Abstract
The energy transition will have profound and varying effects across the globe. We provide an evidence-based qualitative analysis and assess how clean technologies are evolving – mainly wind, solar and electric vehicles – and the challenges and opportunities the transition poses for fossil fuel and metals and minerals producers in the short and long term. We describe the likely macroeconomic consequences of the energy transition and identify the countries that are most positively and negatively exposed. A small number of fossil fuel-producing countries are likely to be severely hit. Meanwhile, a concentrated group of minerals producers should experience large net benefits. Fuel importers – that is, most of the world – should benefit to varying degrees.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Editorial: Productivity Growth in the Age of AI
- Policy Papers (No Special Focus)
- Inflation and Fiscal Policy: Is There a Threshold Effect in the Fiscal Reaction Function?
- Whither the Walking Dead? The Consequences of Artificial Intelligence for Zombie Firms
- The Energy Transition and Its Macroeconomic Effects
- The Potential and Distributional Effects of CBAM Revenues as a New EU Own Resource
- Will Geopolitics Accelerate China’s Drive Towards De-Dollarization?
- The Political Economy of Academic Freedom
- Policy Forum: Productivity Growth in the Age of AI
- Macroeconomic Productivity Effects of Artificial Intelligence
- New Technologies: End of Work or Structural Change?
- The AI Revolution: A New Paradigm of Economic Order
- The Interplay of Humans, Technology, and Organizations in Realizing AI’s Productivity Promise
- How Can Artificial Intelligence Transform Asset Management?
- Is the EU’s AI Act Merely a Distraction from Europe’s Productivity Problem?
- AI in Europe – Is Regulation the Answer to Being a Laggard?