Total factor productivity and the Environmental Kuznets Curve: A comment and some intuition

Ecological Economics

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 54-58

  Khanna, Neha ^a   Plassmann, Florenz ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abatement; Environmental quality; Marginal rate of substitution; Marginal rate of transformation; Pollution

Indexed keywords

ABATEMENT COST; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY; POLLUTION;

EID: 34249003339     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.09.020     Document Type: Article

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