Delving into Liberia's energy economy: technical change, inter-factor and inter-fuel substitution

PK Wesseh Jr, B Lin, MO Appiah - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2013 - Elsevier
The industrial energy mix of Liberia is dominated by petroleum products. This has generated
serious environmental problems, contributing immensely to CO2 emissions and other …

Energy substitution effect on transport sector of Pakistan based on trans-log production function

B Lin, I Ahmad - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Transport sector, because of the growing industrialization and urbanization of Pakistan, is
one of fastest growing sector in terms of output, energy consumption and CO 2 emission. Its …

Energy substitution effect on transport sector of Pakistan: A trans-log production function approach

B Lin, MY Raza - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
Transport sector of Pakistan is one of the highest fossil fuel consumption and carbon dioxide
(CO 2) emission sector. As a key user of fossil fuel energy, Pakistan's transport sector has …

Estimates of inter-fuel substitution possibilities in Chinese chemical industry

B Lin, PK Wesseh Jr - Energy economics, 2013 - Elsevier
The chemical sector is a key driver of China's remarkable growth record and accounts for
about 10% of the country's GDP. This has made the industry energy-intensive and …

Cleaner production of Pakistan's chemical industry: Perspectives of energy conservation and emissions reduction

MY Raza, B Lin, X Liu - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
The chemical industry is one of the highest energy-consuming and CO 2 (carbon dioxide)
emitting sectors in Pakistan. It is important to understand and identify ways to improve the …

Brazilian energy efficiency and energy substitution: a road to cleaner national energy system

B Lin, I Ankrah, SA Manu - Journal of cleaner production, 2017 - Elsevier
Recognizing the need to increase energy efficiency across various sectors of the economy,
the Brazilian government through the national energy efficiency plan (adopted in 2011) …

Ghanaian energy economy: Inter-production factors and energy substitution

B Lin, P Atsagli, KE Dogah - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Industries in Ghana depend highly on petroleum to fuel their operations which has brought
immerse environmental threat from greenhouse emission gas (GHG). This study tried to …

Estimating the environmental impact of land and production decisions with multivariate selection rules and panel data

A Lacroix, A Thomas - American Journal of Agricultural …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We propose an estimation procedure dealing with multivariate selection and dynamics in
land choice and unobserved heterogeneity in structural and crop selection equations. The …

Inter-fuel substitution possibilities in South Africa: A translog production function approach

B Lin, P Atsagli - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
This study applies the translog production function to investigate technical change and
energy substitution possibilities among petroleum, coal and electricity over the period 1980 …

Modeling corners, kinks, and jumps in crop acreage choices: impacts of the EU support to protein crops

OP Koutchadé, A Carpentier… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Null crop acreages raise pervasive issues when modeling acreage choices with farm data.
We revisit these issues and emphasize that null acreage choices arise not only due to …