Asymmetric effects of the business cycle on carbon dioxide emissions

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• 作者：Tamara L. Sheldon ^{tamara.sheldon@moore.sc.edu}
• 关键词：Energy ; Business cycles ; Climate change
• 刊名：Energy Economics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：61
• 期：Complete
• 页码：289-297
• 全文大小：674 K
• 卷排序：61

文摘

This paper considers how the business cycle affects US CO2 emissions. Emissions fall more sharply when GDP declines than they rise when GDP increases. This is partly due to a decrease in industrial energy intensity as GDP declines. Accounting for this asymmetry results in 5% lower cumulative emissions through 2050.