Environmental efficiency evaluation of China based on a kind of congestion and undesirable output coefficient

Panoeconomicus

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 453-468

  Song, Malin ^a   Wang, Shuhong ^b  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Congestion; Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Environmental efficiency; Technological change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942304852     PISSN: 1452595X     EISSN: 22172386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/PAN1504453S     Document Type: Article

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