Energy efficiency and production technology heterogeneity in China: A meta-frontier DEA approach

Economic Modelling

Volumn 35, Issue , 2013, Pages 283-289

  Wang, Qunwei ^a,b   Zhao, Zengyao ^a   Zhou, Peng ^b   Zhou, Dequn ^b  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Inefficiency decomposition; Meta frontier DEA; Technology gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881528550     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2013.07.017     Document Type: Article

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