Inadequacies of the traditional, single-equation representations of models of emission-
generating technologies prominently associated with the classic book by Baumol and Oates …

Undesirable outputs (or bads) refer to the byproducts accompanied with desirable outputs
(or goods) in a production process, eg sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide in coal-fired power …

As part of the country's efforts to achieve green development, China implemented a
mandatory energy intensity reduction target in its 11th “Five-Year Plan (FYP)” in 2006, and …

We argue analytically that many commonly used models of pollution-generating
technologies, which treat pollution as a freely disposable input or as a weakly disposable …

This paper studies the effect of environmental regulation on the productive efficiency of
water polluting industries in India. The panel data of 92 firms belonging to sugar industry of …

Environmental sustainability performance predictions can help firms to set benchmarks for
improvement and comparison. Although several works in literature have attempted in …

We introduce new specifications and estimation procedures of traditional distance functions
that allow researchers to undertake environmental efficiency and productivity studies within …

The estimation of the value of carbon emissions has become a major research and policy
topic since the establishment of the Kyoto Protocol. The shadow price of CO 2 provides …

This paper looks at carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the point of view of production
theory and proposes a new total factor CO2 emissions performance index. This is done …

Technical and environmental efficiency of some coal-fired thermal power plants in India is
estimated using a methodology that accounts for firm's efforts to increase the production of …