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Forest fuel defined as branches and tops (GROT) of harvested trees represents a large share of forest biomass and is increasingly viewed as a potential energy source. This study assesses the economic potentials of forest bioenergy production in Swedish forests, using a network data envelopment...
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distance function approach, the purpose is to compare estimates of Luenberger total factor productivity indicators, including … 1990 to 2008, we explore to what extent excluding bad outputs leads to erroneous productivity measurement. The main … appropriate basis of productivity measurement. …
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The purpose of this paper is to include consumer satisfaction in the specification of productivity. We accomplish this … construct a Malmquist type of productivity index. As with the usual Malmquist productivity index, we can decompose productivity …
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This study models the joint production of good and bad output production and calculates traditional productivity when … power plants for 1985-1995 and compare rates of productivity and technical change for both types to gain an understanding of … the association between pollution abatement activities and traditional rates of productivity and technical change. While …
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capacity utilization measures, the authors show how these may be entered into measures of productivity. In particular, it is … shown how the Malmquist direct and indirect productivity measures are related to various measures of capacity utilization …
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the association between pollution abatement activities and changes in traditional productivity growth. After using the … activities on traditional measures of productivity, we use the joint production model to derive a new approach to determining the … association between traditional productivity growth and pollution abatement activities for U.S. coal-fired electric power plants …
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This paper introduces a decomposition of the Malmquist productivity index into component indexes. The motivation is to … derive an analogue of the decomposition of the Tornqvist index into productivity and quality change provided by Fixler and … productivity, Decomposition, Subvector homotheticity …
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distance function approach, the purpose is to compare estimates of Luenberger total factor productivity indicators, including … 1990 to 2008, we explore to what extent excluding bad outputs leads to erroneous productivity measurement. The main … appropriate basis of productivity measurement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105833
economics and operations research/management science to measure efficiency and productivity. The most familiar example is the …
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economics and operations research/management science to measure efficiency and productivity. The most familiar example is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175686