Environmental Productivity Growth in Consumer Durables

Can Omitted Carbon Abatement Explain Productivity Stagnation? Quantile Shadow-Price Fisher Index Applied to OECD Countries

“…Recently, stochastic nonparametric envelopment of data (StoNED) has been developed as a unified framework that integrates the strengths of both DEA and SFA, effectively bridging the gap between these two approaches (Kuosmanen and Kortelainen, 2012). StoNED has been used to estimate the Malmquist index (e.g., Kuosmanen, 2013;Zhou, 2018). However, these full frontier approaches ignore the impact of inefficiency and are sensitive to outliers and the choice of the direction vector (Kuosmanen and Zhou, 2021), which may yield an inaccurate Malmquist green TFP estimate.…”

What drives decarbonization of new passenger cars?

“…Built upon a solid foundation of the production theory, the Malmquist index can measure and decompose TFP (especially green TFP in recent years) growth in production units from consumer durables (e.g., Zhou, 2018) to individual firms or establishments (e.g., He et al, 2013;Arabi et al, 2014;Boussemart et al, 2019), sectors (e.g., Kuosmanen, 2013;Emrouznejad & Yang, 2016), and regions or countries (e.g., Aparicio et al, 2017;Du et al, 2018). In addition to TFP measures, the decomposition of economic efficiency to allocative, technical, and scale efficiency components has received continuous and significant attention (see, e.g., Färe et al, 2019).…”