Capturing climate's effect on pollution abatement with an improved solution to the omitted variables problem

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 540-557

  Leightner, Jonathan E ^a   Inoue, Tomoo ^b  

^a AUGUSTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SEIKEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abatement costs; Electricity; Environment; Omitted variables; Weather

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); COSTS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; OPTIMIZATION; POWER PLANTS; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ABATEMENT COSTS; CONCENTRATION ABATEMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 43849097841     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2007.08.009     Document Type: Article

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