Effects of substituting energy with capital on China's aggregated energy and environmental efficiency

Energy Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 6065-6072

  Yang, Mian ^a,b   Yang, Fu Xia ^b   Chen, Xing Peng ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Factor substitution; Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA)

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS OWNERS; CHINA; ECONOMIC PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; FACTOR SUBSTITUTION; INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURES; INFLUENCING FACTOR; POLICY MAKERS; REGIONAL VARIATION; REGRESSION MODEL; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS;

ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

COAL; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY USE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PARAMETERIZATION; POLICY MAKING; STOCHASTICITY;

CHINA;

EID: 80052764696     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.07.006     Document Type: Article

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