Sind hohe Energiepreise volkswirtschaftlich ungesund?
The study indicates further that national government have considerable leeway for increasing energy prices without necessarily incurring a negative influence on the export sector, or on the economy as a whole. Countries with high energy prices show growth rates, export/import balances and balance of payments which are no worse than that of countries with low energy prices. Furthermore, they have a clearly superior energy productivity and are often leaders in innovation.
Even in countries with a large heavy-industry sector (The Federal Republic of Germany and Japan) one finds that energy carriers are used more efficiently when price incentives are such that efforts for energy saving are worthwhile for producers and consumers.
A higher energy productivity is advantageous for the environment, reduces the dependence on energy imports and can at least partly improve the rate of innovations. – Part of this article was published in English in the magazine The African Sun (August 1993), edited by the Solar Energy Society of Southem Africa, c/o University of Pretoria, SA.
Keywords: ECONOMIC PROSPERITY; EFFLUENT TAXES; ENERGY POLICY; INTERNALIZATION OF EXTERNAL COSTS; REGULATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY; TAXES
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 November 1993
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