Total factor carbon emission performance: A Malmquist index analysis

Energy Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 194-201

  Zhou, P ^a   Ang, B W ^b   Han, J Y ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Carbon dioxide emissions; Data envelopment analysis; Malmquist index; Total factor productivity

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAP; CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; CARBON EMISSIONS; EMISSION PERFORMANCE; MALMQUIST INDICES; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DATA HANDLING; GLOBAL WARMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; PRODUCTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CARBON MONOXIDE;

BOOTSTRAPPING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 72249100858     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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