Shadow Prices for Undesirables in Swedish Industry: Indication of Environmental Kuznets Curves?

Mattias Ankarhem ()
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Mattias Ankarhem: Department of Economics, Umeå University, Postal: S 901 87 Umeå, Sweden

No 659, Umeå Economic Studies from Umeå University, Department of Economics

Abstract: In this note, we estimate time series of shadow prices for Swedish emissions of CO2, SO2 , and VOC for the period 1918 - 1994. The shadow prices are in the second step related to income to explain the environmental Kuznets curves previously found for Swedish data on the three emissions. A Shephard distance function approach is used to estimate a structural model of the industry’s production process in order to calculate the opportunity costs of a reduction in the emissions. We conclude that the times series of the shadow prices obtained using this approach do not show support for EKCs for Swedish industry

Keywords: Emissions; Historical time series; Distance function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O11 O13 Q51 Q53 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2005-04-28
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