Shanghai, one of the most developed cities in China, is implementing a pilot regional carbon emission trading scheme. Estimating the marginal abatement costs of CO2 emissions for the industrial sectors covered in Shanghai's emission trading scheme provides the government and participating firms useful information for devising compliance policies. This paper employs multiple distance function ap...

Stoichiometric models of metabolism, such as flux balance analysis (FBA), are classically applied to predicting steady state rates - or fluxes - of metabolic reactions in genome-scale metabolic networks. Here we revisit the central assumption of FBA, i.e. that intracellular metabolites are at steady state, and show that deviations from flux balance (i.e. flux imbalances) are informative of some...

The paper estimates the shadow prices of SO2 emissions for 36 Czech industry sectors during the period 2000-2008. A convex nonparametric least squares quadratic optimization formulated by Mekaroonreung & Johnson (2012) is applied to measure technical efficiency and to jointly estimate the shadow prices of SO2 emissions. The weighted average shadow price ranges between 360€ and 1,316€ per ton of...

a r t i c l e i n f o Shadow price is one of the most important pieces of information in environmental decision making. Two different approaches—namely, economic and engineering—have been applied to obtain the shadow price of undesirable outputs, while using different methodological backgrounds and perspectives. The current study proposes a new conceptual framework and an economic estimation mo...

Search engines incur shadow costs whenever an advertisement negatively affects user experiences, which damages the search engine’s long-run revenue. We characterize the optimal mechanism for keyword advertising in a general framework that accommodates clickthrough rates and shadow costs that can differ across advertisers and positions. We show that shadow costs significantly affect how advertis...

Health plans paid by capitation have an incentive to distort the quality of services they offer to attract profitable and to deter unprofitable enrollees. We characterize plans' rationing as a "shadow price" on access to various areas of care and show how the profit maximizing shadow price depends on the dispersion in health costs, individuals' forecasts of their health costs, the correlation b...

Bertola/Caballero (1994) and Abel/Eberly (1996) extended Jorgenson’s classical model of …rms’optimal investment. By introducing investment frictions, they were able to capture the role of future anticipations in investment decisions as well as the lumpy and intermittent nature of investment dynamics. We extend Jorgenson’s model to the other direction of …nancing frictions. We construct a model ...

“Recessions are easily recognizable from a decrease in GDP. What really should interest us, however, is the difference between the potential of an economy and its actual performance” said Stiglitz in 2002. In the literature two approaches of productivity and efficiency analysis can be found, namely neoclassical approach and a frontier approach know as data envelopment analysis (DEA). Under neoc...