Energy efficiency in the manufacturing sector of the OECD: Analysis of price elasticities

Steven Parker and Brantley Liddle

Energy Economics, 2016, vol. 58, issue C, 38-45

Abstract: We examine the role prices have on energy efficiency in the OECD manufacturing sector between 1980 and 2009. We employ a two-step procedure; first, we decompose manufacturing energy intensity change into two driving effects—efficiency and structural change. The second step uses panel time series regression techniques to estimate the impacts of prices on the effects driving manufacturing energy intensity. The advantage of using these techniques is that they account for heterogeneity and cross-section dependence in the data, something recent energy intensity research has emphasised. The results from this decomposition support existing findings that efficiency is the major driver for observed reduction in energy intensity. Further, the second stage results indicate that rising prices improve efficiency; importantly these effects vary across countries.

Keywords: Manufacturing energy efficiency; Structural change; Index number decomposition; Heterogeneous panel methods; Cross-sectional dependence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 Q41 Q43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2016.06.003

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