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| Author: | Picazo-Tadeo, A. J. Prior, D. |
| Title: | Environmental externalities and efficiency measurement |
| Journal: | Journal of Environmental Management
2009 : AUG, VOL. 90:11, p. 3332-3339 |
| Index terms: | efficiency measurement environmental protection environmental quality externalities data analysis Spain |
| Freeterms: | empirical illustration |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article investigates technologies where the biggest good output producer is not the greatest polluter, i.e. technologies located on the downward-sloping segment of the frontier depicted in Färe et al. (1989). Directional distance functions and Data Envelopment Analysis techniques are used to define an algorithm that allows them to be identified empirically. It is suggests in such situations producers can contribute social goods, i.e. reducing polluting wastes, without limiting their capacity to maximise production of marketable output. They illustrate their methodology with an empirical application to a sample of Spanish ceramic tile producers. |
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