Arbeitspapier

A Spatial Approach to Energy Economics: Theory, Measurement and Empirics

This paper sets out a simple spatial model of energy exploitation to ask how the location and productivity of energy resources may affect the distribution of economic activity around the globe. We combine elements from resource and energy economics into one framework linking the spatial productivity of energy resources (both renewable and non-renewable) to the incentives for economic activity to concentrate. Our theory provides a novel scaling law; a magnification effect; and reveals a complementarity between infrastructure investment and spatially productive energy resources. Our empirical work provides estimates of key magnitudes and reviews empirical work supporting our approach.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4845

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economic History: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries: General, International, or Comparative
Thema
energy economics
agglomeration
economic geography

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Moreno-Cruz, Juan
Taylor, M. Scott
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2014

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Moreno-Cruz, Juan
  • Taylor, M. Scott
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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