Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Volume 306, Issue 2, Pages 955-967Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2022.08.011
Keywords
Environmental Efficiency; Shadow price of emissions; Marginal rate of transformation between; emissions; Irreversible investment; DEA
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Assessing the production of goods and services while minimizing environmental damage is crucial for sustainable development. This study examines the shadow prices of pollutants and supports the design of policies for environmental efficiency. The research focuses on the pulp and paper sector in 39 countries and identifies the USA, China, and Ireland as the most environmentally inefficient. The findings also suggest that there are opportunities for further emission reductions.
Assessing the production of goods and services while minimizing the damage to the environment is a key component to advance sustainable development at national and global levels. The nonparametric estimation of lower and upper bounds on shadow prices of pollutants is undertaken to support the design of policies promoting environmental efficiency in the presence of asymmetry in adjusting productive and abatement capital capacity. This framework is applied to the pulp and paper sector of 39 countries for 1996-2009, and finds that the USA, China and Ireland are the most environmentally inefficient countries in the pulp and paper sector. The adjustment costs associated with net investment and disinvestment are found to be asymmetric. For those nations where the shadow price of CO2 is lower than the carbon tax, there is still an opportunity to abate emissions further. Results on complementarity or substitutability between pollutants are in general inconclusive.(c) 2022 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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