Will economic development enhance the energy use efficiency and CO 2 emission control efficiency?
Journal
Expert Systems with Applications
Journal Volume
38
Journal Issue
10
Pages
12379-12387
Date Issued
2011
Author(s)
Liou, J.-L.
Abstract
This study employs data envelopment analysis approach to construct the meta-frontier global technical efficiency of energy use index and global technical efficiency of CO2 emission control index to measure the energy use efficiency and CO2 emission control efficiency at country level. Destruction of these efficiency indices into pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency sub-indices is to capture sources of inefficiency in relation to the development of an economy. The results indicate that for developed countries the enhancement of the pure technical efficiency in the energy use and the scale efficiency of CO2 emission control are important tasks to pursue. On the contrary, developing countries have to seek the improvement of the pure technical efficiency of CO2 emission control and scale efficiency of energy use. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Subjects
Data envelopment analysis; Environmental Kuznets curve; Meta-frontier; Pooling data
SDGs
Other Subjects
Control efficiency; Developed countries; Economic development; Efficiency index; Energy use; Energy-use efficiency; Environmental Kuznets curve; Meta-frontier; Pooling data; Technical efficiency; Data envelopment analysis; Developing countries; Economic and social effects; Economics; Emission control; Carbon dioxide
Type
journal article