Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Tommy Lundgren

The Impact of Climate Policy on Environmental and Economic Performance

Evidence from Sweden

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Produktbeschreibung

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 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781138847477
• ISBN-10: 113884747X
• Artikelnr.: 42743226

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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