Efficiency at Energy Industry: A Comparison of Energy Consumption Efficiency among Asian Pacific Countries

Abstract

This paper proposes a scheme to estimate the technical efficiency of energy consumption and production and shadow prices of CO₂ emission in country‐level at Asia Pacific countries by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The result of technical efficiency estimation shows that there exists an heterogeneity and a substantial opportunity for improvement in technical efficiency at energy consumption and production across countries, specially in the CO₂ emission, which implies that more pollutant are spread in air. Each country will have the different willingness to pay for the additional CO₂ emission right and this result enables us to predict the competition in international CO₂ emission right market.

Citation

Kim, T. (2008), "Efficiency at Energy Industry: A Comparison of Energy Consumption Efficiency among Asian Pacific Countries", Asian Journal on Quality, Vol. 9 No. 3, pp. 113-121. https://doi.org/10.1108/15982688200800030