Energy efficiency, carbon emission performance, and technology gaps: Evidence from CDM project investment
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Total factor energy efficiency; Total factor carbon emission performance; Meta-frontier non-radial directional distance function; CDM project investment; DEA window analysis; Panel quantile regression;All these keywords.
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