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We propose a novel spatial panel quantile regression method to investigate the impact of crude oil and carbon prices and neighboring fuel prices on regional retail fuel prices in the EU markets. This approach captures the changing price shock propagation and cross-market dependency of retail...
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This volume was prepared by Julian Dieler while he was working with the Center for Energy, Climate and exhaustible Resources at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. At the latest since the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 climate policies are permanently on the international policy...
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This article uses a rich panel dataset of 1,741 Swiss households in order to examine the effect of fuel prices on … household car travel demand. Elasticities are estimated for different segments of households, based on their socio-economic and … segments of households. Lower-income households, households living in urban areas, drivers in retirement age and drivers with …
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This study aims to estimate electricity demand functions in Japan's industrial and commercial sectors. We adopt data from the Energy Consumption Statistics by Prefecture by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan, to delineate the demand between the industrial and commercial sector....
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This paper analyzes the relationship between factor substitutability and the energy intensity of manufacturing firms. Specifically, we compare the degree of substitutability between the input factors capital, labor, energy, and material for firms with low, medium, and high energy cost shares...
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This volume was prepared by Julian Dieler while he was working with the Center for Energy, Climate and exhaustible Resources at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. At the latest since the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 climate policies are permanently on the international policy...
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It is widely accepted that the costs of under-pricing energy are large, whether in advanced or developing countries. This paper explores how large these costs can be by focussing on the size of the external effects that energy subsidies in particular generate in two important sectors –...
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This paper describes interfuel substitution for coal, oil, gas and electricity at a level of 12 activities. We use cross section data in each activity for appliance technologies (heating/cooling, steam generation, industrial processes, motors and lighting/computing) to estimate fuel input demand...
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This paper present a different perspective in the debate on energy efficiency and energy demand by classifying the impact of efficiency measures into direct and indirect effect (rebound effect). It examines the direct effect of energy efficient R&D capital on energy demand. Using a sample of...
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