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Foreign Ownership and Energy Efficiency in Thai Manufacturing Plants
| Author | Eric D. Ramstetter, Archanun Kohpaiboon |
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| Date of Publication | 2012. 10 |
| No. | 2012-12 |
| Download | 281KB |
Contents Introduction
This paper examines energy efficiency differentials between foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) and local plants in Thai manufacturing using data on medium-large plants from the industrial census for 2006. Both descriptive statistics and results of econometric estimation indicate that MNCs had a moderate tendency to use energy relatively efficiently, especially in food products, plastics, basic metals, and non-metallic mineral products. However, differences in energy intensities between MNCs and local plants were not common, suggesting that both groups of plants generally used energy with similar efficiency.