Environmental regulations and allocative efficiency: application to coal-to-gas substitution in the U.S. electricity sector
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Polluting technologies; Materials balance condition; Nerlovian efficiency; Data envelopment analysis;All these keywords.
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- D20 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - General
- Q52 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
- C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
- Q40 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - General
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