Fuel conserving (and using) production functions

By H. Saunders. 2008

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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The rebound effect: an assessment of the evidence for economy-wide energy savings from improved energy efficiency (2007, methodology): “An alternative and more flexible functional form (the ‘translog’) that is widely used in empirical studies is also found to lead to backfire once standard restrictions are imposed on the parameter values to ensure that the behaviour of the function is consistent with economic theory (Saunders, 2007)”
The economy-wide rebound effect from improved energy efficiency in Swedish industries–A general equilibrium analysis (2015, background): “Thus, it is reasonable to expect that the rebound effect is higher in the long-term (Wei, 2007 and Saunders, 2008).”
A new approach to measuring the rebound effect associated to energy efficiency improvements: An application to the US residential energy demand (2015, methodology): “6 For a more extended definition and some examples about this counterintuitive phenomenon see Saunders (2008). equation (4), we can then conclude that any energy demand frontier model that includes an inefficiency term as an explanatory variable implicitly provides a direct measure of the rebound…”
Solid-state lighting: an energy-economics perspective (2010, background): “Given a similar empirical finding (analogous to equation (1)) for χ , it could be shown that the two factors of production must then have unity elasticity of substitution between them11, and that only a Cobb–Douglas production would be consistent with our empirical findings (Saunders 2009).”
Consumer End-Use Energy Efficiency and Rebound Effects (2014, background): “As first articulated by Saunders, the KBP stipulates that, “with fixed real energy price, energy efficiency gains will increase energy consumption above what it would be without these gains” (13, p. 135).”
The macroeconomic rebound effect and the world economy (2009, methodology): “…models of economic growth, computable general equilibrium models and alternative models for policy evaluation which were used to evaluate the rebound effect (Barker et al. 2007; Grepperud and Rasmussen 2004; Saunders 2008; Small and Van Dender 2007; Sorrell 2007; Sorrell et al. 2009; Wei 2006).”
Jevons’ Paradox revisited: The evidence for backfire from improved energy efficiency (2009, methodology): “Since technical change typically improves the productivity of several inputs simultaneously, these models suggest that most forms of technical change will increase overall energy consumption compared to a scenario in which such improvements are not made.”
A general equilibrium view of global rebound effects (2010, background): “This is different from previous theoretical studies (e.g. Saunders, 2008; Wei, 2007), where energy can come from a production process, e.g. extracted fossil fuels.”