Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/180101 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Citation: 
[Journal:] Baltic Journal of Economics [ISSN:] 2334-4385 [Volume:] 17 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Taylor & Francis [Place:] London [Year:] 2017 [Pages:] 78-102
Publisher: 
Taylor & Francis, London
Abstract: 
The Baltic Sea states and the European Commission initiated the intergovernmental Baltic Sea Energy Cooperation (BASREC) in 1998 and established it the following year. The aim of this study is to examine and compare the energy productivity change, energy technical change, and energy efficiency change in Baltic Sea states and non-Baltic Sea states using the Malmquist-DEA approach. The main results indicate that energy productivity in the Baltic Sea states has been improved, with this mainly caused by energy technology progression; however, the improvement in energy efficiency is not so obvious. In addition, the subsample includes 10 former communist countries, showing that the source of their energy productivity change not only comes from energy technical change, but also energy efficiency changes. In other words, the catching up effect in the 10 former communist countries is more obvious than that in the Baltic Sea states.
Subjects: 
Baltic Sea states
Malmquist-DEA approach
BASREC
EU
JEL: 
C52
Q43
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Document Type: 
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