The impact of economic activity on the environment is a matter of growing concern for firm managers, policymakers, researchers and society as a whole. Building on previous work by Kortelainen (2008) [Dynamic environmental performance analysis: A Malmquist index approach. Ecological Economics 64,...

Eco-efficiency is a matter of concern at present that is receiving increasing attention in political, academic and business circles. Broadly speaking, this concept refers to the ability to create more goods and services with less impact on the environment and less consumption of natural...

This paper uses directional distance functions to extend the non-parametric metafrontier approach to efficiency measurement proposed by O’Donnell et al. (Empir Econ 34:231–255, <CitationRef CitationID="CR38">2008</CitationRef>) to the assessment of technological differences in eco-efficiency between groups of producers. Furthermore,...</citationref>

This paper assesses the convergence in eco-efficiency of a group of 22 OECD countries over the period 1980–2008. In doing so, three air pollutants representing the impact on the environment of economic activities are considered, namely, carbon dioxide (<InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$${\text{ CO}}_{2}$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>), nitrogen oxides...</equationsource></inlineequation>

We implement the “lens condition” of Deardoff [J. Inter. Econ. (1994), 36, 167-175], to investigate whether lumpiness, an excessively uneven geographic distribution of production factors, is large enough to allow for regional specialization of production at different factor prices. Using...

The authors conduct an empirical study of the Heckscher—Ohlin—Vanek (HOV) model of trade using regional data rather than country data. Findings for Spanish regions suggest that relaxing the assumption of world factor price equalization alone is not enough to improve the performance...