Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/43134 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics No. 198
Publisher: 
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Department of Law and Economics, Darmstadt
Abstract: 
We conduct an empirical analysis of the technical efficiency of cars sold in Germany in 2010. The analysis is performed using traditional data envelopment analysis (DEA) as well as directional distance functions (DDF). The approach of DDF allows incorporating the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions as an environmental goal in the efficiency analysis. A frontier separation approach is used to gain deeper insight for different car classes and regions of origin. Natural gas driven cars and sports-utility-vehicles are also treated as different groups. The results show that the efficiency measurement is significantly influenced by the incorporation of carbon dioxide emissions. Moreover, we find that there is indeed a trade-off between technological performance and environmental performance.
Subjects: 
nonparametric efficiency measurement
directional distance function
automobiles
air pollution
JEL: 
C14
L62
Q53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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