2 papers
econ.GN2026
What Drives Energy Use? Prices, Efficiency Policies, and the Demand Frontier
David Benatia, Rémy Molinié, Pierre-Olivier Pineau
What drives cross-state differences in U.S. energy consumption? We combine LMDI decomposition, stochastic frontier analysis, and variable-importance methods on a panel of 50 states…
econ.EM2025
Dealing with Logs and Zeros in Regression Models
David Benatia, Christophe Bellégo, Louis Pape
The log transformation is widely used in linear regression, mainly because coefficients are interpretable as proportional effects. Yet this practice has fundamental limitations, mo…