A metafrontier approach for measuring an environmentally sensitive productivity growth index

Energy Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 146-157

  Oh, Dong hyun ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CO2 emissions; Efficiency change; Environmentally sensitive productivity growth index; Malmquist Luenberger productivity growth index; Technical change

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AGENTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH; TECHNICAL CHANGE;

FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; TECHNOLOGY;

PRODUCTIVITY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY POLICY; HETEROGENEITY; PRODUCTIVITY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

EUROPE;

EID: 72549118366     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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