control over the Ukrainian energy transit infrastructure. I present the background of this crisis, as well as of the...

This working paper evaluates the prospects for China’s energy supply and its impact on economic growth between 2008 and 2050. After considering China’s domestic potential of coal, oil, and gas production, the potential of energy imports from the rest of the world, as well as potential...

The main objective of this paper is the analysis of the electricity sector in Brazil and the whole restructuring process occurred since the creation of the Electricity National Agency (ANEEL). It is discussed if the regulation of the electricity sector in Brazil brought benefits to the...

Current planning and policymaking have not been very successful in terms of target-setting and policy prescriptions because of the seemingly implicit treatment of the energy factor in the formulation of models for policy and planning. This paper reports the results of an econometric modeling...