Energy price-induced and exogenous technological change: Assessing the economic and environmental outcomes

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 334-353

  Kumar, Surender ^a   Managi, Shunsuke ^b,c  

^a TERI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environmental effects; Exogenous technological change; Price induced technological change

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ENERGY PRICES; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL OUTCOME; EXOGENOUS TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; INDUCED TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; OIL PRICES; OUTPUT DISTANCE FUNCTION; PRICE-INDUCED TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY; SULFUR DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GAS INDUSTRY; SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

COSTS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARBON DIOXIDE; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GROWTH RATE; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OIL PRODUCTION; OIL SUPPLY; SUBSTITUTION; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

EID: 70349995997     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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