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Lester C. Hunt is affiliated with the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom. Their research spans diverse areas at the intersection of economics, environmental science, and energy. The scholar's work primarily focuses on topics such as energy, environment, and economic growth; energy, environment, and transportation policies; and environmental impact and sustainability.

Their academic output includes a number of recent papers published in recognized journals. Notable works include Energy Demand and Energy Efficiency in Developing Countries (2023) published in Energies, Recession and Recovery from the Pandemic (2023) in Research in Globalization, and The Drivers of Renewable Energy: A Global Empirical Analysis of Developed and Developing Countries (2024) also in Energies. They have also contributed to broader environmental economic discussions, such as the 2023 paper Better to Grow or Better to Improve? Measuring Environmental Efficiency in OECD Countries with a Stochastic Environmental Kuznets Frontier (SEKF) in Energy Economics.

The scholar's research intersects with several fields and subfields:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Environmental Science
  • Energy

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Pollution
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Marketing

Lester C. Hunt collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Fakhri Hasanov
  • Amro M. Elshurafa
  • Oleg Badunenko
  • Marzio Galeotti
  • Paraskevas Kipouros

Their publication venues reflect a focus on interdisciplinary and applied research related to energy and the environment, with frequent papers appearing in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Energies
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Research in Globalization
  • Energy Strategy Reviews

Lester C. Hunt's work addresses environmental efficiency, renewable energy development, and energy demand analysis. Their research includes empirical and theoretical approaches to understanding the economic and environmental impacts of energy policies. This is demonstrated by their interest in climate change policy and economics, energy efficiency and management, and economic and environmental valuation.

Best Publications

  • Does energy consumption cause economic growth?: Evidence from a systematic study of over 100 countries

    Jaruwan Chontanawat;Lester C. Hunt;Richard Pierse

  • Energy demand and energy efficiency in the OECD countries: A stochastic demand frontier approach

    Massimo Filippini;Lester C. Hunt

  • US residential energy demand and energy efficiency: A stochastic demand frontier approach

    Massimo Filippini;Massimo Filippini;Lester Charles Hunt

  • Electricity demand for Sri lanka: A time series analysis

    Himanshu A. Amarawickrama;Himanshu A. Amarawickrama;Lester C. Hunt

  • Underlying trends and seasonality in UK energy demand: a sectoral analysis

    Lester C Hunt;Guy Judge;Yasushi Ninomiya

  • An empirical analysis of energy demand in Namibia

    G. De Vita;K. Endresen;L.C. Hunt

  • Impact of energy policy instruments on the estimated level of underlying energy efficiency in the EU residential sector

    Massimo Filippini;Massimo Filippini;Lester C. Hunt;Jelena Zorić

  • Causality between Energy Consumption and GDP: Evidence from 30 OECD and 78 Non-OECD Countries

    Jaruwan Chontanawat;Lester C Hunt;Richard Pierse

  • Industrial electricity demand for Turkey: A structural time series analysis

    Zafer Dilaver;Lester C. Hunt

  • Measurement of energy efficiency based on economic foundations

    Massimo Filippini;Massimo Filippini;Lester C. Hunt

  • Modelling OECD industrial energy demand: Asymmetric price responses and energy-saving technical change

    Olutomi I. Adeyemi;Lester C. Hunt

  • Voluntary disclosure, greenhouse gas emissions and business performance: assessing the first decade of reporting

    David Clive Broadstock;Alan Collins;Alan Collins;Lester C. Hunt;Konstantinos Vergos

  • Modelling and forecasting Turkish residential electricity demand

    Zafer Dilaver;Lester C Hunt

  • International Handbook on the Economics of Energy

    Joanne Evans;Lester C. Hunt

  • Fuel tourism in border regions: The case of Switzerland

    Silvia Banfi;Silvia Banfi;Massimo Filippini;Massimo Filippini;Lester C. Hunt

  • PRIVATISATION AND EFFICIENCY IN THE UK WATER INDUSTRY: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS*

    Lester C. Hunt;Edward L. Lynk

  • Modelling residential electricity demand in the GCC countries

    Tarek N. Atalla;Lester C. Hunt

  • Estimating underlying energy demand trends using UK annual data

    John Dimitropoulos;Lester C. Hunt;Guy Judge

  • Unravelling trends and seasonality: A structural time series analysis of transport oil demand in the UK and Japan

    Lester C. Hunt;Yasushi Ninomiya

  • ENERGY PRICE‐ and INCOME‐ELASTICITIES OF DEMAND: SOME ESTIMATES FOR THE UK USING THE COINTEGRATION PROCEDURE

    Lester Hunt;Neil Manning

  • Energy Demand and Energy Efficiency in the OECD Countries: A Stochastic Demand

    Massimo Filippini;Lester Charles Hunt

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Jackson
Tim Jackson University of Surrey
Patrick Devine-Wright
Patrick Devine-Wright University of Exeter
Yvonne Rydin
Yvonne Rydin University College London
Paul Levine
Paul Levine University of Surrey
Anna Alberini
Anna Alberini University of Maryland, College Park

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