This study proposes a new theoretical framework - modeling the joint production of good and bad outputs - to determine the association between pollution abatement activities and changes in traditional productivity growth. After using the joint production model to investigate the theoretical...

This paper introduces as an intertemporal variable cost indirect technology which permits technological change over time and allows for financial flexibility, i.e., intertemporal budgeting. It characterizes agencies which maximize outputs or services subject to the budget they face. We define...

The purpose of this chapter is to suggest a general framework for assessing the efficiency of health care in general, and health care interventions specifically. We begin with a three-pronged overview of assessing performance in health care which begins with what we call the budget or cost side...

This study derives the relationship between environmental production functions and environmental directional distance functions. These two approaches make different assumptions when modeling the joint production of good and bad outputs. The environmental production function credits a producer...