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Fuel conserving (and using) production functions
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In this article, the authors compare eight production/cost functions used or potentially useful for exploring how energy efficiency gains affect energy consumption, and suggest practitioners restrict themselves to either the Gallant (Fourier) or the Generalized Leontief/Symmetric Generalized Barnett cost functions as being sufficiently "rebound flexible".About:
This article is published in Energy Economics.The article was published on 2008-09-01. It has received 232 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Production (economics) & Returns to scale.read more
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The rebound effect: an assessment of the evidence for economy-wide energy savings from improved energy efficiency
TL;DR: The UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) has launched a major new report on how "Rebound Effects" can result in energy savings falling short of expectations, thereby threatening the success of UK climate policy.
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Jevons’ Paradox revisited: The evidence for backfire from improved energy efficiency
TL;DR: The evidence in favour of ''Jevons Paradox'' is far from conclusive, but it does suggest that economywide rebound effects are larger than is conventionally assumed and that energy plays a more important role in driving productivity improvements and economic growth than is conventional assumed as mentioned in this paper.
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The impact of increased efficiency in the industrial use of energy: A computable general equilibrium analysis for the United Kingdom ☆
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use an economy-energy-environment computable general equilibrium (CGE) model for the UK to measure the impact of a 5% across the board improvement in the efficiency of energy use in all production sectors.
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Do increases in energy efficiency improve environmental quality and sustainability
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the theoretical conditions under which such effects would occur and explored their likely significance using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Scottish economy and found that a general improvement in energy efficiency in the production sectors of the economy initially produces rebound effects that eventually grow into backfire.
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Negative rebound and disinvestment effects in response to an improvement in energy efficiency in the UK economy
TL;DR: This paper investigated the conditions under which rebound effects may occur in response to increases in energy efficiency in the UK national economy and found that, while there is positive pressure for rebound effects even where (direct and indirect) demands for energy are very price inelastic, this may be partially or wholly offset by negative income, competitiveness and disinvestment effects.
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Capital-labor substitution and economic efficiency
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method to improve the quality of the service provided by the service provider by using the information of the user's interaction with the provider and the provider.
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Energy efficiency and consumption — the rebound effect — a survey
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of some of the relevant literature from the US offers definitions and identifies sources including direct, secondary, and economy-wide sources and concludes that the range of estimates for the size of the rebound effect is very low to moderate.
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Cost and production functions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a mathematical interpretation of the duality between cost and production function, and present a heuristic principle of minimum costs and a Cobb-Douglas production function.