Energy efficiency and productivity change of China's iron and steel industry: Accounting for undesirable outputs

F He, Q Zhang, J Lei, W Fu, X Xu - Energy Policy, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper used data from 50 enterprises in China's iron and steel industry to evaluate their
energy efficiency and productivity change. The study first used a conventional data …

A performance evaluation of the energy, environmental, and economic efficiency and productivity in China: An application of global data envelopment analysis

Z Wang, C Feng - Applied Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
The current mode of economic development in China is typified by high growth, high energy
consumption, and high pollution characteristics and this has caused great stress on both …

A bottom-up model to estimate the energy efficiency improvement and CO2 emission reduction potentials in the Chinese iron and steel industry

A Hasanbeigi, W Morrow, J Sathaye, E Masanet, T Xu - Energy, 2013 - Elsevier
China's annual crude steel production in 2010 was 638.7 Mt accounting for nearly half of the
world's annual crude steel production in the same year. Around 461 TWh of electricity and …

China's regional sustainability and diversified resource allocation: DEA environmental assessment on economic development and air pollution

T Sueyoshi, Y Yuan - Energy Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
Environmental protection, including the prevention of air pollution and health hazard
materials such as PM2. 5 and PM10, is now a very serious policy issue in China after …

Industrial co-agglomeration, green technological innovation, and total factor energy efficiency

H Yang, X Xu, F Zhang - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022 - Springer
The double-wheel driven of manufacturing and producer services industrial co-
agglomeration is of great significance for transforming the economic growth mode driven by …

Total-factor energy productivity growth, technical progress, and efficiency change: An empirical study of China

TP Chang, JL Hu - Applied Energy, 2010 - Elsevier
This article introduces total-factor energy productivity change index (TFEPI) based on the
concept of total-factor energy efficiency and the Luenberger productivity index to evaluate …

Energy efficiency of selected OECD countries: A slacks based model with undesirable outputs

N Apergis, GC Aye, CP Barros, R Gupta, P Wanke - Energy Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents an efficiency assessment of selected OECD countries using a Slacks
Based Model with undesirable or bad outputs (SBM-Undesirable). In this research, SBM …

Performance evaluation of complex electricity generation systems: A dynamic network-based data envelopment analysis approach

R Alizadeh, RG Beiragh, L Soltanisehat… - Energy Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
To evaluate the performance of complex electricity generation systems, a new dynamic
network-based data envelopment analysis (DNDEA) approach is presented. Past data …

Measure is treasure: Revisiting the role of environmental regulation in Chinese industrial green productivity

X Ouyang, J Liao, C Sun, Y Cao - Environmental Impact Assessment …, 2023 - Elsevier
Green productivity plays an important role in China's industrial economy. By adopting the
technique of Malmquist Luenberger index based on the non-radial directional distance …

Analyzing the relationship between energy efficiency and environmental and financial variables: A way towards sustainable development

D Taskin, E Dogan, M Madaleno - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The literature has mainly relied on an annual and short span of data to analyze the
relationship between energy, environmental and financial indicators. This study analyzes …