Honma, Satoshi; Hu, Jin-Li - In: Journal of Economic Structures 7 (2018) 21, pp. 1-16
This paper measures the metafrontier total-factor energy efficiency (TFEE) of 47 regions in Japan for the period 1996-2008, using the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). The two-step output-oriented SFA approach by Huang et al. (J Prod Anal 42:241-254, 2014) is followed but converted into a...
