Modeling international trends in energy efficiency

Energy Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2200-2208

  Stern, David I ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Between estimator; Carbon emissions; Efficiency; Energy; Stochastic frontier; Technological change

Indexed keywords

BETWEEN ESTIMATOR; CARBON EMISSIONS; ENERGY; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

ECONOMICS; EFFICIENCY; FOSSIL FUELS; PROVEN RESERVES; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

CARBON EMISSION; CROSS SECTION; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY USE; FOSSIL FUEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCHASTICITY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

EID: 84867735294     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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