energy-economics

A residential energy demand system for Spain Labandeira Villot, Xavier; Labeaga, José María; Rodriguez, Miguel A. Sharp price fluctuations and increasing environmental and distributional concerns, among other issues, have led to a renewed academic interest in energy demand. In this paper we estimate, for the first time in Spain, an energy demand system with household microdata. In doing so, we ta…

Gasoline prices are way up and diesel up even more. Natural gas prices are spiking in most of the world, but unchanged in the US. Economics helps explain why. The … Continue Reading The Energy Economics of War

A new book explores the precipitous decline. One of the most remarkable trends in energy economics over the last 50 years is the tremendous reduction in solar photovoltaic (PV) prices. … Continue Reading What Drove Solar PV Price Reductions?

Together with partners from German utility and CEEPR Associate Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW), the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Stiftung Energie & Klimaschutz, MIT CEEPR organized a conference on September 8th and 9th, 2016 to discuss analytical tools and decision making strategies for dealing with uncertainty in energy policy, economics and management. The post Predicting the Unpre…

An analysis on Energy Economics attributing efficiency changes to either changes in technology or changes in the structure of the