This study distinguishes factor/output substitution and shift of production technology frontiers. Our model includes by-product of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide emissions, in which the function requires the simultaneous reductions of the emissions and expansion of good outputs. On world...

We assess the efficiency of urban water supply in 27 Indian cities using data envelopment analysis (DEA). We also group cities by the management structure of their water utilities. Utilities with greater degree of functional autonomy perform better, supporting the hypothesis that more autonomy...

This study estimates allowance price induced technological progress using directional output distance function for a panel data of 80 plants of US fossil fuelled electricity generating industry over the period 1995 to 2001. This application yields several important insights. First, we observe...

This paper reports a survey study of willingness to pay for air quality improvement at Panipat Thermal Power Station (PTPS) colony, Panipat, India based on referendum contingent valuation (CV) approach. The results show that people in PTPS colony were willing to pay about two percent of their...

We measure energy price induced technological progress using directional distance function for a panel data of 55 countries over the period 1974 to 2000 and find several important insights. First, we observe larger induced technological change effects in developed countries in the periods after...

This study assesses the oil prices-macaroeconomy relationship by means of multivariate VAR using both linear and non-linear specifications. Scaled oil prices model outperforms other models used in the study. It studies the impacts of oil price shocks on the growth of industrial production for...

This study investigates the water demand of Indian manufacturing plants. It adopts an input distance function approach and approximates it by a translog form. Duality between cost function and input distance function is exploited to retrieve information concerning substitutability and the shadow...

Total factor productivity (TFP) growth in industrial manufacturing is measured for 15 major Indian states for the period 1982-83 to 2000-01 using non-parametric linear programming methods. TFP growth is decomposed into efficiency and technological changes and also measure for the bias in...