Technical efficiency, productivity change and environmental degradation

George Halkos and Christina Bampatsou

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Abstract: This study deals with the nonparametric frontier analysis in the case of the EU 28 countries for a period spanning from 1993 to 2012. It provides statistical inference about the radial output based measure of technical efficiency under the assumption of Constant Returns to Scale (CRS) and it performs scale analysis that allows determining the nature of scale inefficiency of each data point. Furthermore, an order-α approach is developed for determining partial frontiers. Both traditional Malmquist-Luenberger and bootstrapped Malmquist productivity indexes between 1993 and 2012 are constructed. Analysis of productivity change by decomposing the Total Factor Productivity Index into Efficiency Change and Technical Change is performed showing respectively whether productivity gains derive mainly from improvements in efficiency or are mostly the result of technological progress.

Keywords: Data envelopment analysis; Environmental Economics; Carbon emissions; Eco-Efficiency; Total factor productivity index. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O11 O57 Q01 Q4 Q40 Q43 Q48 Q50 Q58 R15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-02
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