Karpaty, Polina
- Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics
Abstract
Starting from the ’90s, Swedish manufacturing output has been constantly growing, while emissions of some major air pollutants have been declining. This paper decomposes manufacturing pollution emissions to identify the forces associated with the abatement. It uses a newly available dataset on actual annual emissions from Swedish manufacturing and creates an index of emission intensities for the major local air pollutants to directly estimate the technique effect for the period 2007–2017. The results suggest that the main driver of the clean-up was improvements in emission intensities, while the composition of output actually moved towards more pollution-intensive goods. In the absence of changes in scale and technique, manufacturing pollution emissions would have increased in a range between 3 (particulate matter) and 20% (non-methane volatile compounds) between 2007 and 2017.
Keywords
Environmental policy; Pollution decomposition; Technique effect; Composition effect; Manufacturing
Published in
Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
2022, volume: 24, number: 2, pages: 195-223
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Economics
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10018-021-00319-5
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/113817