Urban green total factor productivity in China: A generalized Luenberger productivity indicator and its parametric decomposition

B Guo, H Yu, G Jin - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, by taking the distance elasticity shares as the input weights in the production
function, the generalized Luenberger productivity indicator (GLPI) was proposed to analyze …

The effects of the multi-target policy on green productivity: evidence from China's fossil fuel power plants

Y Zhao, Y Ma, Y Choi, N Zhang - The Energy Journal, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
We propose the non-radial meta-frontier global Luenberger productivity index, which
addresses the issues of technology heterogeneity, slack variable, and linear programming …

[HTML][HTML] Temperature shocks and low-carbon performance: Evidence from the transportation sector in China

D Chang, X Huang, C Wang, N Zhang - Transportation Research Part D …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study identifies how temperature affects the transportation sector's low-carbon
performance, measured by carbon total factor productivity (CTFP). The findings reveal that …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the vulnerability of oil-dependent countries in Europe

CO Henriques, A Lima, DK Nguyen, ME Neves - Energy Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
In this article, we attempt to assess the vulnerability of European oil-dependent countries,
using the Weighted Russell Directional Distance Model, which provides a composite index …

Accuracy of Deterministic Nonparametric Frontier Models with Undesirable Outputs

DD Wang, Y Ren - European Journal of Operational Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The accuracy of deterministic nonparametric frontier models with desirable outputs has been
extensively investigated. However, research on the models' accuracy in the presence of …

Input inefficiencies in the hotel industry. A non-radial directional performance measurement

C Hernández-Guedes… - Tourism …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper investigates the inefficiencies of inputs in the hotel industry. To do this, we apply
the weighted Russell directional distance model (Barros et al., 2012; Chen et al., 2014) …

Measuring the productivity of urban commercial banks in China

B Zhao, Y Tian, K Kenjegalieva, J Wood - International Review of …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper contributes to the productivity analysis literature by measuring the productivity of
76 urban commercial banks operating in China's 27 regions from 2013 to 2018. A spatial …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating into the dual role of loan loss reserves in banking production process

H Fukuyama, Y Tan - Annals of Operations Research, 2024 - Springer
This paper considers the use of loan loss reserves (LLRs) in the banking production process
and treats it as one variable with a dual role. We establish a three-stage network Data …

Inclusive green productivity growth in China: identification of sources and evolutionary patterns

Z Gao, F Zhang, L Li, Y Hao - International Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Springer
Enhancing inclusive green total factor productivity (GITFP) growth has become an
unavoidable option for economic development in light of high-quality economic …

Balancing bank profits and nonperforming loans: a multiple objective programming approach

S Boubaker, TDQ Le, R Manita, T Ngo - Annals of Operations Research, 2024 - Springer
The recent operations research literature has witnessed an increasing trend of studies on
banking efficiency, whereas nonperforming loans (NPLs) are often treated as undesirable …