Honma, Satoshi; Hu, Jin-li - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 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...
