Energy EconomicsPub Date : 2025-09-13DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108899
Muhammad Anas , Elie Bouri , Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad
{"title":"A comparative bibliometric analysis of five major energy journals","authors":"Muhammad Anas , Elie Bouri , Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad","doi":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108899","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108899","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This bibliometric review compares <em>Energy Economics (EE),</em> a leading journal on the economics and finance of energy<em>,</em> with four major journals of the field, namely Energy <em>Policy</em> (<em>EP</em>), <em>Journal of Environmental Economics and Management</em> (<em>JEEM</em>), <em>Resource and Energy Economics</em> (<em>REE</em>), and <em>The Energy Journal</em> (<em>TEJ</em>), over last 25 years. It first identifies publication trends showing that the citations per article have been declining in all five journals. Secondly, the prominence of Chinese authors and institutions is noted for <em>EE</em> and <em>EP</em>, whereas U.S. based authors and institutions are dominant in the rest of the energy journals under study. Thirdly, an analysis based on keyword co-occurrence and bibliographic coupling reveals that <em>EE</em>'s central themes are related to energy market dynamics, economic growth, and the energy-environment nexus. These themes are shared with <em>TEJ</em> and <em>EP</em>, though the focus of <em>EP</em> is more regulatory and policy oriented, whereas <em>JEEM</em> and <em>REE</em> emphasize ecological economics, biodiversity, and energy conservation. We suggest that these energy journals should expand their coverage to socio-technical transition to foster efforts directed towards achieving both energy and economic sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11665,"journal":{"name":"Energy Economics","volume":"151 ","pages":"Article 108899"},"PeriodicalIF":14.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145099417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distributional effects of the Dutch net-metering scheme for residential solar panels","authors":"Carlotta Masciandaro , Machiel Mulder , Michaela Kesina","doi":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108891","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108891","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The adoption of solar panels by households is pivotal in the transition to an energy system based on renewable sources. A common policy to incentivize this is net metering, under which the electricity costs for households with solar panels are based on the difference between the electricity consumed and that generated by them. Although effective, this policy may have unintended distributional effects for households differing in location, housing type, and solar panel ownership. This paper quantifies these effects for the net-metering scheme in place in The Netherlands since 2004. Using our simulation model and data from 2021, we find that net metering increases the electricity bills of households without solar panels by 14% on average, while it reduces those of households with solar panels by 74% on average, leading the latter to save almost three times as much as needed to break even with their investment in solar panels. We also observe heterogeneous effects across the Dutch provinces and different housing types. Moreover, we show that the distributional effects of net metering can be mitigated through fiscal policy measures. Furthermore, we show that replacing net metering with a net billing scheme that compensates returned generation at around 25% of the average wholesale price of electricity results in a more equitable distribution of effects while maintaining the attractiveness of investing in residential solar. Overall, we provide novel results that contribute to the socially relevant and timely debate on policy designs to foster an equal and just energy transition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11665,"journal":{"name":"Energy Economics","volume":"151 ","pages":"Article 108891"},"PeriodicalIF":14.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145093852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Energy EconomicsPub Date : 2025-09-11DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108887
Debojyoti Das , Sumit Saurav , Anupam Dutta
{"title":"Modelling for insight: Does oil price uncertainty have directional predictability for travel and leisure firms?","authors":"Debojyoti Das , Sumit Saurav , Anupam Dutta","doi":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108887","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108887","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates how uncertainty surrounding crude oil prices affects the stock returns of travel and leisure (T&L) companies. Through a comprehensive analysis, we address three key questions: (a) Does oil price uncertainty predict T&L stock returns directionally? (b) How does varying oil uncertainty affect T&L returns under different market conditions? (c) Is this association consistent across continents? Using the implied oil volatility index (OVX) as a proxy for oil price uncertainty and cross-quantilogram modelling, our study reveals significant impacts of OVX on T&L stock returns, with varying predictability across continents. We find that stock returns are more vulnerable mainly during bearish market conditions, with predictability strength varying over time horizons. Our findings highlight the importance for T&L firms to mitigate oil risk exposure, potentially leveraging emerging technologies like electric vehicles. This study provides insights into the interplay between oil uncertainty and T&L stock returns, with implications for industry practitioners, investors, and policymakers aiming to foster sustainable tourism development amidst oil market volatility due to geopolitics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11665,"journal":{"name":"Energy Economics","volume":"151 ","pages":"Article 108887"},"PeriodicalIF":14.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145093854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Harnessing artificial intelligence for environmental protection: Smart air quality management under oil price fluctuations","authors":"Meng Qin , Xuefeng Shao , Yujie Zhu , Cheng-To Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108892","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108892","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Investigating the capacity of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance air quality represents a critical research area for achieving sustainable development goals. This study employs a mixed-frequency vector autoregression (MF-VAR) model to examine the impact of AI on U.S. carbon emission (CE) from the first week of June 2018 through the fourth week of July 2024, while controlling for oil market dynamics. The MF-VAR impulse responses reveal that AI has an initial positive impact on CE, which subsequently transitions to an adverse effect, and it turns positive again at the fifth or sixth period. The increase-decrease-rebound effect of AI on CE indicates that harnessing AI for cleaner air presents both opportunities and challenges. Furthermore, the analyses based on seasonally adjusted CE, expanded control variables, and an alternative mixed-frequency model confirm the robustness of our empirical analyses. In the context of escalating climate risks, our findings underscore the need for an integrated policy framework that harnesses the potential of AI for cleaner air while mitigating its environmental footprint.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11665,"journal":{"name":"Energy Economics","volume":"151 ","pages":"Article 108892"},"PeriodicalIF":14.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145093853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Energy EconomicsPub Date : 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108894
Zaikun Hou , Huan Chen , Ning Zhang
{"title":"Devil particles: Air pollution and safety liability accidents","authors":"Zaikun Hou , Huan Chen , Ning Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108894","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108894","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study empirically investigates the causal effect of air pollution on safety liability accidents. Based on the China Stock Market & Accounting Research (CSMAR) database, we compiled detailed information on 5873 safety liability accidents that occurred in China between 2000 and 2020. Using thermal inversions as an instrumental variable and applying a two-stage least squares (2SLS) regression model, our analysis reveals a significant positive impact of air pollution on safety liability accidents. Specifically, a doubling of PM<sub>2.5</sub> concentration is associated with approximately a 2.6-fold increase in the probability of safety liability accidents, a 37 % rise in fatalities, and a 51 % increase in total casualties. This effect is particularly pronounced in energy-intensive industries such as coal mining and construction. Further cost estimation suggests that safety liability accidents caused by a doubling of PM<sub>2.5</sub> concentration may result in social and economic losses ranging from approximately 4.92 billion to 10.1 billion USD. Mechanism analysis suggests that air pollution may significantly increase the risk of safety liability accidents through multiple pathways, including prolonged exposure duration, altered production behaviors, immediate environmental disruptions, and adverse effects on workers' physical and mental health.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11665,"journal":{"name":"Energy Economics","volume":"151 ","pages":"Article 108894"},"PeriodicalIF":14.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145099416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Energy EconomicsPub Date : 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108898
Sunjin Kim , SongYi Paik , Doojin Ryu
{"title":"Military alliances, geopolitical risks, and international energy trade","authors":"Sunjin Kim , SongYi Paik , Doojin Ryu","doi":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108898","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108898","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Energy is a fundamental input for economic activity, and stable partnerships with trading nations are crucial for energy supply and economic stability. This study explores the effects of military alliances and geopolitical risks on the trade of multiple energy resources across 42 major countries. Employing a gravity model, we find that military alliances promote the trade of refined oil, coal, gaseous natural gas, and enriched uranium. Geopolitical risks in both importing and exporting countries reduce the trade of refined oil and coal. However, heightened risks in importing countries increase the trade of gaseous natural gas and enriched uranium, whereas risks in exporting countries raise the trade of natural uranium. These findings suggest heterogeneous and resource-specific effects of geopolitical risks on international energy trade.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11665,"journal":{"name":"Energy Economics","volume":"151 ","pages":"Article 108898"},"PeriodicalIF":14.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145059280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Energy EconomicsPub Date : 2025-09-09DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108889
Emmanuel Uche , Nicholas Ngepah , Labani Dey , Narasingha Das
{"title":"How sustainable is the ecological environment in resource-rich African countries in the face of profound resource depletion, energy poverty, and modernization?","authors":"Emmanuel Uche , Nicholas Ngepah , Labani Dey , Narasingha Das","doi":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108889","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108889","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study provides evidence-based explanations for some critical questions that have eluded policymakers in resource-rich African countries. Notably, issues that border on environmental sustainability in these countries remained blurred and underexplored. In this context, we explored the perspectives of two notable environmental performance metrics - load capacity factor(LCF) and natural resource footprints(NRF), since such evidence is lacking in prior evaluations. Essentially, the study considered the influence of diverse categories of resource depletion, including minerals and energy resources. Likewise, the implications of energy poverty and modernization were rectified. The study relied on updated data (2008–2021) and panel estimators sensitive to time evolutions, nonlinearity, residual overlaps, and heterogeneous slopes. The discoveries highlighted that the panel series has a common long-run trend. Both the load capacity curve and environmental Kuznets curve propositions are valid in these countries. The empirical estimates established that resource depletions are negative(positive) LCF(NRF) predictors. Notably, their propensities to cause environmental decay increased at higher quantiles. Energy poverty contributed significantly to the observed environmental decay in these countries. Hence, concerted efforts to end energy poverty will set these countries on the path of ecological vitality. Furthermore, consistent inclinations to modernization would keep these countries on the path of a sustainable future, given their pivotal role in reducing environmental decay. Strategic sustainable resource exploration policies are essential to curtail the harmful effects of natural resource depletion on the environment. Likewise, instituting strong ecological governance could provide relief for environmental challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11665,"journal":{"name":"Energy Economics","volume":"151 ","pages":"Article 108889"},"PeriodicalIF":14.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145093855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Energy EconomicsPub Date : 2025-09-09DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108885
Tian Hao , Lizhuo Zhou , Peng Hu , Tongpu Zhao , Peiqiong Wang
{"title":"From hedge to risk: Nonlinear effects of climate policy uncertainty on corporate biodiversity exposure","authors":"Tian Hao , Lizhuo Zhou , Peng Hu , Tongpu Zhao , Peiqiong Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108885","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108885","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While climate policy uncertainty has been widely studied in relation to corporate environmental practices, its impact on biodiversity exposure remains underexplored. This study addresses this gap by constructing quantitative indices of policy uncertainty and biodiversity exposure using spatial data from Chinese A-share listed firms and nature reserves from 2003 to 2023. We document an inverted U-shaped relationship: at moderate levels of uncertainty, firms tend to increase biodiversity engagement to hedge against potential regulatory risks; at higher levels, however, firms reduce ecological investments, leading to greater biodiversity exposure. Notably, strong internal governance and rigorous external regulation significantly mitigate the rise in biodiversity exposure under high uncertainty by fostering more stable and consistent environmental management. These moderating effects highlight the crucial role of governance and regulatory oversight in shaping corporate response to ecological risks. Our findings provide new empirical evidence on the behavioral dynamics of firms facing ecological risks and offer policy-relevant insights for improving environmental governance in uncertain regulatory environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11665,"journal":{"name":"Energy Economics","volume":"151 ","pages":"Article 108885"},"PeriodicalIF":14.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145119516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of multi-attribute procurement auction for the Korean clean hydrogen power generation auction market","authors":"Jisu Sim , Jihyeok Jung , Deok-Joo Lee , Kiho Yoon","doi":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108871","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108871","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper presents a procurement auction mechanism for the Korean clean hydrogen power generation auction market, addressing the limitations of the existing auction design. We design a multi-attribute auction framework with a Vickrey-score sealed-bid auction rule consisting of scoring, allocation, and payment rules, allowing sellers to bid on both price and non-price attributes. We adopt the hydrogen co-firing rate and capacity factor as non-price attributes to comprehensively evaluate the contributions to greenhouse gas reduction and fuel supply reliability. Through equilibrium analysis, we demonstrate that the proposed mechanism induces a weakly dominant bidding strategy for sellers. This strategy leads to optimal price bids based on their levelized cost of energy (LCOE) and independently determined non-price attributes. Numerical analysis using real-world parameters from the Korean hydrogen industry highlights the importance of carefully structuring the score function. Moreover, the results confirm that the proposed auction mechanism achieves higher market efficiency and a greater share of clean hydrogen in fuel usage compared to single-attribute price-only auctions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11665,"journal":{"name":"Energy Economics","volume":"150 ","pages":"Article 108871"},"PeriodicalIF":14.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145026731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Energy EconomicsPub Date : 2025-09-08DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108881
Nicola Campigotto , Marco Catola , Simone D’Alessandro , Pietro Guarnieri , Lorenzo Spadoni
{"title":"Curbing energy consumption through voluntary quotas: Experimental evidence","authors":"Nicola Campigotto , Marco Catola , Simone D’Alessandro , Pietro Guarnieri , Lorenzo Spadoni","doi":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108881","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108881","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the potential of voluntary consumption quotas as a strategy to address resource supply shortages. The results of an incentivized online experiment are presented in which a Nash demand game was used to model an energy consumption problem. Participants had the option to join an energy conservation program by accepting a consumption quota. Those who accepted the quota traded off their maximum demand for energy in exchange for the certainty that their demand would be met, while those who rejected the quota could demand and possibly earn more but risked suffering from a power outage, in which case they received nothing. Three different quota schemes are examined, and their policy implications are discussed. Our findings suggest that voluntary quotas may lead to a significant decrease in overall demand and contribute to enhancing consumption security.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11665,"journal":{"name":"Energy Economics","volume":"150 ","pages":"Article 108881"},"PeriodicalIF":14.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145026730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}