Measurement of agricultural total factor productivity growth incorporating environmental factors: A nutrients balance approach

Frontier models for evaluating environmental efficiency: an overview

“…As noted by Hoang and Coelli (2011), agricultural production activities, as part of an ecosystem, are regulated by the law of mass conversation, implying that the nutrients balance condition holds true. As such they argue that measures of efficiency and productivity growth in agricultural production have to satisfy the test of the materials balance condition.…”

“…Coelli et al (2007) demonstrated this violation using the materials balance approach for the groups of input-and output-oriented models and provided an application to Belgian pig farms, while Hoang and Coelli (2011) provided a proof for the directional distance functions and include an application to the agricultural industry in OECD countries. DEA was used in both cases.…”

Total Factor Productivity and the Bio Economy Effects

“…The following are some of the main feature of the data series used. : Directional distance function with direction vector g=(u,q) Take of (Hoang and Coelli, 2009) analysis because is important data and their significant contribution in the balance Bio Economy.…”

“…In Latin America the Bio Economy is a new perception that is being examined by a group of colleagues with the issue "The Bio Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards a socio economic research agenda" (Trigo, 2011).During the past three decades, the Bio Economic side effect of economic activities has received increasing attention in public debate where the environmental issues have been highlighting this debate (Hoang and Coelli, 2009). This paper intent to contribute to the efforts that other authors have been made to integrate Bio Economy concerns into traditional technical and socio economic performance measure, as well as made it in environmental concerns (Zúniga: 2011;Scheel, 2001;Tyteca, 1996).…”

Carbon dioxide emission standards for U.S. power plants: An efficiency analysis perspective

“…Mekaroonreung and Johnson (2012), Färe et al (1996Färe et al ( , 2007b, and Coggins and Swinton (1996)). However, the Färe et al (1989) modeling approach is criticized for not complying with physical laws, in particular with the materials balance condition (see Førsund (2009), Coelli et al (2007) and Hoang and Coelli (2011)). This is unfortunate in our setting since the materials balance condition is highly relevant for modeling air pollutant emissions from electricity generation.…”