The Impact of Climate Policy on Environmental and Economic Performance: Evidence from Sweden

ISBN-13: 9780367607494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 146 str.

Rolf Färe; Shawna Grosskopf; Tommy Lundgren

Opis

This book 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 m

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Method and models

Chapter 3: Productivity: Should we include bads?

Chapter 4: Environmental performance and productivity - the role of national and EU level climate policy

Chapter 5: The Swedish CO2 tax, environmental performance, and impact on profits – A stochastic frontier analysis

Chapter 6: Regulation and unintended consequences: Which bad is worst?

Chapter 7: Cost-benefit analysis with DEA: Measuring expense effectiveness

O autorze

Rolf Färe is a Professor of Economics and Applied Economics at Oregon State University. As a former student of Ronald W. Shephard, his main research interest is in production theory, especially in an activity analysis or DEA framework, and applications in numerous fields, including environmental economics, energy efficiency, and health. Since 2015 he has been an Adjunct Faculty at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, USA.

Shawna Grosskopf is Professor Emerita and currently an adjunct professor at the Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics, Umeå, Sweden. Recent research has included work on using directional distance functions to model productivity in the presence of environmental byproducts and assessing performance in the health sector.

Tommy Lundgren is a Professor of Economics at the Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics, Umeå, Sweden. His research is mainly focused on applied policy analysis related to the environment. Currently, he is running a project assessing industrial energy demand and energy efficiency in Sweden.

Per-Olov Marklund is a Researcher at the National Institute of Economic Research (NIER), Stockholm, Sweden. His research focuses on applied policy analysis that relates to the environment. He is currently involved in research on green public procurement as an environmental policy instrument.

Wenchao Zhou is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Regional Sciences at Umeå University, Sweden.