Will economic development enhance the energy use efficiency and CO 2 emission control efficiency?

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 12379-12387

  Liou, Je Liang ^a   Wu, Pei Ing ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Environmental Kuznets curve; Meta frontier; Pooling data

Indexed keywords

CONTROL EFFICIENCY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EFFICIENCY INDEX; ENERGY USE; ENERGY-USE EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE; META-FRONTIER; POOLING DATA; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; EMISSION CONTROL;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 79957995645     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.04.017     Document Type: Article

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