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Environmental Efficiency Assessment of Tunisian Thermal Power Plants in the Presence of Technological Heterogeneity: Non-Parametric Meta-Frontier Cover

Environmental Efficiency Assessment of Tunisian Thermal Power Plants in the Presence of Technological Heterogeneity: Non-Parametric Meta-Frontier

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Volume 13 (2025): Issue 2 (June 2025)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eoik-2025-0047 | Journal eISSN: 2303-5013 | Journal ISSN: 2303-5005
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Language: English
Page range: 415 - 438
Submitted on: Feb 4, 2025
Accepted on: May 29, 2025
Published on: Jun 5, 2025
Published by: Oikos Institut d.o.o.
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Keywords:
Environmental Efficiency,
Hyperbolic Distance Function,
Meta-Frontier,
Power Plant,
CO Emissions
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Political economics,
Economic theory, systems and structures,
Microeconomics,
Macroeconomics,
Public finance and fiscal theory

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