Modeling the dynamics of carbon emission performance in China: A parametric Malmquist index approach

Energy Economics

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 550-557

  Lin, Boqiang ^a,b   Du, Kerui ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon emission performance; Fixed effect; Malmquist index; SFA

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CARBON EMISSIONS; EMISSIONS PERFORMANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FIXED EFFECTS; MALMQUIST INDICES; NONPARAMETRIC APPROACHES; SFA; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER MODELS;

CARBON;

CARBON EMISSION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INDEX METHOD; MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTICITY;

CHINA;

EID: 84928242131     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2015.03.028     Document Type: Article

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