Five centuries of energy prices

Fouquet, R. and Pearson, Peter J. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2447-406X 2003. Five centuries of energy prices. World Economics 4 (3) , pp. 93-119.

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Abstract

Concerns about rising energy prices tend to occur in times of economic expansion, to disappear in times of recession. A recurring fear is that, in the long run, real energy prices will trend upwards. This paper presents evidence from five hundred years of prices of energy sources for the United Kingdom. Over this time period, there is little support for any general trend of rising fuel prices—and some evidence of significant declines. Using this information on prices and consumer expenditure to weight the series, an ‘average price of energy’ series has been created. Reflecting the substitution away from more scarce fuels (driving prices down) and towards more valuable ones (driving prices up), over more than five hundred years—and albeit with significant long-lived fluctuations—there seems little evidence of a rising long-run trend in the real price of ‘energy’.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Architecture
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NA Architecture T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Publisher:	Economic and Financial Publishing
ISSN:	1468-1838
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Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 10:26
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/40211

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