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- Bostian, Moriah, et al.
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Environmental investment and firm performance : a network approach
- 2016
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Ingår i: Energy Economics. - : Elsevier. - 0140-9883 .- 1873-6181. ; 57, s. 243-255
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examines the role of investment in environmental production practices for both environmental performance and energy efficiency over time. We employ a network DEA approach that links successive production technologies through intertemporal investment decisions with a period by period estimation. This allows us to estimate energy efficiency and environmental performance separately, as well as productivity change and its associated decompositions into efficiency change and technology change. Incorporating a network model also allows us to account for both short-term environmental management practices and long-term environmental investments in each of our productivity measures. We apply this framework to a panel of detailed plant-level production data for Swedish manufacturing firms covering the years 2002-2008.
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- Bostian, Moriah, et al.
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Network Representations of Pollution-Generating Technologies
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics. - : Now Publishers Inc.. - 1932-1465 .- 1932-1473. ; 11:3, s. 193-231
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We update developments on modeling technology including unintended outputs and show how these can, at least to a large extent, be incorporated in a network model framework. Recently there have been efforts to specify more detailed models which include multiple functions to separately capture intended and unintended products. Yet another recent strand of the recent literature has also explicitly tried to include a material balance condition in the model. We see this general evolution as beginning with what might be called a black box technology, with inputs entering the box, and good and bad outputs exiting the box. The more sophisticated models can be thought of as filling in the black box with the more detailed processes involved with production, prevention and abatement, with production accompanied by undesirable byproducts subject to legal regulations and laws of nature. This can be modeled as a network within the black box.
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- Bostian, Moriah, et al.
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Time substitution for environmental performance : The case of Swedish manufacturing
- 2018
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Ingår i: Empirical Economics. - : PHYSICA-VERLAG GMBH & CO. - 0377-7332 .- 1435-8921. ; 54:1, s. 129-152
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We extend recent advances in time substitution modeling to a directional distance function framework, in order to examine the environmental performance of firms in Sweden's pulp and paper industry for the years 2002-2008. Our data allow us to estimate the optimal reallocation of environmental investments, expenditures and energy use to simultaneously maximize production output and minimize emissions in the years immediately before and after the implementation of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme. We find some evidence of overall productivity decline when considering both emissions and output objectives, due primarily to technological decline, and that cumulative dynamic inefficiency outweighs static inefficiency. A comparison of optimal investment with observed investment indicates that firms could have improved their performance by reallocating environmental investments to early periods and production-oriented investment to later periods.
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- Färe, Rolf, et al.
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The impact of climate policy on environmental and economic performance : evidence from Sweden
- 2017
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden has a long history of ambitious environmental, energy, and climate policy. Due to the large amount of data available it is possible to perform statistically sound analysis and assess long-term changes in productivity, efficiency, and technological development. The data at hand together with Sweden’s ambitious energy and climate policy provide a unique opportunity to shed light on pertinent policy issues. The Impact of Climate Policy on Environmental and Economic Performance answers several key questions: What is the effect of the CO2 tax on environmental performance and profitability of firms? Does including emissions in productivity measurement of the industrial firm matter? Did the introduction of the EU ETS spur technological development in the Swedish industrial firm? What air pollutant is most inhibiting production when regulated? Being aware and learning from the Swedish case can be very relevant for countries that are in the process of shaping their climate policy. This book is of great importance to researchers and policy makers who are interested in environmental economics, industrial economics, and climate change.
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