dc.contributor |
Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia |
dc.contributor |
Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Centre de Recerca en Economia Industrial i Economia Pública |
dc.contributor.author |
Duro Moreno, Juan Antonio |
dc.date.accessioned |
2015-05-18T15:22:20Z |
dc.date.available |
2015-05-18T15:22:20Z |
dc.date.created |
2015 |
dc.date.issued |
2015 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2072/250132 |
dc.format.extent |
44 p. |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
dc.publisher |
Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia |
dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Documents de treball del Departament d'Economia;2015-17 |
dc.rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.rights |
L'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
dc.source |
RECERCAT (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya) |
dc.subject.other |
Energia -- Distribució |
dc.subject.other |
Energia Consum -- Aspectes ambientals |
dc.title |
The International Distribution of Energy Intensities: some synthetic results |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper |
dc.subject.udc |
338 - Situació econòmica. Política econòmica. Gestió, control i planificació de l'economia. Producció. Serveis. Turisme. Preus |
dc.embargo.terms |
cap |
dc.description.abstract |
The paper examines the international distribution of energy intensities as a
conventional proxy indicator of energy efficiency and sustainability in the
consumption of resources, by employing some descriptive tools from the
analysis of inequality and polarization. The analysis specifically focuses on the
following points: firstly, inequalities are evaluated synthetically based on diverse
summary measures and Lorenz curves; secondly, different factorial
decompositions are undertaken that assist in investigating some explanatory
factors (weighting factors, multiplicative factors and decomposition by groups);
and thirdly, an analysis is made of the polarization of intensities when groups of
countries are defined endogenously and exogenously. The results obtained
have significant implications from both academic and political perspectives. |