Environment-adjusted total-factor energy efficiency of Taiwan's service sectors

Energy Policy

Volumn 63, Issue , 2013, Pages 1160-1168

  Fang, Chin Yi ^a   Hu, Jin Li ^b   Lou, Tze Kai ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Environment adjusted total factor energy efficiency (EATFEE); Panel random effects Tobit regression

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; INVESTMENTS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS APPROACH; EFFICIENCY SAVINGS; ENERGY SAVING TARGETS; ENVIRONMENT-ADJUSTED TOTAL-FACTOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY; PANEL RANDOM-EFFECT TOBIT REGRESSION; PURE TECHNICAL EFFICIENCIES; RANDOM EFFECTS; SERVICE SECTORS; TOBIT REGRESSION; TOTAL FACTOR ENERGY EFFICIENCIES;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY USE; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETURNS TO SCALE; SERVICE SECTOR;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84887197274     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.07.124     Document Type: Article

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