Data for: Productive energy use and economic growth: Energy, physical and human capital relationships

Abstract of associated article: Ecological and biophysical economists and historians of economics consider that availability of energy inputs has played a key role in driving economic growth in industrialized and emerging economies. Nevertheless, being very sensitive to structural characteristics or stages of economic development, the strength of this link differs among countries. This study analyzes the role of energy in economic growth from a geographical standpoint by estimating an aggregate translog production function, with human and physical capital and productive energy use as production factors, within a growth framework. Panel data of 38 major countries for the period from 1995 to 2007 were used. The strength of the link between energy and growth is analyzed for the whole sample and the following relevant country groups: OECD, BRIC, NAFTA, East Asian, East European and EU15 countries. Obtained results show that the calculated productivity elasticities with respect to energy use are positive for all country groups. BRIC countries have higher elasticities, around 0.37, and EU15 countries have lower elasticities, around 0.12. Weak substitutability relationships between energy and capital are observed for all groups, except for BRIC and East European countries, which show complementarity relationships.

关联文章摘要：生态与生物物理经济学家，以及经济史学家认为，能源输入的可用性在推动工业化及新兴经济体经济增长中扮演了关键角色。然而，这一联系的力量对结构性特征或经济发展阶段极为敏感，各国之间的差异显著。本研究从地理视角出发，通过估算包含人力和物质资本以及生产性能源消耗作为生产要素的总体对数生产函数，在增长框架内分析能源在经济增长中的作用。使用了1995年至2007年间38个主要国家的面板数据。对整个样本以及以下相关国家群体（经合组织国家、金砖国家、北美自由贸易协定国家、东亚国家、东欧国家和欧盟15国）的能源与增长之间的联系强度进行了分析。所得结果表明，与能源消耗相关的计算生产率弹性对所有国家群体均为正值。金砖国家的弹性较高，约为0.37，而欧盟15国的弹性较低，约为0.12。在所有群体中，除了金砖国家和东欧国家，能源与资本之间的替代关系较弱，这两者表现出互补关系。