Published January 2005 | Version v1
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The determinants of aggregate energy use in West Germany. Factor substitution, technological change, and trade

Creators

  • 1. Department of Economics, University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg (Germany)
  • 2. Department of Economics, University of Rostock, 18057 Rostock (Germany)

Description

This paper examines the determinants of production-related energy use in West Germany over the period 1976-1994. The approach is to estimate a system of share equations for energy, capital, low-skilled labor, high-skilled labor, and materials in the West German production sector, taking account of biased technological change and increasing trade orientation. While technological change is found to be energy saving, increased openness is energy using, i.e., tends to increase the energy share. Factor substitution, biased technological change, and trade contribute to the year-to-year volatility of energy intensity in the proportion 66:30:4. The results are robust across several specifications examined

Availability note (English)

Available from doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2004.11.004

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.eneco.2004.11.004;

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
8 p.

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
Netherlands
INIS RN
36114836
Subject category
S29: ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
CAPITAL; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY; MATERIALS; PRODUCTION; TECHNOLOGY IMPACTS; TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS; TRADE; WORK
Descriptors DEC
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EUROPE; MATHEMATICS; STATISTICS; WESTERN EUROPE

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Notes
Published in Energy Economics, ISSN 0140-9883, CODEN: EECODR, v. 27(1)