This paper addresses the question how team production promotes efficiency of a firm when some inputs can be rewarded on … with variable returns to scale is proposed to provide information on the efficiency performance for organizations with … in Taiwan. The result suggests that it is important to improve the efficiency of the non-profit oriented activities to …

Using the directional distance function we study a cross section of 110 countries to examine the efficiency of … emission intensity adjusted for technical efficiency. Only 10% of the countries are found to be on the frontier. Also, there is … considerable inter-country variation in the imputed opportunity cost of CO2 reduction. Further, differences in technical efficiency …

between innovation and economic efficiency.Where a patent holder's invention uses an interface with adjacentproducts, the …

impacts of energy efficiency increases over a sample population of consumers to quantify the proportion of households having … derive the incremental change in retail prices associated with increased manufacturing costs for improving energy efficiency. …

efficiency grades for the mandatory energy information label. In the Chinese standards process, the efficiency grades for the … support of METI/IEEJ, collaborated with CNIS to develop the efficiency grades, providing technical input to the process … of the label on China's market, CLASP further provided assistance to CNIS to collect data on both the efficiency …

The minimum energy efficiency standards program for household appliances in China was initiated in 1989. Since 1996 … efficiency requirements for implementation within 6 months of a standard's approval. Since 2003, China has adopted a new approach … a second tier at a more aggressive level of energy efficiency for implementation three to five years later. The second …

the form of decreased grid congestion, improved system reliability, market efficiency, price stabilization, hedging …