An empirical analysis of the CO2 shadow price in Chinese thermal power enterprises

Energy Economics

Volumn 40, Issue , 2013, Pages 22-31

  Wei, Chu ^a,b   Löschel, Andreas ^c,d   Liu, Bing ^e  

^a RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; CO2; Directional distance function; Quadratic function; Shadow price; Thermal power enterprise

Indexed keywords

CHINA; DIRECTIONAL DISTANCE FUNCTION; QUADRATIC FUNCTION; SHADOW PRICE; THERMAL POWER ENTERPRISE;

COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMMERCE; INDUSTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ABATEMENT COST; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; EMISSIONS TRADING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHADOW PRICING; THERMAL POWER;

CHINA;

EID: 84880357015     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2013.05.018     Document Type: Article

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