Satoshi Honma

• Professor (Full) at Tokai University

This paper examines the strong version of the Porter hypothesis (PH) using a huge international firm-level dataset of approximately 800,000 observations during 2010–2015. To examine the impacts of the environmental policy stringency (EPS) on firms’ inefficiency, this paper applies the technical inefficiency effects model of stochastic frontier anal...

This paper demonstrates how to compute the regional renewable energy generation (REG) efficiency by output-oriented dynamic slacks-based measure (DSBM) model proposed by Tone and Tsutsui (2010). The research objects are 47 administrative regions in Japan during 2016-2019. The annual average REG efficiency (REGE) scores of all regions and areas in J...

Recycling is an essential part of circular economy. This research constructs a two-stage waste generation and recycling activity model, selecting Japan as a case study object to explore its recycling efficiencies through this model. Japan’s regional recycling efficiency is assessed in two stages: waste collection as stage 1 and the treatment and pr...

This study uses the stochastic cost frontier models to investigate recycling cost efficiencies for 1,809 municipalities in Japan from 2011 to 2018. Our major findings are as follows. A U-shaped relationship exists between the waste management cost per ton and recycling rate. The current recycling rate in Japan is much higher than the per ton cost-m...

This research uses the slack‐based measure data envelopment analysis to compute the energy and emission efficiencies of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other Asian economies during the 2001–2017 period, employs the Malmquist productivity index to check for the main source of efficiency score changes due to technical changes, and...

Using the world panel dataset for the pollution emission embedded in international trade of 132 countries for the period between 1988 and 2008, we investigate whether the balance of embodied emission in trade (BEET) is consistent with the implication of pollution haven hypothesis. By using two differently constructed datasets, we are able to distin...

In this paper, we model international recycling in a two-country model, where firms in a Northern, developed country produce goods (such as electronic equipment) and recycle them, compared to firms in a Southern, developing country, which recycle “post-consumer” products (e-waste) imported from the Northern country. We investigate optimal tax-subsi...

This research follows the two-step output stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) approach of Huang et al. (2014), but instead applies the panel-data input SFA model proposed of Honma and Hu (2014) to estimate the total-factor energy efficiency (TFEE) of industries across countries in different years. The metafrontier TFEE denotes a product of the group...

To construct pollution terms of trade (PTT) on the basis of CO2 emissions, we implement the world input–output tables for 40 countries by 35 industries to account for intermediate trade. We examine whether the PTTs have converged among the 40 countries between 1995 and 2009. The empirical evidence supports PTT convergence; PTT growth is negatively...

This paper measures the metafrontier total-factor energy efficiency (TFEE) of 47 regions in Japan for the period 1996–2008, using the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). The two-step output-oriented SFA approach by Huang et al. (J Prod Anal 42:241–254, 2014) is followed but converted into a two-step input-oriented SFA approach. The metafrontier TFE...

This study analyzes the impact of international trade on environmental efficiency. Using a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model that allows us to treat undesirable outputs and super-efficiency beyond unity, we measure the environmental efficiency of four typical air pollutants—SO 2 , NOx, particulate matter 10 μm or less in diameter, and CO 2 —for...

We parametrically estimate total-factor energy efficiency (TFEE) scores for 10 industries in 14 developed countries for the period 1995-2005 using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) technique. The model includes four inputs (labor, capital stock, energy, and non-energy intermediate inputs) and one output (value added). Unlike previous studies that...

This study computes the environmental efficiency of 31 Asia-Pacific countries and regions for the year 2007, using the super slacks-based measurement data envelopment analysis approach. Efficiency measure allows us to identify the reduction potential for carbon emissions. The author subsequently examined an environmental Kuznets curve type relation...

h i g h l i g h t s This study compares Japan with other developed countries for energy efficiency at the industry level. We compute the total-factor energy efficiency (TFEE) for industries in 14 developed countries in 1995–2005. Energy conservation can be further optimized in Japan's industry sector. Japan experienced a slight decrease in the weig...

In this article, we measure the energy efficiency of 17 sectors in the Japanese economy during 1998– 2005 using data envelopment analysis (DEA), in which a total-factor framework is applied.We compute the total-factor energy efficiency, which is defined as the ratio of the target energy input suggested by the DEA to the actual energy inputs in a se...

This article uses both data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to analyze the efficiency of Japan’s major hotel companies between 2004 and 2008. This model includes four inputs and one output. DEA shows that more than half of these hotels use increasing returns to scale technologies and that they can become more effic...

This study computes and analyzes the total-factor energy efficiency (TFEE) of 11 industries in 14 developed countries during the period of 1995-2005 using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach. There are four inputs: labor, capital stock, intermediate inputs other than energy, and energy. The value added is the only output. The most ineffici...

Utilizing the world panel dataset for the pollution emission embedded in international trade for the period between 1988 and 2009, we investigated whether the composition of international trade of a country moved away from pollution-intensive industries as its income level rises. The empirical evidence suggests that the income levels of countries a...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a general theoretical model that describes production and recycling in an n-firm oligopoly market in which firms can cooperate for recycling. We use a three-stage game to analyze a specific recycling issue. In stage 0, the government sets a target recycling rate as well as virgin material and final disposal t...

This article computes the energy productivity changes of regions in Japan using total-factor frameworks based on data envelopment analysis (DEA). Since the traditional DEA-Malmquist index cannot analyze changes in single-factor productivity changes under the total-factor framework, we apply a new index proposed by Hu and Chang [2009. Total-factor e...

This paper computes efficient industrial waste and air pollutants abatements for 47 regions in Japan for the period 1992–2002. The variable-returns-to-scale (VRS) data envelopment analysis (DEA) with a single output (real GDP) and seven inputs (labor, real public capital stock, real private capital stock, industrial waste, sulfur oxide, nitrogen ox...

We study asymmetric pollution taxation on identical pol-luting oligopolists engaged in Cournot competition. It has been stud-ied that an identical firms must be treated symmetrically and that the second-best pollution tax is a uniform tax. But, asymmetric treatment of identical firms generates an aggregate cost-saving effect, which is oligopoly-spe...

We study a model which explains an politically determined pollution tax outcome under asymmetric duopoly. We assume an asym-metry of firms in the pollution emissions per unit of output. The pol-luting duopoly and three-stage political game are considered. We derive the equilibrium tax rate and show that it might excess the marginal ex-ternal damage...