This paper provides an empirical analysis of the impact of various influences on carbon dioxide emissions. It incorporates methodological refinements of input-output structural decomposition analysis, which is the examination of economic change by means of a set of comparative static variations...

The problem of estimating elasticity values is considered using a general functional from for the growth rate of input demand. The general input growth equation holds for all functional forms, both flexible and inflexible; it is linear-in-parameters and easy to use in applied production studies....

This paper presents and estimates an input-output model in which input coefficient changes are functions of changing prices. The model produces results that mirror the characteristics of input demand functions based on the model of cost minimization subject to producing a desired level of...

Discusses recent proposals by the Clinton Administration that calls for a general tax on all energy products. Along with raising revenue, such a tax has the desirable effects of conservative finite resources, reducing pollution emissions, and reducing dependency on foreign supplies of energy.

Based on the general procedure described by Casler [(2011) Coefficient Change, Price Effects, and Implicit Elasticities: Estimating Microeconomic Determinants over Two Time Periods. <italic>Economic Systems Research</italic>, 23, 153--174], this paper presents an updated approach to the estimation of input...