| Περίληψη: | Improved energy and environmental efficiency is a key concern of the
European Union for the reduction of emissions, improving energy
security and economic development. The aim of this thesis is the
calculation at sectoral level three different performance measures. The
first relates to the technical efficiency, the second environmental
effectiveness and the third energy efficiency. In a second step, using
statistical techniques will be a descriptive analysis of praying and then
identified and presented possible links between such measures.
The measurement of environmental efficiency and the identification of
its determinants are important in order to evaluate existing
environmental policies and design new policies. Since the end of the
1980s, a large and growing literature has developed on the application
of frontier techniques - particularly Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) - to measuring environmental
efficiency.
Energy efficiency measures reduce the energy needed to produce the
same quantity of goods and services or increase the output whilst
keeping energy consumption constant. In addition to this direct
contribution to improved competitiveness, energy efficiency measures
provide indirect or ‘non-energy benefits’ that can increase the level of
productivity. Both direct and indirect energy efficiency benefits
therefore affect competitiveness.
A commonly used measure in this context is the energy intensity of an
economy which measures the energy consumption of an economy and
its energy efficiency; it is the ratio between gross inland consumption
of energy and gross domestic product.
For this thesis will be used panel data. The research part, preceded by
the theoretical foundation of the measures and the review of the
existing literature.
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