Are the Energy Efficiency Technologies efficient?

Economic Modelling

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 274-283

  Kounetas, Kostas ^a   Tsekouras, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Energy Efficient Technologies; Non neutral frontiers; Productive efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 71149106462     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2009.09.007     Document Type: Article

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