Deepening decoupling for sustainable development: evidence from threshold model

Zeng, Lanting; A-zhong, YE; Wen, Liping

doi:10.1007/s12053-022-10031-2

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“…Consistently, a lower but technology-intensive proportion of industrial value-added is found a driver of energy decoupling in developed countries (Wu et al, 2018). Yet, some part of the energy intensity reduction witnessed especially in developed countries is attributed to the declining manufacturing in favor of services (Sineviciene et al, 2017;Bogmans et al, 2020), although this link is not stable and mostly depends on the technology level as shown by Zeng (2022).…”

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“…Studies examine the relationship between energy and production, again mostly at the macro level building on the decoupling theory, which looks at the strength and direction of the relationship between economic growth and energy consumption (Payne, 2010;Omri, 2014;Wu et al, 2018;Singh & Vashishtha, 2022;Zeng et al, 2022). Yet, the available evidence lacks consensus with varying coupling, decoupling, and neutrality associations.…”

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“…For the technology factor, the existing research lacks consensus on how to represent technology. The existing studies mostly take one-data technology indicators, such as high-tech production, research-development activities, as well as technology patents and inventions (Habiba et al, 2022;Wang et al, 2022;Zeng et al, 2022). However, these indicators have limitations in reflecting the total factor productivity related to technological change.…”

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“…Many developed countries have recorded significant achievement in decoupling economic growth from energy consumption after the global energy shocks (Blanchard & Riggi, 2013;Bergquist & Söderholm, 2016;Wu et al, 2018;Zeng et al, 2022). Thus, decision-makers in developed countries always need new evidence on the energy intensity consequences of energy prices, as the sectoral energy use impacts of varying energy costs provide a practical policy instrument.…”

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Intersectoral Production–Energy Consumption Linkages and Roles of Multifactor Productivity and Energy Inflation in Developed Countries

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et al. 2023

Fiscaoeconomia

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The vast literature on the relationship between production activities and energy consumption in high-income countries mostly ignores intersectoral energy linkages. Therefore, this study investigates the cross impacts of per capita production in agriculture, industry, and services sectors on per capita energy consumption in these sectors, as well as the transport sector, using a panel dataset covering 19 developed countries’ 1990-2019 period. By also controlling the changes in multifactor productivity, energy prices, and population indicators, the study applies the CS-ARDL (cross-sectionally augmented autoregressive distributed lag) estimation procedure. The short-run and long-run estimations agreeably reveal the following key findings. Agricultural energy consumption is affected by neither its own production nor that of other sectors. Industrial energy consumption is positively associated with its own production but negatively associated with service production. Service energy consumption is increased by growing industrial production. Transport energy consumption is positively associated with agricultural and service production. Multifactor productivity change, which refers to technological progress, is positively associated with energy consumption in all sectors. Higher energy inflation decreases transport energy consumption but increases energy consumption in the industrial and services sectors. The study further discusses why and how developed countries should adjust overall energy efficiency targets to intersectoral energy linkages.

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