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World trend in energy: an extension to DEA applied to energy and environment

This study proposes a use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess the performance of energy industries. The DEA is a nonparametric approach that does not assume any functional form for performance assessm...

Authors: Toshiyuki Sueyoshi and Mika Goto

Determining economic productivity under environmental and resource pressures: an empirical application

The current study is divided into two parts. Part I deals with the indices of resource and impact decoupling for 13 countries of the EU, for a period spanning from 1990 to 2011. Employing the major pressures, ...

Authors: Christina Bampatsou, George Halkos and Andreas Dimou

On the decomposition of total impact multipliers in a supply and use framework

This note describes a simple technique of decomposing total impact multipliers derived from input–output analysis. The approach uses a generalised supply and use table framework, explicitly distinguishing betw...

Authors: Thomas Wiedmann

Macroeconomic fluctuations in a New Keynesian disequilibrium model

This study extends the current New Keynesian modeling framework by changing one crucial aspect: it replaces the general equilibrium assumption by the arguably more realistic assumption of macroeconomic disequi...

Authors: Bas van Aarle

An input–output framework for analysing relationships between economic sectors and water use and intersectoral water relationships in Morocco

Over the last few decades, Morocco has been undergoing a strong and fast water demand increase due to demographic upsurge, irrigated agriculture expansion, flourishing foreign trade and changing standard of li...

Authors: Abdeslam Boudhar, Said Boudhar and Aomar Ibourk

Effects of farmers’ social networks on knowledge acquisition: lessons from agricultural training in rural Indonesia

Agricultural information is transferred through social interactions; therefore, ties to agricultural informants and network structures within farmers’ local neighborhoods determine their information-gathering ...

Authors: Ayu Pratiwi and Aya Suzuki

Damages to return with a possible occurrence of eco-technology innovation measured by DEA environmental assessment

Environmental assessment and pollution protection are important concerns in modern business and policy. Consumers are interested in corporate efforts on not only their products but also environmental protectio...

Authors: Toshiyuki Sueyoshi

Effects of balance transfer offers on consumer short-term finance: evidence from credit card data

This research investigates efficiency differences between two important financial approaches that credit card companies use to attract customers. Since the cash-back offer has been already investigated by prev...

Authors: Yan Yuan and Toshiyuki Sueyoshi

Feedback policy rules for government spending: an algorithmic approach

We present an algorithmic approach for the design of fiscal policy rules. In particular, using algorithmic feedback control techniques, we design linear feedback policy rules such that predetermined target lev...

Authors: Ilias Kostarakos and Stelios Kotsios

Which dynamic pricing rule is most preferred by consumers?—Application of choice experiment

This study investigates consumers’ preference for dynamic pricing rules using a choice experiment. Among alternative electricity pricing rules, time of use (TOU) is most preferred by consumers, and our estima...

Authors: Yumi Yoshida, Kenta Tanaka and Shunsuke Managi

The robustest clusters in the input–output networks: global \(\hbox {CO}_2\) emission clusters

Finding environmentally significant clusters in global supply-chain networks of goods and services has been investigated by Kagawa et al. (Soc Netw 35(3):423–438, 2013a; Econ Syst Res 25(3):265–286, 2013b; Glob E...

Authors: Omar Rifki, Hirotaka Ono and Shigemi Kagawa

Economic structures, institutions and economic performance

The contention that “inclusive” institutions are the deep determinants of economic growth remains unsatisfactory. This paper develops an alternative theoretical and empirical case that economic structures are ...

Authors: Collin Constantine

Repercussion effects of consumption by domestic tourists in Tokyo and Kyoto estimated using a regional waste input–output approach

As the economic importance of tourism increases, it is important to consider the effects that tourism has on the environment in the affected regions of the country. In our study, we selected two popular touris...

Authors: Makiko Tsukui, Takumi Ichikawa and Masaru Kagatsume

Consumption-based accounting of steel alloying elements and greenhouse gas emissions associated with the metal use: the case of Japan

Metal extraction and smelting cause considerable impacts on the environment. Consumption-based impact accounting highlights the responsibility of metal-consuming industries for the impacts and may drive a syst...

Authors: Hajime Ohno, Kazuyo Matsubae, Kenichi Nakajima, Keisuke Nansai, Yasuhiro Fukushima and Tetsuya Nagasaka

NAFTA trade (and some extra NAFTA trade) in value added and its distribution, 1995–2011

The trade deficit of the USA with its NAFTA partners, Mexico and Canada, increased since 1994 from 21,991 to 119,257 million dollars in 2013 (UNCOMTRADE, 2015.

Authors: Rosario Cervantes-Martínez, Jorge Villaseñor-Becerra and Martín Romero-Morett

Erratum to: Scale effect in Turkish manufacturing industry: stochastic metafrontier analysis

Authors: Saeid Hajihassaniasl and Recep Kök

Regional analysis of domestic integration in Egypt: an interregional CGE approach

We develop an interregional computable general equilibrium model to help assess the ex ante impact of transportation infrastructure policies in Egypt. The model is integrated with a GIS network. We illustrate ...

Authors: Eduardo Amaral Haddad, Michael L. Lahr, Dina N. Elshahawany and Moisés Vassallo

A social accounting matrix for Iraq

This paper deals with the challenges associated with the generation of a social accounting matrix (SAM) in conditions where up-to-date measured data are particularly scarce and provides future researchers of e...

Authors: Dario Debowicz

Erratum to: Understanding of economic spillover mechanism by structural path analysis: a case study of interregional social accounting matrix focused on institutional sectors in Japan

Authors: Hidekazu Itoh

Understanding of economic spillover mechanism by structural path analysis: a case study of interregional social accounting matrix focused on institutional sectors in Japan

The aim of this research is to introduce a multiregional social accounting matrix (SAM) in Japan evaluating the regional and interregional spillover effects of economic impacts and to show the impact flows of ...

Authors: Hidekazu Itoh

Electricity consumption and sectoral output in Uganda: an empirical investigation

We examine the causal relationship between electricity consumption and sectoral output growth in Uganda. First, we use vector error correction techniques to estimate the long-run relationship between electric...

Authors: Joseph Mawejje and Dorothy N. Mawejje

Global structural changes and their implication for territorial CO₂ emissions

This paper proposes a comprehensive decomposition method to estimate how changes in domestic economic scale, industrial composition, domestic technology, export scale of intermediate products, export compositi...

Authors: K. Shironitta

Labour productivity convergence and structural changes: simultaneous analysis at country, regional and industry levels

Many structural changes have occurred in the European Union countries, for example, there have been changes in sectoral employment share, in the demand of goods due to technology, in trade patterns and in tech...

Authors: Amjad Naveed and Nisar Ahmad

A macroeconomic mathematical model for the national income of a union of countries with interaction and trade

In this article, we assume a union of countries where each national economy interacts with the others. We propose a new model where (a) delayed variables are incorporated into the system of equations and (b) t...

Authors: Ioannis K. Dassios and Mel T. Devine

Identifying priority areas for European resource policies: a MRIO-based material footprint assessment

In the context of the transformation toward a “green economy,” issues related to natural resource use have rapidly increased in importance in European and international policy debates. The large number of stud...

Authors: Stefan Giljum, Hanspeter Wieland, Stephan Lutter, Martin Bruckner, Richard Wood, Arnold Tukker and Konstantin Stadler

Restructuring of the international clothing and textile trade network: the role of Italy and Portugal

Since the 1990s, the clothing and textile (C&T)-industry has been tremendously affected by changes in technology, trade costs, and the institutional environment. This paper studies the restructuring of C&T-tra...

Authors: Marlies Hanna Schütz and Nicole Palan

Toward a theory of Smart Institutions

We present an analytical approach to institutional analysis that draws inspiration from control process engineering in the physical sciences. We characterize smart institutions as having three foundational fea...

Authors: Prateek Goorha and Vijay Mohan

Structural changes, FDI, and economic growth: evidence from the Baltic states

Despite the fact that previous studies have extensively investigated the foreign direct investment (FDI)-growth nexus, those studies have not considered the role of terms of trade as a proxy for international ...

Authors: Manuchehr Irandoust

Scale effect in Turkish manufacturing industry: stochastic metafrontier analysis

Economic theories explain the economic growth affected by accumulation of production factors and increase in productivity and efficiency. Traditional growth theories focus on the first factor where in developi...

Authors: Saeid Hajihassaniasl and Recep Kök

The MDP Procedure for public goods and local strategy proofness

This paper revisits the family of MDP Procedures and analyzes their properties. It also reviews the procedure developed by Sato (Econ Stud Q 34:97–109, 1983) which achieves aggregate correct revelation in the sen...

Authors: Kimitoshi Sato

Effect of electricity system reform on retail electricity price increases in Japan

We examined the impact of the ongoing electricity system reform in Japan on social welfare, retail electricity service level and retail electricity prices. In our paper, the default system is monopolistic and ...

Authors: Eiji Sawada

Cobb–Douglas production function on FDI in Southeast Europe

In this research, we focus on effects of foreign direct investments in Southeast European economies. Using World Bank Microdata Library and specifically Enterprise Surveys, we take a sample of six countries. T...

Authors: Mico Apostolov

Estimating innovation input–output matrix and innovation linkages in the East Asian region and the USA

This paper develops a multi-sector innovation model and derives a theoretical and empirical framework for an innovation version of the input–output matrix. Using industry-level total factor productivity data,...

Authors: Tsutomu Harada

Determinants of current account imbalance in the global economy: a dynamic panel analysis

This paper presents an empirical investigation of the determinants of current account imbalance for the large sample of developed, emerging and developing countries during 1980–2011. Using dynamic panel GMM te...

Authors: Debasish Kumar Das

Interactive aspects of producers and waste-disposal firms out of a market boundary

This paper examines how environmentally friendly production and disposal of waste are promoted by interaction between producers and disposal firms out of a market boundary. Utilizing the dual nature of price a...

Authors: Eiji Hosoda

Estimating the growth effects of services sector: a cointegration analysis for Pakistan

This article empirically tests the hypothesis of Pugno (Struct Change Econ Dyn 17:99–115, 2006) that both business- and household-related services contribute in the economic growth of the country in the case of P...

Authors: Abdul Jalil, Samia Manan and Sundus Saleemi

A new approach of carbon emission allocation among stakeholders: an expansion of Multiregional and Multisectoral Dynamic Energy-Economic Model THERESIA

This paper aims at the assessment of the sectoral/regional partial participation in the global warming coalition applying the Multiregional and Multisectoral Dynamic Energy-Economic Model THERESIA based on GT...

Authors: Shunsuke Mori

Matching global cobalt demand under different scenarios for co-production and mining attractiveness

Many new and efficient technologies require ‘critical metals’ to function. These metals are often extracted as by-product of another metal, and their future supply is therefore dependent on mining developments...

Authors: Alexandre Tisserant and Stefan Pauliuk

The impact of adoption of power factor correction technology on electricity peak demand in Uganda

This paper examines the impact of adoption of power factor correction technology on electricity peak demand in Uganda. Specifically, the paper examines the variability of peak electricity demand in the periods...

Authors: Geofrey Okoboi and Joseph Mawejje

Changes in the input–output structures of the six regions of Fukushima, Japan: 3 years after the disaster

This study investigates the changes in input–output and trade structures within the six regions of the Fukushima prefecture in the aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and accident at the Fukushim...

Authors: Kiyoshi Yonemoto

Influence of income difference on carbon and material footprints for critical metals: the case of Japanese households

This study simultaneously analyzed the carbon and material footprints for three critical metals (neodymium, cobalt, and platinum) in Japanese households with different income levels. These metals are critical ...

Authors: Yosuke Shigetomi, Keisuke Nansai, Shigemi Kagawa and Susumu Tohno

Determinants of industrial output in Syria

This study attempts to investigate the determinants of industrial output in Syria over the period 1980–2010. The ADF unit root test, Johansen cointegration test, Granger causality test, impulse response funct...

Authors: Adel Shakeeb Mohsen, Soo Y. Chua and Che Normee Che Sab

Measuring the waste footprint of cities in Japan: an interregional waste input–output analysis

Metropolitan regions, which are typically planned without considering aspects related to sustainability, tend to depend on neighboring regions for their waste treatment, particularly for the disposal of solid ...

Authors: Makiko Tsukui, Shigemi Kagawa and Yasushi Kondo

Revisiting the quality of exports

In the context of world value chains, the manner in which production occurs has made more difficult to judge countries’ export quality, given that the international division of labor is arranged around phases ...

Authors: Gerardo Fujii-Gambero and Manuel García-Ramos

How scale and ownership are related to financial performance? A productivity analysis of the Chinese banking sector

This paper analyzes productivity with a directional distance function model by investigating convexity and non-convexity in the Chinese banking sector. Two primary findings are summarized. First, there is a di...

Authors: Carlos Barros, Hidemichi Fujii and Shunsuke Managi

Production analysis in environmental, resource, and infrastructure evaluation

Over the past several decades, significant efforts have been made to regulate the use of resource and pollution in most industrialized countries, and the stringency of pollution regulations has continued to in...

Authors: Shunsuke Managi and George Halkos

The relationship between the key sectors in the european union economy and the intra-European Union trade

The paper studies the properties of the productive structure of a region and national economies within the region. We use input–output data to calculate and compare input–output linkages and complex network me...

Authors: Martha G. Alatriste-Contreras

Does international trade improve environmental efficiency? An application of a super slacks-based measure of efficiency

This study analyzes the impact of international trade on environmental efficiency. Using a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model that allows us to treat undesirable outputs and super-efficiency beyond unity, w...

Authors: Satoshi Honma

Quality-adjusted productivity gain in the propagation of innovation

We introduce a class of production function whose inputs and outputs constitute multiples of quality and quantity. Under the efficiency unit approach, we precisely reduce innovation regarding qualitative and q...

Authors: Satoshi Nakano and Kazuhiko Nishimura

The effect of natural and man-made disasters on countries’ production efficiency

This study intends to understand how disaster is related to countries’ production efficiency using a sample of 137 countries over 1980–2011. We analyze the effect of the number of man-made and natural disaster...

Authors: George Halkos, Shunsuke Managi and Nickolaos G. Tzeremes