Technological externalities and environmental policy: How to simulate manure management regulation within a DEA framework

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 31-48

  Piot Lepetit, Isabelle ^a,b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b LERECO   (France)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Directional distance function; Environmental regulation; European nitrates directive; Nitrate pollution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894313486     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-010-0744-8     Document Type: Article

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