Measuring China's regional energy and carbon emission efficiency with DEA models: A survey

F Meng, B Su, E Thomson, D Zhou, P Zhou - Applied energy, 2016 - Elsevier
The use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) in China's regional energy efficiency and
carbon emission efficiency (EE&CE) assessment has received increasing attention in recent …

Combining the biennial Malmquist–Luenberger index and panel quantile regression to analyze the green total factor productivity of the industrial sector in China

KL Wang, SQ Pang, LL Ding, Z Miao - Science of The Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Improving the green total-factor productivity (GTFP) is a key measure to coordinate industrial
development and environmental protection in China. This study adopts the biennial …

Efficiency and abatement costs of energy-related CO2 emissions in China: A slacks-based efficiency measure

Y Choi, N Zhang, P Zhou - Applied energy, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper uses nonparametric efficiency analysis technique to estimate the energy
efficiency, potential emission reductions and marginal abatement costs of energy-related …

Total factor carbon emission performance: a Malmquist index analysis

P Zhou, BW Ang, JY Han - Energy Economics, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper introduces a Malmquist CO2 emission performance index (MCPI) for measuring
changes in total factor carbon emission performance over time. The MCPI is derived by …

China's regional industrial energy efficiency and carbon emissions abatement costs

K Wang, YM Wei - Applied Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
Evaluating the energy and emissions efficiency, measuring the energy saving and
emissions reduction potential, and estimating the carbon price in China at the regional level …

Energy efficiency and production technology heterogeneity in China: A meta-frontier DEA approach

Q Wang, Z Zhao, P Zhou, D Zhou - Economic Modelling, 2013 - Elsevier
The heterogeneities of production technology among provinces in China cause difficulties
for unbiased evaluation of energy efficiency. Using meta-frontier data envelopment analysis …

Energy efficiency convergence across countries in the context of China's Belt and Road initiative

L Han, B Han, X Shi, B Su, X Lv, X Lei - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract After China launched its “Belt and Road”(BR) initiative, the international community
became concerned that it may worsen the environmental performance of the BR countries …

A bottom-up analysis of China's iron and steel industrial energy consumption and CO2 emissions

W Chen, X Yin, D Ma - Applied Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
China's steel industry has grown significantly since the mid-1990s, and has been the
backbone of Chinese heavy industry. It is also the most energy intensive industrial sector in …

Total-factor energy efficiency in developing countries

XP Zhang, XM Cheng, JH Yuan, XJ Gao - Energy Policy, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper uses a total-factor framework to investigate energy efficiency in 23 developing
countries during the period of 1980–2005. We explore the total-factor energy efficiency and …

Measuring economy-wide energy efficiency performance: A parametric frontier approach

P Zhou, BW Ang, DQ Zhou - Applied energy, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a parametric frontier approach to estimating economy-wide energy
efficiency performance from a production efficiency point of view. It uses the Shephard …