pgt: Data Envelopment Analysis for Pollution-Generating Technologies

Nonparametric efficiency analysis for pollution-generating technologies under the materials-balance principle. Implements the weak-G-disposability model of Rodseth (2025) <doi:10.1007/s11123-025-00768-0> and its factorially determined multi-output representation, the by-production intersection technology of Murty, Russell and Levkoff (2012) <doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2012.02.005>, the materials-balance cost model of Coelli, Lauwers and Van Huylenbroeck (2007) <doi:10.1007/s11123-007-0052-8> and a weak-disposability reference model, with an enforced materials-balance identity, a pre-estimation feasibility audit, metafrontier decompositions, bad-output shadow prices, marginal abatement cost curves, a cross-axiom comparison harness, a global Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index and subsampling inference. Estimators are solved with 'lpSolveAPI'.

Version: 0.5.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.0.0)
Imports: stats, graphics, utils, lpSolveAPI
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, frontier
Published: 2026-07-28
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.pgt (may not be active yet)
Author: Erik Enstad ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Erik Enstad <erik.enstad at nhh.no>
BugReports: https://github.com/iik1/pgt/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://github.com/iik1/pgt
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: pgt citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: pgt results

Documentation:

Reference manual: pgt.html , pgt.pdf
Vignettes: Comparing axiom systems (source, R code)
Introduction to pgt (source, R code)
The estimating programmes (source)
Multiple pollutants and heterogeneous coefficients (source, R code)
Productivity change and inference (source, R code)
Replicating published results (source, R code)

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Package source: pgt_0.5.0.tar.gz
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