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Weak Disposability in Nonparametric
Production Analysis with Undesirable
Outputs
Timo KuosmanenWageningen University, The Netherlands
14th EAERE Annual Conference, 23-26 June 2005, Bremen, Germany
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Background
Production activities typically generate some environmentally detrimental undesirable outputs as side-products emissions, waste, noise, etc.
The treatment of undesirable outputs in nonparametric production analysis has recently attracted debate: Hailu and Veeman, AJAE 2001 Färe and Grosskopf, AJAE 2003 Hailu, AJAE 2003
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This paper
Shows that conventional formulations of weak disposability implicitly and unintentionally assume that all firms apply uniform abatement factors. It is usually cost efficient to abate emissions in
those firms where the marginal abatement costs are lowest.
Presents an alternative formulation of weak disposability that allows for non-uniform abatement factors
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Notation
Firms transform inputs to (good) outputs, which causes undesirable side-products (bads). Input quantities Output quantities Environmental bads
Production technology characterized by output set
1( ,..., ) NNx x x
1( ,..., ) MMv v v
1( ,..., ) JJw w w
( ) ( , ) can produce ( , )P x v w x v w
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Weak Disposability
Definition (Shephard, 1970): Outputs are weakly disposable if
and=>
( , ) ( )v w P x 0 1
( , ) ( ) v w P x
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Nonparametric production analysis
(also known as Activity Analysis or Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA))
Assume a sample of K observations Estimate output set P(x) by a set of output
vectors that consists of all observed output vectors output vectors that are feasible by the
maintained production assumptions and no other vectors
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Nonparametric production analysis
Maintained assumptions inputs x and (good) outputs v are freely
disposable bad outputs w are weakly disposable outputs sets P(x) are convex for all x
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Illustration
3 observations, the same amounts of inputs
w
v
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Illustration
Feasible set spanned by convexity
w
v
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Illustration
Feasible set spanned by convexity and free disposability of v
w
v
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Illustration
Feasible set spanned by convexity, free disposability of v, and weak disposability
w
v
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Shephard’s formulation – uniform
abatement outputs
bads
inputs
VRS
intensity weights
abatement factor
1
ˆ ( ) ( , ) : , 1,...,
K
k km m
k
z v v m MP x v w
1
, 1,...,
K
k kj j
k
z w w j J
1
, 1,...,K
k kn n
k
z x x n N
1
1
0, 1,...,
1, 1,...,
K
k
k
k
z
z k K
k K
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outputs
bads
inputs
VRS
intensity weights
K abatement factors
Generalized formulation
1
ˆ ( ) ( , ) : , 1,...,K
k k km m
k
z v v m M
P x v w
1
, 1,...,K
k k kj j
k
z w w j J
1
, 1,...,K
k kn n
k
z x x n N
1
1
0, 1,...,
0 1, 1,...,
Kk
k
k
k
z
z k K
k K
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Partition the intensity weights as
where represents the part of firm k’s output
that is abated through scaling down of activity level, i.e.,
represents the part of firm k’s output that remains active, i.e.,
Linearization
k k kz
k
k(1 )k k kz
k k kz
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outputs
bads
inputs
VRS
intensity weights
Linearized formulation
1
ˆ ( ) ( , ) : , 1,...,K
k km m
k
v v m M
P x v w
1
, 1,...,K
k kj j
k
w w j J
1
( ) , 1,...,K
k k kn n
k
x x n N
1
( ) 1
, 0, 1,...,
Kk k
k
k k k K
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Numerical example
Firm A Firm B Firm C
v 8 3 5
w 6 4 1
x 5 1 4
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Output sets: w not disposable
ˆ (1)NDP
B
A
C
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7w
v
ˆ (2)NDP
ˆ (3)NDP
ˆ (4)NDP
ˆ (5)NDP
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Output sets: weak disposability -
Shephard
C
A
B
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7w
v
ˆ (1)UAP
ˆ (2)UAP
ˆ (3)UAP
ˆ (4)UAP
ˆ (5)UAP
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Output sets: weak disposability – this
paper
C
A
B
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7w
v
ˆ (1)P
ˆ (2)P
ˆ (3)P
ˆ (4)P
ˆ (5)P
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Empirical significance Static environmental efficiency analysis Measurement of total productivity over time Estimation of abatement cost functions Etc...
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Methodological significance Production assumptions interact The fundamental ”minimum extrapolation principle” by Banker et al. (Management
Science 1984) can fail The minimum set that satisfies the maintained assumptions and contains all observations may
exclude production vectors that are feasible by the same set of assumptions
=> Need to reconsider the main principle of data envelopment analysis
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Further details... Paper accepted for publication in American
Journal of Agricultural Economics
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Thank you for your attention!