Despite the global resolves to curtail fossil fuel consumption in favour of clean energies, several countries continue to rely on carbon-intensive sources in meeting their energy demands. Financial constraints and limited knowledge with regard to green energy sources constitute major setbacks to...

This paper evaluates the impact of a policy that was implemented to reduce the energy intensity of firms in some manufacturing sectors in India, on the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of firms and on its components, scale efficiency and technical change. Using plant-level panel data on...

This study was aimed at examining the linkages between corruption, environmental sustainability, and economic performance. It was motivated by the quest to test the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis in Nigerian. The EKC hypothesis explains the nexus between economic...

International trade has created more economic growth opportunities in the agriculture sector. The agricultural sector remains key to the South African economy, with a vibrant international market becoming available as the country's agriculture exports grow. However, the impacts of human-caused...

This paper contains 20 short articles which outline the views of OIES research fellows on some of the key themes for the global energy economy in 2022. Starting with views on the short-term outlook for oil, electricity and gas markets, the articles move on to cover LNG supply and Russian export...

Die Auswirkungen des russischen Angriffskriegs verdeutlichen die Gas-Abhängigkeit der deutschen Volkswirtschaft von Russland. Nichtsdestotrotz bestehen viele unterschiedliche Steuervergünstigungen in Form von Steuernachlässen und -subventionen für den Verbrauch von Gas. 2021 wurden...

Energy efficiency is a key component of climate policy. We study micro and macro rebound effects after the introduction of energy-efficient biomass cookstoves (EEBCs). We develop a model of biomass supply and demand in rural Africa. The impact of EEBCs is empirically explored in Rwanda where we...

Charcoal is an important cooking fuel in urban Africa. In this paper, we estimate the current number of charcoal users and project trends for the coming decades. Charcoal production is often not effectively regulated, and it hence contributes to forest degradation. Moreover, charcoal has adverse...

We exploit the spatial and temporal variation of the staggered introduction of interstate banking deregulation across the U.S. to study the relationship between credit constraints and consumption of durables. Using the American Housing Survey from 1981 to 1989, we link the timing of these...

Financial sector performance is increasingly linked with the transition to renewable energy in the sustainability discourse of developing economies. This paper examines the nexus and implication (s) of financial development on renewable energy consumption in Nigeria (the largest and most p...

Iran economy has high energy intensity and CO2 emission compared to other peer countries. This study adopts the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI-I) method to decompose the total energy intensity changes of the Iranian economy by considering inter-fuel substitution impacts of the economic...

This study examines the causal relationship among technological innovation (TI), environment pollution (EP), energy consumption (EC) and sustainable economic growth (SEG) from selected South Asian economies. In order to identify the causal association between energy growth and nexus of CO2...

This paper investigates how industries' participation in global value chains (GVCs) affects their own energy intensity. Both industries' GVCs position and GVCs participation degree are constructed to describe the characteristics of industries' participation in GVCs. We first provide a...

Electricity demand in Saudi Arabia is undergoing unprecedented changes following the implementation of efficiency measures and energy price reforms. These changes raise uncertainties about the potential trajectory of long-term electricity demand. Thus, this study uses a computable general...

This research assessed that how various sources of energy such as renewable, fossil fuel, electricity generation using oil, and hydroelectric sources can influence the level of output in Pakistan. For this purpose, the ARDL bounds test using annual time series data from 1980 to 2019 is used to...

Pakistan has been in severe energy crises since the year 2004. Major reasons behind energy crises are lack of use of modeling tools in power planning and policy development, dependence on imported energy sources and poor governance. In this paper, electricity demand forecasting for Pakistan up...

This study investigates the evolution of electricity consumption across residential and industrial sectors in Taiwan. By applying the dynamic factor model, we classify the fluctuations in electricity consumption into aggregate, regional, and individual factors, which sheds light on the latent...

It is analyzed for the energy pattern affected by the social matters of the disease trend where the epidemic behavior is significantly important to present the prospect especially for the epidemic of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). In this work, there are three kinds of data for the...

Due to the vast conserves of Bangladesh's natural gas's total demand has increased in the last decade. Natural gas was a primary source of energy and played a vital role in Bangladesh's sectorial consumption and rapid economic development. This study explores the factors influencing natural gas...

This study tries to explore empirically the nature of the link among energy consumption, environmental degradation, trade, industrialization, urbanization, and economic growth concerning the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's economy for a time series of data spanning from 1971 to 2019. To investigate...

In Hungary, regulated energy prices fell by a quarter in 2013-2014 due to a state intervention. The objective of this article is to measure the effects of this change on the Hungarian residential energy consumption and assess the rationale, the policy context and other consequences of such an...