We estimate a distance function and derive producer shadow prices for SO2 and PM-10 emissions. The shadow prices are used to adjust a traditional measure of total factor productivity growth in order to account for the reallocation of inputs from production of the marketed output to pollution...

A Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is employed to account for both marketed output and the output of pollution abatement activities of U.S. state manufacturing sectors for 1974-1986. The index allows us to decompose the change in productivity into measures of change in efficiency and...

The modified data envelopment analysis (DEA) model used in this study models the joint production of good and bad outputs in order to determine the relative importance of factors associated with changes in SO2 emissions by manufacturing industries in the United States. This new decomposition...