Data for: Convergence of carbon dioxide performance across Swedish industrial sectors: An environmental index approach

Abstract of associated article: The overall objective of the paper is to analyze convergence of CO2 emission intensity across manufacturing sectors in Sweden. Our approach differs from previous work on carbon convergence in that it employs a theoretical framework to construct a CO2 performance index, which explicitly takes into account that industrial firms produce good as well as bad outputs. This index is then used as the dependent variable in a growth-type regression equation. We employ a data set covering 14 industrial sectors over the time period 1990–2008. The results suggest the presence of conditional β-convergence in CO2 performance among the industrial sectors in Sweden. Moreover, the speed of convergence varies significantly in the sense that the higher the capital intensity is, the lower is the convergence rate to the different steady states. This is likely to reflect the importance of – and in part the costs associated with – capital turnover to achieve a transition towards lower CO2 emission paths.

关联论文摘要：本研究的核心目标为分析瑞典制造业各细分行业二氧化碳排放强度的趋同态势。与以往碳趋同相关研究不同，本研究依托理论框架构建二氧化碳绩效指数，该指数明确将工业企业在生产中同时产生合意产出（good outputs）与非合意产出（bad outputs）的情形纳入考量。随后将该指数作为增长型回归方程的因变量。本研究使用的数据集覆盖1990年至2008年的14个工业细分行业。研究结果表明，瑞典工业行业的二氧化碳绩效存在条件β趋同特征。此外，趋同速度存在显著异质性：资本密集度越高，向各类稳态收敛的速率越低。该现象大概率反映出，为实现向低二氧化碳排放路径的转型，资本周转至关重要，且转型过程亦伴随部分与资本周转相关的成本。