Niizeki, Takeshi - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2012
1980s, and the model with energy-saving technological progress is able to explain the drop in the energy-GNP ratio well. … investigated: (i) the substitution effect due to changes in the relative price of energy, and (ii) energy-saving technological … progress. The findings are as follows. First, the substitution effect alone is weak and alone cannot account for the decline in …