Energy Economics, Efficiency, and Sustainable Development
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "C: Energy Economics and Policy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 October 2025) | Viewed by 6547
Special Issue Editor
Interests: advanced econometric methodologies to investigate critical issues in environmental and energy economics, intending to inform policy decisions in oil-exporting nations
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The path to carbon-neutral growth is fundamentally economic, shaped by price signals, investment incentives, and institutional frameworks that govern energy production and use. Therefore, this Special Issue focuses on energy economic analysis, inviting research that deepens our understanding of how markets, finance, and policy interact to promote both energy efficiency and sustainable development.
We welcome rigorous empirical and theoretical contributions on the following topics:
- Carbon pricing and green finance: Optimal design of carbon taxes and emissions-trading schemes; efficiency of green bonds, digital finance, and other instruments in mobilising capital for low-carbon investment.
- Market structure, regulation, and institutional reform: Welfare and distributional impacts of energy-market liberalisation; quota allocation rules; interactions between energy subsidies, tax policy, and competitiveness.
- Energy productivity, industrial transformation, and digitalisation: Analysing the effects of industrial structure optimisation, trade openness, and the digital economy on energy intensity and multi-factor productivity using spatial, threshold, or panel techniques.
- Policy uncertainty, ESG, and firm behaviour: How climate policy volatility shapes corporate innovation, financing constraints, and ESG performance; micro/macro linkages between firm-level decisions and aggregate emissions.
- Globalisation, spill-overs, and sustainable growth: Cross-border transmission of energy-technology spill-overs; the role of global value chains in decarbonisation, and macroeconomic implications modelled via DSGE, CGE; or input–output frameworks.
Methodologies of interest include—but are not limited to—panel and spatial econometrics, CGE and DSGE modelling, cost–benefit and welfare analysis, decomposition techniques, and other quantitative tools that place economics at the forefront of the energy transition debate.
By highlighting research that pairs robust economic theory with high-quality data, this Special Issue will equip scholars, policymakers, and market participants with evidence-based insights for crafting efficient, equitable, and resilient pathways towards a sustainable energy future.
Dr. Mohsen Khezri
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- energy economics
- energy efficiency
- sustainable development
- carbon pricing
- green finance
- renewable energy investment
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