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Efficient and sustainable bioenergy production in Swedish forests : a network DEA approach

Zhou, Wenchao; Bostian, Moriah; Färe, Rolf; Grosskopf, … - 2019

emissions from burning biomass. We apply the network DEA model to measure the revenue efficiency of forest production of Swedish … persistent economic inefficiencies of forest production in some counties, reducing the overall efficiency of Sweden's forest and …

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Efficiency and productivity : Malmquist and more

Färe, Rolf - In: The measurement of productive efficiency and …, (pp. 522 - 621). 2008

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Generalized quadratic revenue functions

Chambers, Robert G.; Färe, Rolf; Grosskopf, Shawna - 2008

In this paper we focus on specification of revenue functions in their dual price space. We consider two distance functions, both dual to the revenue function: Shephard output distance function and the directional output distance function, both in price space. The former is multiplicative,...

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Productivity : Should We Include Bads?

Färe, Rolf - 2012

This paper studies the interaction between economic and environmental performance. Applying the directional output distance function approach, the purpose is to compare estimates of Luenberger total factor productivity indicators, including and excluding bad outputs. Specifically, based on...

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Which Bad is Worst? An Application of Leif Johansen's Capacity Model

Färe, Rolf - 2013

The production of desirable (good) outputs is frequently accompanied by unintended production of undesirable (bad) outputs. If two or more of these undesirable outputs are produced as byproducts, one may ask: 'Which bad is worst?' By worst we mean which bad inhibits the production of desirable...

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Environmental Investment and Firm Performance : A Network Approach

Bostian, Moriah - 2015

energy efficiency over time. We employ a network DEA approach that links successive production technologies through … intertemporal investment decisions with a period by period estimation. This allows us to estimate energy efficiency and … environmental performance separately, as well as productivity change and its associated decompositions into efficiency change and …

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Generalized Quadratic Revenue Functions

Chambers, Robert G. - 2014

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Pollution Abatement Activities and Traditional Productivity

Färe, Rolf - 2014

This study models the joint production of good and bad output production and calculates traditional productivity when bad output production is regulated and when it is unregulated. We apply this model to data for U.S. coal-fired electric power plants for 1985-1995 and compare rates of...

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Prevention or cure? : abatement efficiency in a network technology

Bostian, Moriah; Färe, Rolf; Grosskopf, Shawna; … - 2019

stages, in order to improve overall abatement and production efficiency and better understand the tradeoffs between the two … managerial efficiency, and by policy makers to better target abatement incentives to the most effective aspects of production …

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A Note on Parameterizing Input Distance Functions: Does the Choice of a Functional Form Matter?

Färe, Rolf; Vardanyan, Michael - IÉSEG School of Management, Université Catholique de Lille - 2014

We use a Monte Carlo experiment to compare the quadratic and translog functional forms in terms of their ability to approximate known frontiers that possess convex curvature. Unlike some of the existing simulation studies that have studied this topic, we find that both functional forms provide a...

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