Efficiency or technology adoption: A case study in waste-treatment technology

Shunsuke Managi, Akira Hibiki and Tetsuya Shimane

Resource and Energy Economics, 2014, vol. 36, issue 2, 586-600

Abstract: Improvements in the effectiveness and efficiency of supply-side waste management are necessary in many countries. In Japan, municipalities with limited budgets have delayed the introduction of new waste-management technologies. Thus, the central government has used subsidies to encourage municipalities to adopt certain new technologies to improve waste-management efficiency. In this study, we measure the efficiency of waste management and explore how technology is related to technical efficiency. We find that municipalities are likely to adopt less-efficient technologies and that the central government's policies are likely to promote inefficient technology adoption by local governments.

Keywords: Waste-treatment technology; Waste management; Efficiency; Productivity; Technology adoption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2013.09.002

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