Does Trade Liberalization Increase

National  Energy Use?

 

Matthew A. Cole*

 

Abstract:

 

This paper utilises the theoretical principles of Antweiler et al. (2001) to estimate empirically the linkages between trade liberalization and energy use. Focusing on scale, technique and composition effects, results suggest that trade will increase energy use for the mean country in the sample.

 

 

 

 

 

* Department of Economics, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK, Tel. 44 121 414 6639, Fax. 44 121 414 7377, E-mail: m.a.cole@bham.ac.uk