Estimating Marginal Abatement Costs of SPM: An Applicaiton to the Thermal Power Sector in India

Kumar, Surender; Rao, D. N.

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“…Most of the studies are confined to the United States, China, South Korea or other East Asian countries and very few to European countries. Earlier studies (e.g., Färe et al, 1993;Coggins andSwinton, 1996, Swinton, 2002;Kumar and Rao, 2002;Murty and Kumar, 2002;Gupta, 2006) followed same approach and exploited output and input distance functions to estimate shadow prices of pollutants. Output distance function seeks to expand good and bad outputs radially and the welfare gains are ambiguous.…”

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“…Studies estimating shadow prices of pollutants are limited in India, even though India is supposed to provide a leading role in the global climate policy. Kumar and Rao (2002) provide estimates of shadow prices of PM10 for 33 thermal power plants for the year 1992-93 using output distance function. Similarly, Gupta (2006) exploiting the radial measure of efficiency, estimates output distance function to calculate the shadow price of CO2 emissions only for nine thermal power plants operating in the Eastern India for the period of 1990s.…”

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Shadow price of CO2 emissions in Indian thermal power sector

Jain

Kumar

2018

Environ Econ Policy Stud

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This paper estimates production efficiency and shadow prices of CO2 emissions for thermal power plants in India. It employs a unique sample of 56 power plants for 2000-2013 acquired primarily by invoking the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005. It estimates parametric quadratic directional output distance function using linear programming approach. We find that CO2 intensity of electricity generation could be reduced about 16 and 23 percent if the power plants were made to operate efficiently. The estimated average shadow prices of US$ 14.54 and 18.68 for a ton of CO2 emission, depending upon a plant's strategies for enhancing electricity and reducing CO2 emissions, reflects that the prevailing Clean Energy Cess of US$ 6.15 a ton of coal or US$ 3.81 a ton of CO2 emissions is not enough to induce the required emission mitigation. Significant variation in the estimates of shadow prices calls for the application of economic instruments for cost effective reduction of the emissions.

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Shadow price of CO2 emissions in Indian thermal power sector

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Kumar

2018

Environ Econ Policy Stud

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“…This paper relies on an output distance function that has been widely used in the economic literature (Färe et al, 1989(Färe et al, , 1993(Färe et al, , 2005(Färe et al, , 2010Kumar and Rao, 2002;Hu, 2006;Murty et al, 2002). It follows Dang and Mourougane (2014) who show that, using the Shephard duality (1970) between the output distance function and the revenue function, and the homogeneity property of the distance function, the shadow prices of undesirable output can be expressed as 2Where are respectively the shadow price of undesirable output and of desirable output, is the output-undesirable output elasticity at the frontier of efficiency, or the quantity of good output that must be forgone to reduce the quantity of one per cent of bad output, and the pollutant intensity ratio or the actual output mix, which is a function of the current technology and to some degree the structure of the economy.…”

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Adjusting Productivity for Pollution in Selected Asian Economies

Dang

Mourougane

2014

OECD Green Growth Papers

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The OECD Green Growth Strategy, launched in May 2011, provides concrete recommendations and measurement tools to support countries' efforts to achieve economic growth and development, while at the same time ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the ecosystem services on which our well-being relies. The strategy proposes a flexible policy framework that can be tailored to different country circumstances and stages of development. OECD Green Growth Papers should not be reported as representing the official views of the OECD or of its member countries. The opinions expressed and arguments employed are those of the author(s). OECD Green Growth Papers aim to describe preliminary results or research in progress by the author(s) and are published to stimulate discussion on specific topics and obtain feedback from interested audiences. They complement the OECD Green Growth Studies series, which aims to provide in-depth reviews of the green growth issues faced by different sectors.

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“…Mathematical programming techniques are also used to calculate the parameters of an output distance function (see Färe et al. , 1993; Coggins and Swinton, 1996; Kumar and Rao, 2002; Murty and Kumar, 2002, 2004). Several studies also use econometric methods (e.g.…”

Section: Productivity and Environmental Performance: A Literature mentioning

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“…They use a non-parametric mathematical programming technique known as data envelopment analysis (DEA) to construct their best-practice frontier (see also Ball et al, 1994;Tyteca, 1997;Zaim and Taskin, 2000;Khanna et al, 2002). Mathematical programming techniques are also used to calculate the parameters of an output distance function (see Fa¨re et al, 1993;Coggins and Swinton, 1996;Kumar and Rao, 2002;Kumar, 2002, 2004). Several studies also use econometric methods (e.g.…”

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Productivity and Environmental Performance in Marketing Cooperatives: An Analysis of the Spanish Horticultural Sector

Gómez

Céspedes‐Lorente

Rodriguez-Rodriguez

2006

J Agricultural Economics

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The paper analyses the productivity of marketing cooperatives incorporating environmental inputs/outputs. In the European agriculture, expectations for attaining sustainable and competitive agriculture rely to a great extent on the cooperative sector's ability to adapt to new market conditions. These challenges have led marketing cooperatives in the fruit and vegetables sector to consider improvements in productivity and sound environmental performance. The study analyses the total factor productivity related to environmental variables in this sector using a parametric-stochastic approach and panel data on Spanish cooperatives over the period 1994-2002. Additionally, the determinants of environmental productivity are examined econometrically. The estimates obtained show an increase in efficiency for the period under study and a relationship between productivity changes and management factors, such as labour quality, capital intensity and environmental spillover. Copyright 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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Estimating Marginal Abatement Costs of SPM: An Applicaiton to the Thermal Power Sector in India

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Shadow price of CO2 emissions in Indian thermal power sector

Shadow price of CO2 emissions in Indian thermal power sector

Adjusting Productivity for Pollution in Selected Asian Economies

Productivity and Environmental Performance in Marketing Cooperatives: An Analysis of the Spanish Horticultural Sector

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