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factor productivity, and climate sensitivity. It estimates the pdfs of key output variables, including CO2 concentrations …
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This paper investigates how environmental taxes affect manufacturing productivity by examining British Columbia …’s revenue-neutral carbon tax. I develop a new hypothesis, the ‘‘Productivity Dividend Hypothesis,” to show that environmental … taxes can positively affect productivity by recycling tax revenues to reduce corporate income taxes. This revenue …
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Multifactor productivity is a comprehensive measure of productivity where the underlying production function accounts … for multiple factor inputs, traditionally labour and produced capital. While single-factor productivity is intuitively … productivity aims at addressing this shortcoming, and as such it is a valuable component of the OECD set of Green Growth headline …
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The method that Canada and other developed countries use to measure productivity growth generally ignores the … of production processes, are excluded from the productivity accounting framework. This study proposes an extended … productivity measure that takes pollutants into account. It illustrates how it can be applied using carbon dioxide emissions. The …
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Energy efficiency and decarbonization are important elements of climate change mitigation. We draw on European mitigation scenarios from the EMF28 modeling exercise to decompose economy-wide and sectoral emissions into their main components. We utilize the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI)...
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Fossil-fuel-related carbon dioxide emissions have risen dramatically since 1800. We identify the long-run drivers of CO2 emissions for a sample of twelve developed economies using an extended Kaya decomposition. By considering biomass and carbon-free energy sources along with fossil fuels we are...
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