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Title: Energy's role in competitiveness: Context and strategy

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7047818· OSTI ID:7047818

This study of competitiveness has three objectives. The first objective is to explain how macroeconomic and microeconomic factors can affect structural change in the US economy and how energy is linked to these factors. The second objective is to provide an explanation of how many individual decision makers, in responding to higher energy prices, have changed the structure of the economy. This structural change, and the effect it has had on energy use, is estimated for the US economy. A major component of these changes results from changes in US trade with other countries, which gives rise to the third objective. The third objective is to develop a research design that will allow a better understanding of the role that energy plays in the competitiveness of goods in world trade. 30 refs., 11 figs., 5 tabs.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE/MA
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
7047818
Report Number(s):
PNL-6880; ON: DE90009519
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English