Elsevier

Energy Economics

Volume 9, Issue 2, April 1987, Pages 66-72
Energy Economics

Regional energy input prices in Canadian manufacturing: An index number approach

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Abstract

Index number analysis is used to investigate the intertemporal and interspatial price behaviour of energy inputs in the manufacturing sector in the 10 provinces of Canada. The indices which are used are ones with desirable characteristics from the viewpoint of either descriptive index number theory or the economic theory of index numbers.

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The authors are with the faculty of Business and the Department of Economics, respectively, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4L8.

The authors wish to acknowledge the excellent computing assistance of Maria Berruti, and the helpful comments of P.J. George, M.L. Kliman and Dean Mountain.

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