Marginal Rate of Transformation and Rate of Substitution measured by DEA environmental assessment: Comparison among European and North American nations

This study discusses the new use of DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) environmental assessment to measure MRT (Marginal Rate of Transformation) and RS (Rate of Substitution) among production factors (e.g., inputs, desirable and undesirable outputs). To measure the degree on MRT and RS, this study first examines a concept of disposability from the perspective of economic strategies to combat various environmental issues. The strategies are extendable to a policy change for pollution prevention. The underlying concept is separated into natural and managerial disposability. Under managerial disposability, it is possible for us to measure an occurrence of desirable congestion, or eco-technology innovation. Considering the disposability concept, this study discusses how to measure the type and magnitude of MRT and RS. A problem of the MRT & RS measurement is that these measures usually become unstable (e.g., very large or small in these magnitudes) because DEA does not assume any functional form for economic activities. To overcome such a difficulty, this study equips DEA environmental assessment with multiplier restriction by utilizing a unique feature on a proposed data treatment. The multiplier restriction in DEA has been never explored in previous works on environmental assessment. In an application, this study finds three important economic concerns on Europe and North America. First, Western Europe outperforms Eastern Europe and North America in their unified efficiency measures under managerial disposability. This study statistically confirms a difference between Western and Eastern Europe, but not between Western Europe and North America. This result exhibits that Eastern Europe is not yet well developed at the level of the other two regions. Second, Eastern Europe has exhibited MRT estimates that are different from Western Europe and North America. The nations in Eastern Europe have an economic potential for industrial developments because the level of their industrial pollutions is less than that of the other two regions. The potential is also found in their MRT estimates. Finally, an interesting difference can be found in the RS estimate between Eastern Europe and Western Europe from 2008 to 2012. They have statistically exhibited a difference between the two regimes, but not with North America. This is because most nations in both Western Europe and North America have already attained a high level of economic successes so that they have a limited industrial potential under current production technology and eco-technology. The situation of the two regions will be changed along with new technology development. In contrast, Eastern Europe is different from the other two regions in terms of attaining such a level of social sustainability because of limited capital accumulation and limited opportunity for technology innovation.

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