We propose a mixture model approach to identify locally optimal technologies and to dissect environmental productivity …

argue that technological change may instead increase the productivity of polluting inputs, and thus marginal abatement costs … stricter environmental policy induces some pollution-saving technological change, it may do so at the cost of a reduced overall …, the presence of additional distortions drive wedges between the social and private valuation of investment and pollution …

This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The … combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed …

The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use … apparent ‘productivity paradox’. The most obvious one is the fact that not many countries, other than the US, have yet invested …

the new technology may turn out to generate a new pollution problem. R&D may therefore be optimally undertaken more than … the optimal pollution and R&D policies. The optimal R&D program is strictly sequential and has an endogenous stopping …