This paper examines the price-reversibility of fuel demand for road transport. The analysis is based on an econometric model which utilizes price-decomposition techniques to measure separately the effects of different types of price increases and decreases. The methods proposed allow empirical...

In an earlier article in this Journal, Hausman estimated the implicit discount rate used by air conditioner buyers in the tradeoff between initial cost and energy usage. Similar estimates for refrigerators yield discount rates from 45 percent to 300 percent. This raises questions about consumer...

This paper makes projections of the growth in the car and total vehicle stock to the year 2015, for OECD countries and a number of developing economies, including China, India, and Pakistan. The projections are based on an econometrically estimated model that explains the growth of the...

Using data for 1971-2008, we estimate the effects of changes in price and income on world oil demand, disaggregated by product - transport oil, fuel oil (residual and heating oil), and other oil - for six groups of countries. Most of the demand reductions since 1973-74 were due to fuel-switching...