International comparison of industrial CO2 emission trends and the energy efficiency paradox utilizing production-based decomposition
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Decomposition analysis; DEA analysis; Energy efficiency paradox; CO2 emission; Production technology;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
- Q55 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation
- Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics
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