Improve technical efficiency of China's coal-fired power enterprises: Taking a coal-fired-withdrawl context
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Coal-fired power enterprises; Technical efficiency; Stochastic frontier analysis; China;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
- L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
- Q4 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy
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