Publications

Energy Productivity in the GCC: Evidence From an International Kuznets Curve Analysis

Marzio Galeotti, Nicholas Howarth, Alessandro Lanza

This paper explores energy productivity trends at a national level for the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and puts them in an international context. This analysis can be used as part of an evidence base for setting nationally…

Galeotti, Marzio

Howarth, Nicholas

Lanza, Alessandro

Energy Productivity as a New Growth Model for GCC Countries

Marzio Galeotti, Nicholas Howarth, Alessandro Lanza

Following the collapse in oil prices, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have intensified efforts to find a new growth model which increases the welfare of their citizens, while reducing exposure to volatile energy markets. This paper argues that placing energy…

Galeotti, Marzio

Howarth, Nicholas

Lanza, Alessandro

Investing for Energy Productivity in the GCC – Financing the Transition

Steven Fawkes, Nicholas Howarth, Moncef Krarti, Padu Padmanabhan

An unprecedented infrastructure investment boom occurred in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in the first part of the 21st century. Strong public capital spending supported by high energy prices provided governments with an opportunity to accelerate economic diversification and infrastructure…

Fawkes, Steven

Howarth, Nicholas

Krarti, Moncef

Padmanabhan, Padu

The implications of carbon dioxide and methane exchange for the heavy mitigation RCP2.6 scenario under two metrics

Environmental Science and Policy

Nicholas Howarth

Managing China’s energy productivity potential: what lessons for policy makers

Nicholas Howarth

Maximizing the economic welfare extracted from the energy system is a key priority for all governments. This can be measured by a country’s energy productivity. Perhaps nowhere else in the world is this issue more salient than in China. China…

Howarth, Nicholas

Banning the bulb: Institutional evolution and the phased ban of incandescent lighting in Germany

Energy Policy

Much academic attention has been directed at analysing energy efficiency investments through the lens of ‘behavioural failure’. These studies have challenged the neoclassical framing of regulation which emphasises the efficiency benefits of price based policy, underpinned by the notion of…

Nicholas Howarth

Straded Assets in Agriculture: Protecting value from environment-related risks

Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment Stranded Assets Program, University of Oxford

Nicholas Howarth

Institutional investors and green infrastructure investments

OECD Working Papers on Insurance and Private Pensions, OECD Publishing

Nicholas Howarth

Clean energy technology and the role of non-carbon price-based policy: An evolutionary economics perspective

European Planning Studies

Nicholas Howarth

Carbon Markets: An international business guide

Earthscan

Nicholas Howarth