Voluntary environmental agreements have been popular with government agencies in several countries. However, many questions remain about their efficiency as a regulatory tool. Recent analyses suggest that they are more effective than classical regulatory or economic approaches when dealing with...

This study analyzes the impact of international trade on environmental efficiency. Using a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model that allows us to treat undesirable outputs and super-efficiency beyond unity, we measure the environmental efficiency of four typical air pollutants-SO 2 , NOx,...

This study analyzes environmental efficiency, and its determinants, for 98 countries in terms of four typical air pollutants—SO2, NOx, particulate matter 10 micrometers or less in diameter (PM10), and CO2—for the period 1970–2008. For this purpose, I propose a super slacks-based measure...

In recent years, renewable energy and environmental efficiency have been interesting issues for both academics and industry actors when discussing sustainable development. Against this background, the present study examines the environmental efficiency of renewable energy from the static and the...

This study computes and analyzes the environmental and economic efficiencies of 31 Asia-Pacific countries and regions in 2007, using the slack-based measurement (SBM) data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach. Four economies, Brunei, Macao, Samoa, and Singapore, are found to be environmentally...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has gained much popularity in performance measurement of power industry. This paper presents a slack-based measure approach to investigating the relationship between fossil fuel consumption and the environmental regulation of China's thermal power generation. We...

This paper applies the probabilistic approach developed by Daraio and Simar (J Prod Anal 24:93–121, <CitationRef CitationID="CR13">2005</CitationRef>, Advanced robust and nonparametric methods in efficiency analysis. Springer Science, New York, <CitationRef CitationID="CR14">2007a</CitationRef>, J Prod Anal 28:13–32, <CitationRef CitationID="CR15">2007b</CitationRef>) in order to develop conditional and unconditional data...</citationref></citationref></citationref>

The objective of this paper is to assess the environmental performance of Turkish provinces by using a non-parametric method, Data Envelopment Analysis. The results of ranking are based on the provinces’ ability to produce the largest equi-proportional increase in the desirable output-gross...