Hoang, Viet-Ngu; Coelli, Tim - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 62 (2011) 3, pp. 462-474
This article proposes to use nutrient-orientated environmental efficiency (EE) measures to construct a nutrient total factor productivity index (NTFP). Since nutrient-orientated EE measures are consistent with the materials balance principle, NTFP index is superior to other existing TFP indexes....