Modeling international trends in energy efficiency

Energy EconomicsPublished 23 March 2012

David I. Stern

DOI10.1016/j.eneco.2012.03.009

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Citations215

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SJR score3.92

SNIP2.72

Abstract

I use a stochastic production frontier to model energy efficiency trends in 85 countries over a 37-year period. Differences in energy efficiency across countries are modeled as a stochastic function of explanatory variables and I estimate the model using

Keywords

Economics, Econometrics and FinanceEnergy