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1 online resource (160 pages) |
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Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics |
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Routledge explorations in environmental economics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Policy background; 1.1.1 Climate and energy policy in Sweden; 1.1.2 An international perspective; 1.1.3 EU Emissions Trading System; 1.2 Data; 1.3 Result highlights; 1.4 The organization of the book; 1.5 Notes; 1.6 References; 2 Method and models; 2.1 Models of technology in terms of sets, including goods and bads; 2.2 Representing the technology by distance functions; 2.3 Formulating technology in terms of (nonparametric) data envelopment analysis |
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2.4 Estimating performance with nonparametric and parametric forms2.5 Profit efficiency: stochastic frontier analysis; 2.6 Notes; 2.7 References; 3 Productivity: should we include bads?; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The directional output distance function and Luenberger productivity indicator; 3.2.1 The Luenberger productivity indicator including bad output; 3.2.2 The Luenberger productivity indicator excluding bad output; 3.3 The DEA formulations; 3.3.1 Model I: including bad outputs with good output expanded and bad output contracted |
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3.3.2 Model II: including bad outputs with only good output expanded3.3.3 Model III: excluding bad outputs; 3.4 Data; 3.5 Results; 3.5.1 Average annual productivity growth in sectors and aggregated industry; 3.5.2 Formally testing for differences between models; 3.6 Conclusions and discussion; 3.7 Notes; 3.8 References; 3.9 Appendix 3A; 3.10 Appendix 3B; 4 Environmental performance and productivity: the role of national and EU-level climate policy; 4.1 Industrial environmental (carbon) performance and the Swedish CO2 tax, 1990-2004; 4.1.1 The environmental performance index; 4.1.2 Empirics |
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4.1.3 Data: a balanced panel data set 1990-2004 for Swedish industry4.1.4 Results: environmental performance and effects of the CO2 tax, 1990-2004; 4.1.5 Conclusions: environmental performance and the CO2 tax, 1990-2004; 4.2 Productivity, carbon prices, and incentives for technological progress: evidence from the pulp and paper industry, 1998-2008; 4.2.1 The Luenberger productivity indicator; 4.2.2 Pulp and paper industry data, 1998-2008; 4.2.3 Estimating the Luenberger indicator and econometric approach |
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4.2.4 Results: total factor productivity and its components and the effects of climate policy, 1998-20084.2.5 Conclusions: total factor productivity and its components and the effects of climate policy, 1998-2008; 4.3 References; 5 The Swedish CO2 tax, environmental performance, and impact on profits: a stochastic frontier analysis; 5.1 The CO2 tax and impact on profits; 5.1.1 The Porter hypothesis; 5.1.2 Profit efficiency; 5.1.3 Empirical approach; 5.1.4 Profit efficiency and the CO2 tax; 5.1.5 Data; 5.1.6 Results: profit efficiency and the CO2 tax |
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5.1.7 Conclusions: the CO2 tax and profit efficiency |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Grosskopf, Shawna
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Lundgren, Tommy
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Marklund, Per-Olov
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Zhou, Wenchao, 1965-
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| ISBN |
9781317538028 |
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1317538021 |
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