Assessing trade Efficiency: Insights from trade priority, environmental priority, and balanced strategies

Yu Zhu and Dawei Wang

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2025, vol. 100, issue C

Abstract: This study employs Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to assess international trade efficiency, incorporating carbon dioxide emissions as an undesirable output and addressing biases in previous assessments that overlooked emissions embodied in trade. The model introduces three distinct strategic objectives: a trade priority, an environmental priority, and a balanced approach between trade and environmental concerns. The proposed framework is then applied to a sample of 42 economies.

Keywords: International trade; Trade efficiency; Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Carbon emissions; Cross-efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2025.102223

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