As issues concerning the environment and energy security have become extremely serious,
investment in technological research and the development of China's industrial sector has …

The carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS), which restricts carbon emission permit
allowances, affects firms' decisions on labor and capital use in production. Taking China's …

The prior literature has argued that inter-sectoral supply chain links provide an important
channel for technology diffusion and productivity spillovers across industries, but whether …

The OECD electricity sector has witnessed significant institutional restructuring over the past
three decades. As a consequence, many power generation utilities now act as unregulated …

We investigate the direct role of technological innovation and other factors influencing
industrial energy intensity across 17 EU countries over 1995-2009. We develop an …

With the process of agricultural modernization, energy consumption in China's agriculture
has increased significantly these years. Based on this context, this study tries to investigate …

Previous studies of decomposition of factor inputs have limited their analysis on the
estimation of substitution and output effects. However, this paper develops a two-step …

We study the impact of energy price changes on energy consumption intensity and its
substitution effect on consumption intensity of labor, capital and raw materials, through the …

Previous studies of industry level energy demand have not accounted for the hierarchical
nesting of industries within a system that also adequately allows for country specific …

Accounting for asymmetric price responses while modelling industrial energy demand is
required for a good understanding of the long-run properties of energy demand. This is to …