| Abstrakt: |
The energy intensity of East-Central Europe strongly improved in the last two decades and it has two main reasons. The first one is that after the change of regime the heavy industry collapsed, and there was a shift from agriculture towards the service sector. The second is the technological development of the economy, which increased the energy efficiency of the economic sectors. The subject of this paper is to give a comprehensive analysis and decompose both the energy intensity of the industrial sector and the aggregate energy intensity of the economy in East-Central Europe (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland and Hungary) between 1990 and 2010. We study how the aggregate energy intensity is influenced by the structural and the intensity effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
