TY - JOUR
T1 - Efficiency or technology adoption
T2 - A case study in waste-treatment technology
AU - Managi, Shunsuke
AU - Hibiki, Akira
AU - Shimane, Tetsuya
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Lucy O'Shea, anonymous referees and participants at the annual conferences of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies for helpful comments. The authors also gratefully acknowledge financial support from Ministry of Environment under the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research for Waste Treatment ( K1830 ) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science under the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research ( 24330070 ).
PY - 2014/5
Y1 - 2014/5
N2 - Improvements in the effectiveness and efficiency of supply-side waste management are necessary in many countries. In Japan, municipalities with limited budgets have delayed the introduction of new waste-management technologies. Thus, the central government has used subsidies to encourage municipalities to adopt certain new technologies to improve waste-management efficiency. In this study, we measure the efficiency of waste management and explore how technology is related to technical efficiency. We find that municipalities are likely to adopt less-efficient technologies and that the central government's policies are likely to promote inefficient technology adoption by local governments.
AB - Improvements in the effectiveness and efficiency of supply-side waste management are necessary in many countries. In Japan, municipalities with limited budgets have delayed the introduction of new waste-management technologies. Thus, the central government has used subsidies to encourage municipalities to adopt certain new technologies to improve waste-management efficiency. In this study, we measure the efficiency of waste management and explore how technology is related to technical efficiency. We find that municipalities are likely to adopt less-efficient technologies and that the central government's policies are likely to promote inefficient technology adoption by local governments.
KW - Efficiency
KW - Productivity
KW - Technology adoption
KW - Waste management
KW - Waste-treatment technology
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U2 - 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2013.09.002
DO - 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2013.09.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84896318907
SN - 0928-7655
VL - 36
SP - 586
EP - 600
JO - Resources and Energy Economics
JF - Resources and Energy Economics
IS - 2
ER -
