Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/201198 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Department of Economic Policy Working Paper Series No. 4
Publisher: 
University of Economics in Bratislava, Department of Economic Policy, Bratislava
Abstract: 
We measure eco-efficiency of an economy by means of an augmented Leontief input-output model extended by constraints for primary inputs. Using a multi-objective optimization model the eco-efficiency frontier of the economy is generated. The results of these multi-objective optimization problems define eco-efficient virtual decision making units (DMUs). The eco-efficiency is obtained as a solution of a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model with virtual DMUs defining the potential and a DMU describing the actual performance of the economy. In this paper the procedure is extended to an intertemporal approach in the spirit of the Luenberger productivity indicator. This indicator permits decomposing eco-productivity change into eco-efficiency change and eco-technical change. The indicator is then further decompounded in a way that enables us to examine the contributions of individual production factors, undesirable as well as desirable outputs to eco-productivity change over time. For illustration purposes the proposed model is applied to investigate eco-productivity growth of the Austrian economy.
Subjects: 
Data Envelopment Analysis
Luenberger Indicator
Multi-Objective Optimization
Neoclassical Growth Accounting
JEL: 
C67
O47
Q53
Q57
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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