Energy Economics

1979 - 2026

Continuation of Journal of Energy Finance & Development.

Current editor(s): R. S. J. Tol, Beng Ang, Lance Bachmeier, Perry Sadorsky, Ugur Soytas and J. P. Weyant

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Volume 162, issue C, 2026

ESG as a mitigator of oil volatility risk

Ludovico Luce, Elias Demetriades, Alexandros Kontonikas and Athanasios Triantafyllou

Coping collectively: Responses to natural disasters in Africa

Robert Mackay, Astghik Mavisakalyan and Yashar Tarverdi

An explainable machine learning analysis of retail renewable premiums

Yufan Ji, Noah Dormady, Abdollah Shafieezadeh, Kathryn Diana, Matthew Hoyt, Alberto J. Lamadrid L. and Samantha Fox

Systematic risk spillovers of China's traditional energy sector: A digitalization perspective

Miaomiao Tao and David Roubaud

A contingent behavior approach for estimating price elasticities

Richard T. Carson, Jiajun Lu, Thomas Sterner and Dale Whittington

Machine learning for detecting collusion and capacity withholding in wholesale electricity markets

Jeremy Proz, Martin Huber and Ivan Marin

Trading off capacity factors, location, storage, access charges and curtailment for renewable electricity

David Newbery

Private ownership and pricing: Evidence from the Swedish district heating sector

Erik Lundin

The dual burden of energy poverty and climate exposure

Yuetong Zhang

Retraction notice to “Asymmetric impact of oil price on current account balance: Evidence from oil importing countries” [Energy Econ. 123 (2023) 106749]

Lei Chang, Muhammad Mohsin, Zhennan Gao and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary

Demand effects and welfare properties of energy efficiency standards

Junichi Minagawa and Thorsten Upmann

Climate change and credit risk of rural financial institutions: Evidence from China

Peng Peng, Shuo Han and Bingbing Zhang

Decomposing the pollution generation process: Who is to blame?

Aurélie Slechten and Barnabé Walheer

Oil price shocks and private equity versus unicorns: transmission channels and policy implications

Rayenda Brahmana and Adnan Aslam

Expected revenue, risk, and grid impact of Bitcoin mining: A decision-theoretic perspective

Yuting Cai, Ruthav Sadali, Korok Ray and Chao Tian

Just transition? Exploring the climate finance, regulatory quality, trade openness and renewable energy nexus

Lili Wang and Jun Pang

Pumped hydro energy storage: Structural results and solution algorithms

Harun Avci, Ece Cigdem Karakoyun, Ayse Selin Kocaman, Emre Nadar and Parinaz Toufani

Automakers' electrification and R&D strategies under the dual-credit policy

Linyang Sun and Yuyin Yi

Comparative research and analysis on third-party governance based on market effects

Zuliang Lu, Junman Li, Mingsong Li, Zhihui Cao and Zhuran Xiang

Banking on carbon: modeling intertemporal equilibrium in China's rate-based emissions trading system

Limin Du, Huiying Peng and Zheng Wang

Which carbon policies redirect innovation? Comparative evidence on policy instruments and policy mixes in China

Qiang Li, Lidong Chen, Wei Jin and Lin Zhang

Electricity market structure and consequences for wind and solar uptake in the EU-27

Jonas Grafström, Daniel Halvarsson, Theo Herold and Nadja Vinberg

Presidents, prices at the pump, and the difference in perceptions between energy market experts and non-experts

Dylan Brewer and Matthew Oliver

Designing renewable energy auctions for high realization probability — CfD and payment-only auctions

Runxi Wang and Karl-Martin Ehrhart

Regulatory architecture and shipowner investment response under overlapping carbon-pricing regimes

Angelica Kemene and Vangelis Tsioumas

Dual channel mixed frequency forecasting for carbon prices: Informer-BiLSTM deep features embedded in Grey-MIDAS framework

Qi Ding, Xinping Xiao, Lizhong Yang, Zhuang Yang and Zhiwei Xu

Climate risk perception, performance feedback and corporate environmental responsibility

Yan Yang, Jinyu Chen, Wenjun Xie, Ran Liu, Ying Tang and Andrea Moro

Battery storage cannibalization of price spreads in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas

Karl Li

Trading electrons: Predicting DART spread spikes in ISO electricity markets

Emma Hubert, Dimitrios Lolas and Ronnie Sircar

Regional collaborative emission reduction under carbon transfer: A differential game analysis of China's three major urban agglomerations

Ze Yang, Haoning Li, Yuchen Zhang and Yongling Li

Financing the low-carbon transition: Do energy transition investments improve ESG performance?

Kwamie Dunbar and Mohammed Alrashdani

Macroeconomic risk, political instability, and environmental sustainability risk: assessing vulnerabilities among emerging and developing economies

Rexford Abaidoo, Ayodele Julius Alade and Elvis Kwame Agyapong

Fuel taxes without borders: Tax-induced price changes and recorded fuel sales in the European Union

Janez Dolšak

Dynamic interdependencies and shock transmission in mature and emerging energy markets: implications for benchmark formation and regional market integration

Gonzalo H. Soto, Jingzhu Chen, Abdulmuttalip Pilatin and Suja Karthika

Editorial: Energy resilience and geopolitical risks

Zidong An, Anna Alberini and Xuguang Simon Sheng

Administrative division adjustment and ecological effects: Evidence from China

Zhi Li, Jiahui Wang, Kaixi He and Ruting Huang

Volume 161, issue C, 2026

The value of dispatchability and earnings-at-risk of electricity generators in the energy transition

Lin Han, Nino Kordzakhia and Stefan Trück

Reciprocal tariffs will increase global emission: Evidence and numerical simulation results

Chunding Li, Meng Li, Jing Liu and Qiyuan Xu

Higher-order moment connectedness between green cryptocurrencies and energy markets: The role of climate policy uncertainty

HaiFeng Wang, Qin Long, Xi Deng, Bangzhu Zhu and DengDeng Xiao

Are all COPs busted? The role of climate policy events for carbon pricing in compliance and voluntary markets

Patrick Behr, Riccardo Cosenza, Eric Nowak and Papa Orgen

Macroeconomic and social impacts of Nigeria's net-zero development pathways: A hybrid model analysis

Chukwumerije Okereke, Chukwuemeka Emenekwe, Uchenna Nnamani, Nnaemeka Emodi, Ogheneruona Diemuodeke, Kesiena Owebor, Bruno Michoud and Frédéric Ghersi

Navigating uncertainty: Interconnections among carbon futures, geopolitical risk, and US energy markets

Ameet Kumar Banerjee, Ahmet Sensoy and Molla Ramizur Rahman

Subsidies, information, and energy-efficient cookstove adoption – A natural field experiment in rural Ethiopia

Mandy Malan, Maarten Voors, Jörg Ankel-Peters, Selam J. Seje, Lotte Heuberger, Dawud Seid and Abiyot Mitiku

Severe weather and financial (in)stability

Claudia Foroni, Paolo Gelain, Marco Lorusso and Massimiliano Marcellino

From disasters to volatility: Extreme climate events and European financial markets

Alessandra Canepa, Bogdan Dima and Ştefana Maria Dima

European electricity prices in times of multiple crises

Mathias Mier

The effects and financial impacts of wildfire smoke on solar photovoltaic power production in Alberta, Canada

Samantha M. Treacy and Alexandra B. Moura

Public preferences for energy sources in Italy

Peio Alcorta, Petr Mariel, Jürgen Meyerhoff, Giovanni Signorello and Maria De Salvo

Environmental tax shocks and economic growth: Global evidence from local projections

Joao Jalles and Alexandra Campmas

Testing climate NGFS scenarios through the lens of a large-scale ABM for the Italian economy

Michele Catalano, Jacopo Di Domenico and Luca Riccetti

Energy use rights trading policy, energy structure optimization and energy low-carbonization transformation: Evidence from China

Xuanxuan Jin, Xin Huang and Zhengxin Wang

The impact of industrial opt-out from utility sponsored energy efficiency programs

Yu Ma, Gale Boyd, Matthew Doolin and Jennifer Weiss

Beyond money: Homeowners’ preferences for the timing and application support of energy retrofit incentives

Shutong He and Queena K. Qian

Does income moderate the carbon abatement impact of renewable energy? A global analysis of pooled and source-specific renewables, 1996–2023

Muhammad Fahad Khan Israr, Aurora A.C. Teixeira and Isabel Soares

Climate sensitivity of the Energy Security Index in China's prefecture-level cities: Identification and validation of nonlinear impacts from temperature and rainfall

Chien-Chiang Lee and Jinyang Zou

Climate risk meets machine learning: Forecasting energy stock index volatility

Xue Gong, Jiahao Peng and Xiaodan Li

Lighting up the future: The long-term effects of preschool exposure to electrification on female employment in rural China

Weihua Yu, Zengyang Yu and Xin Yao

How customer geographic dispersion drives green innovation? Evidence from Chinese listed firms

Qian Liu, Han Liu and Libin Qin

Persistent and transient inefficiency in China’s provincial energy demand: A four-component stochastic frontier model

Jessica Wai Yin Leung, Puguang Nie, Russell Smyth, Lin Zhang, Quanda Zhang and Xibin Zhang

Carbon footprint of bank loans and bank lending: Global evidence using Bayesian approach

Duy Khanh Le

The impact of energy price shocks on US local industries: A state-level analysis

Minsu Kim and Stephan J. Goetz

Carbon emissions and financial flexibility: International evidence

Chien-Chiang Lee, Chih-Wei Wang, Tsai-Yun Hu, Weizheng Lin and Ai Ngoc Nhan Le

Carbon leakage and carbon tax differentiation: Evidence from a developing economy

Duy Chinh Nguyen and Nhat Duy Lai

Green bonds and the energy transition: From instrumental use to intrinsic value

Peng Zhou, Wenjie Ding, Khelifa Mazouz and Shijie Jin

Asymmetric fuel demand in the UK industrial sectors

Akinsehinwa Sharimakin and Morakinyo O. Adetutu

Bitcoin’s productivity trap

Maximilian Gill, Jona Stinner and Marcel Tyrell

Dynamic investment, subsidies, and welfare effects of rural rooftop photovoltaics: A bilateral decision analysis in rural China

Zenghui Chao, Wenhao Gu, Wenyu Fan, Zhenzhi Wang and Jun Zhang

What drives electric vehicle owners to choose official end-of-life battery recycling channels?

Lei Shi, Xinyan Wang and Meirong Guo

How demand-side climate policy shapes public low-carbon involvement willingness: Evidence from the carbon generalized system of preferences in China

Jing Zhou, Ting Yue, Ying Wang, Claire Murong Cui, Ruyin Long, Wanqi Ma, Shouyang Wang and Le Wen

The shape of U — On the structure of utility from electric vehicle charging

Philipp Theile

Has the U.S. strengthened the resilience of its lithium-ion battery supply chain?

Jianhao Mei and Di Wang

Evidence of firm-level pollution leakage resulting from China's 2013 Clean Air Plan

Chang Liu, Jingrong Wang and David M. Reiner

Strengthening environmental policies to boost energy efficiency: A quantile and sectoral approach for European OECD countries

Guillaume Bourgeois and Camille Massié Gamard

An empirical estimate of the electricity supply curve from market outcomes

Jorge Sánchez Canales, Alice Lixuan Xu, Chiara Fusar Bassini, Lynn H. Kaack and Lion Hirth

Optimal climate and monetary–fiscal policies in a climate-DSGE framework

Lorenzo Forni and Mehrab Kiarsi

Foreign direct investment and greenhouse gas emissions: Evidence across income groups and technological contexts

Narek Mirzoyan, Jennifer Brodmann, Mahmoud Salari and Sunghoon Joo

Thinking machines, shrinking footprints? The impact of Artificial Intelligence on energy consumption in regions

Robert Dehghan, Nils Grashof, Sebastian Schmidt, Alexander Kopka and Michael Woywode

Resilience planning for power systems under deep climate uncertainty

Jiarui Wang, Junqi Liu, Lei Zhu and Gang He

What does ETS do to real-side production activity? Firm-level evidence from Korea

Jinhyeok Yang

Predicting energy ETF prices: The impact of Google Trends and investor attention

Zihui Xia and Xiaotao Zhang

Oil shocks & suicide

Chandler Hubbard, Alexander James and Makenzi Scott

Climate policy diffusion across US states

Mitali Das, Manuel Linsenmeier and Gregor Schwerhoff

Climate justice: Historical accountability vs. international Paretianism

Hyunwoo Hong and Biung-Ghi Ju

Corrigendum to “The impact of financial stress, governance, and geopolitics on Europe's energy transition mineral trade” [Energy Economics, 146 (2025) 108523]

Oleg Mariev and Md. Monirul Islam

From emission trap to mitigation dividend: The nonlinear impact and mechanisms of rural infrastructure on agricultural carbon emissions in China

Yonghao Hu, Xiang Li, Xiaoxiao Li, Kunyang Zhang, Peirun Li, Laping Wu and Nanyan Hu

Self-reliance of supply chain actors under carbon policy: The role of carbon credits

Yang Bai and Ziqi Wang

From green electricity to green fertilizer: Economic and environmental benefits of ammonia diversified utilization in agricultural parks hybrid renewable energy systems

Sijie Wu, Lihui Zhang, Songrui Li, Dandan Pan and Shaoze Li

Public data openness and the greening of firms’ energy consumption mix: evidence from China

Jing Liu, Mingwei Song, Tao Qiao and Qinlin Gong

The impact of environmental regulation on clean innovation: Are there crowding out effects?

Nicola Benatti, Martin Groiss, Petra Kelly and Paloma Lopez-Garcia

Grid connection costs as a barrier to new generation: Evidence from PJM and implications for transmission policy

Sarah Johnston, Yifei Liu and Chenyu Yang

The natural level of oil prices

Daniel Cuzzi and João Issler

Energy flexibility procurement strategy in competitive demand response markets: Dual-channel supply chain perspective

Xinyue Fei, Cheng Lyu and Yibo Ding

How does the renewable energy transition affect energy security and equity? Diverging effects in developing and developed countries

Yiwei Ren, Xunhuan Li and Siyou Xia

Monetary policy rules and environmental fiscal policy in a two-sector DSGE model

Oliver Holtemöller and Alessandro Sardone

Strategic bid response under automated market power mitigation in electricity markets

Chiara Fusar Bassini, Jacqueline Adelowo, Priya L. Donti and Lynn H. Kaack

Electrification's role in carbon mitigation: Heterogeneous, dynamic, and threshold effects across nations

Hongliang Wu, Zheng Li and Heather Zhang

The impact of green intelligence and the role of government subsidies under the dual carbon policy in China

Wei Wang and Weixian Wei

Oil news shocks and the U.S. consumer sentiment and spending

Zeina Alsalman

Artificial intelligence and the energy trilemma: A general-purpose technology perspective

Eduardo Andres Pardo-Piñashca, Muhammad Shahbaz, Ioannis Kyriakou and Shoh-Jakhon Khamdamov

Restoring price signals in electricity markets: A rule-based alternative to cost-plus regulation

Erkan Erdoğdu

Does real-time pricing deliver lower carbon emissions?

Magdalena Strasburger, Tracey Dodd and Tim Nelson

The West-to-East Power Transmission project and corporate green productivity: Evidence from Chinese industrial enterprises

Li Xie and Zhisheng Huang