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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/1721.1/5545| Title: | Explaining Long-Run Changes in the Energy Intensity of the U.S. Economy |
| Issue Date: | 9-Oct-2013 |
| Publisher: | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change |
| Description: | Recent events have revived interest in explaining the long-run changes in the energy intensity of the U.S. economy. We use a KLEM dataset for 35 industries over 39 years to decompose changes in the aggregate energy-GDP ratio into shifts in sectoral composition (structural change) and adjustments in the energy demand of individual industries (intensity change). We find that although structural change offsets a rise in sectoral energy intensities from 1960 until the mid-1970s, after 1980 the change in the industrial mix has little impact and the average sectoral energy intensity experiences decline. Then, we use these data to econometrically estimate the influence on within-industry changes in energy intensity of price-induced substitution of variable inputs, shifts in the composition of capital and embodied and disembodied technical progress. Our results suggest that innovations embodied in information technology and electrical equipment capital stocks played a key role in energy intensityâ s long-run decline. Abstract in HTML and technical report in PDF available on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change website (http://mit.edu/globalchange/www/). U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (BER) Grant No. DE-FO2-02ER63484 |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/1721 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://mit.edu/globalchange/www/abstracts.html#a116 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5545 Report no. 116 |
| Appears in Collections: | MIT Items |
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