a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: Q53 Q55 M40 C33 Keywords: CO2 emissions R&D expenditures IFRS adoption European manufacturing firms TAR model This study examines the impact of research and development (R&D) expenditures on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions prior to and under the mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards at the firm level within the manufacturing s...

This paper estimates a class of models which satisfy a monotonicity condition on the conditional quantile function of the response variable. This class includes as a special case the monotonic transformation model with the error term satisfying a conditional quantile restriction, thus allowing for very general forms of conditional heteroscedasticity. Furthermore, the monotonicity condition enab...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: C14 D24 O13 O44 Q53 Q56 Keywords: Shadow price Emissions trading Directional distance function Marginal abatement cost Coal power plant Shadow prices, also termed marginal abatement costs, provide valuable guidelines to support environmental regulatory policies for CO 2 , SO 2 and NO x , the key contributors to climate change. This paper complements the...

This article updates Kelly and Bruestle (2011) by illustrating how publication trends in different subject categories in economics evolved from 2007 to 2013. Using data from RePEc we show that the largest increase in the relative share was for articles published in JEL category Q (“Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics, Environmental and Ecological Economics”) over this period. Furthermor...

The journal of economic literature classification scheme is a standard scheme to classify economics paper. This paper exames the usage of the scheme in a large set of economics papers. I document what subjects are central to the work of economics.