Malmquist–Luenberger index is a popular index deployed for evaluating eco-efficiency and
productivity change over a certain period when both desirable and undesirable factors are …

Abstract On June 25, 2013, President Obama announced his plan to introduce carbon
dioxide emission standards for electricity generation. This paper proposes an efficiency …

This paper proposes a scenario analysis to address whether the national and provincial CO
2 emissions intensity reduction target during 2016–2020 would be achievable for China's …

In this paper, we analyze the technical efficiency and CO 2 reduction potentials of German
power and heat plants, using a non-parametric sequential Data Envelopment Analysis. We …

While there is an abundant theoretical and empirical literature on environmental efficiency
measurement, the impacts of heterogeneous input quality on environmental efficiency …

In this paper we conduct an empirical analysis of the environmental and economic
performance of coal-fired power plants in the United States. Using nonparametric methods …

Multiple approaches to incorporate environmental pollution in production technologies have
been proposed. In this paper, we analyze the consequences of these theoretical models for …

In this paper we analyze the economic effects of implementing EPA's newly proposed
regulations for carbon dioxide (CO _2 CO 2) on existing US coal-fired power plants using …

The empirical applications of the metafrontier analysis have largely been popularized by the
publications of Battese et al.(2004), and O'Donnell et al.(2008). Prior to the estimation of the …

In this paper we propose a novel approach to estimate the rational inefficiency of decision
making units in the presence of adjustment costs. Using sequential definitions of the …