Global CO 2 efficiency: Country-wise estimates using a stochastic cost frontier

Energy Policy

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 762-770

  Herrala, Risto ^a   Goel, Rajeev K ^b  

^a BANK OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide efficiency; Greenhouse emissions; Stochastic frontier analysis

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE; COST FRONTIER; ECONOMETRIC MODEL; EFFICIENCY GAIN; EFFICIENCY LEVELS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY; GLOBAL CO; GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; POLICY OBJECTIVES; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; PUBLIC POLICY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EFFICIENCY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; ECONOMETRICS; ENERGY POLICY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GREENHOUSE GAS; STOCHASTICITY;

AFRICA; CHINA; EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859786417     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.03.007     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Energy Information Administration, 2009. Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2009. http://www.eia.doe.gov.
2. Filippini, M. and L.C. Hunt, 2010. Energy demand and energy efficiency in the OECD countries: a stochastic demand frontier approach, SEEDS Discussion Paper Series 127.
3. Färe R., Grosskopf S., Noh D.-W., Weber W. Characteristics of polluting technology: theory and practice. Journal of Econometrics 2005, 126:469-492.
4. Goel R.K., Hsieh E.W.T. On coordinating environmental policy and technology policy. Journal of Policy Modeling 2006, 28:897-908.
5. Goel R.K., Korhonen I. Economic growth in BRIC countries and comparisons with rest of the world 2011, Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition, mimeo.
6. International Energy Agency, 2010. Energy Efficiency Governance, http://www.iea.org.
7. International Energy Agency, 2009. Progress with Implementing Energy Efficiency in the G8 Countries, http://www.iea.org.
8. Kaya Y., Yokobori K. Environment, Energy, and Economy: Strategies for Sustainability 1997, United Nations University Press, Tokyo.
9. Kumbakhar S., Lovell C.K. Stochastic Frontier Analysis 2000, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
10. 2-income tradeoff: an output distance function approach. Environment and Development Economics 2008, 13:457-473.
11. Reinhart S., Lovell C.K., Zofio J. Environmental efficiency with multiple environmentally detrimental variables: estimated with SFA and DEA. European Journal of Operational Research 2000, 121:287-303.
12. Reinhart S., Lovell C.A.K., Thijssen G. Analysis of environmental efficiency variation. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2002, 84:1054-1065.
13. Vaninsky A.Y. Interstate comparisons of environmental performance using stochastic frontier analysis: the United States case study. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 2010, 66:21-25.
14. 2 emissions from OECD countries. Resource and Energy Economics 2001, 23:63-83.