Marginal Abatement Costs of Carbon Dioxide Emissions in China: A Parametric Analysis

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 191-216

  Du, Limin ^a   Hanley, Aoife ^b   Wei, Chu ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

^c RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

China; CO2emissions; Parametric estimation; Shadow price

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COSTS; ELASTICITY; EMISSION CONTROL; GLOBAL WARMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; CHINA; MARGINAL ABATEMENT COSTS; OUTPUT DISTANCE FUNCTION; PARAMETRIC -ANALYSIS; PARAMETRIC ESTIMATION; REGIONAL DIFFERENCES; SHADOW PRICE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ABATEMENT COST; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; EMISSION CONTROL; MARGINALIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SHADOW PRICING; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

CHINA;

EID: 84930211763     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: 15731502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-014-9789-5     Document Type: Article

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