Carl Pasurka
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Scopus Publications
- Productivity change with bad outputs: Data envelopment analysis aggregate joint production vs. data envelopment analysis input-output models
Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl A. Pasurka
European Journal of Operational Research, 2026 - Evaluating the employment effects of environmental regulation without abatement cost data: A nonparametric cost function approach
Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl A. Pasurka, Ron Shadbegian
Journal of Environmental Management, 2024
Environmental policymakers are concerned that environmental regulations reduce employment. A microeconomic analysis illustrates that environmental regulations have an uncertain effect on employment, making this an empirical question. A standard cost function model, used in the literature, requires a lot of data such as pollution abatement cost data to examine effects of environmental regulations on employment, but such survey data is not always available. In this paper, we develop a nonparametric cost function which alleviates the need for pollution abatement cost data. Our cost function, therefore, allows researchers and policy analysts to estimate employment changes associated with pollution abatement as well as measure the relative importance of other factors related to changes in employment with no pollution abatement cost data. Moreover, this is the first model using a cost function that incorporates the effect of structural change among industries within the economy on employment, which allows researchers to the examine how environmental regulations change the structure of the economy via a structural decomposition component. We illustrate how to operationalize our model using a balanced panel of industry-level data for 26 industries from 17 OECD countries (1995-2006). Our findings suggest that the change in employment due to regulatory induced increases in input costs exhibits both substantial variation among countries and substantial intra-country heterogeneity among industries. - Network production technologies for good and bad outputs
Moriah Bostian, Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Tommy Lundgren, Carl Pasurka
Encyclopedia of Energy Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, 2024 - Revealed pollution abatement costs revisited
Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl A. Pasurka
Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2023 - Ex Ante Costs Versus Ex Post Costs of the Large Municipal Waste Combustor Rule
Cynthia Morgan, Carl A. Pasurka
Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis, 2023
This article compares the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ex ante cost analysis of its 1995 Large Municipal Waste Combustor (MWC): New Source Performance Standards and Emissions Guidelines rule to an ex post assessment of its cost. Unlike many retrospective cost analyses, where ex post assessments are limited due to lack of data on compliance costs, this case study is unique because we located and used plant-level survey data from the U.S. Department of Energy and Governmental Advisory Associates in a comparison of ex ante and ex post costs of individual MWCs. We find the ex post capital expenditures for nitrogen oxide control systems are typically lower than the EPA ex ante estimates, while the ex post capital expenditures for mercury control systems tend to be higher than the EPA ex ante estimates. Finally, while we find a few outliers, the average ratio of ex post to ex ante capital expenditures for particulate matter and sulfur dioxide emissions control is near unity. - Estimating the cost of environmental regulations and technological change with limited information
Cynthia Morgan, Carl Pasurka, Ron Shadbegian, Anna Belova, Brendan Casey
Ecological Economics, 2023
In this paper we develop a modified production model to calculate changes in pollution abatement costs (PAC) when both data on bad outputs and information on the inputs assigned to pollution abatement activities are not available. To calculate the PAC of reducing bad output, we introduce a measure that captures variation in the abatement intensity of technologies used to reduce water discharges. We then decompose the change in PAC into three components to identify their relative contribution to changes in PAC: (1) changes in the level of inputs, (2) changes in pollution abatement intensity, and (3) technological change. We demonstrate how to calculate PAC and these three components using data from 1997 to 2007 on a sample of pulp mills required to comply with the effluent limits for dioxin set by the U.S. EPA's Cluster Rule. We find regulation-induced technological change is consistently associated with declining PAC, while both changes in inputs and abatement intensity are associated with increasing PAC. - Environmental regulation and green productivity growth: Evidence from Italian manufacturing industries
Daniela Lena, Carl A. Pasurka, Marco Cucculelli
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022 - Pollution abatement and employment
Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl A. Pasurka, Ron Shadbegian
Empirical Economics, 2018 - On endogenizing direction vectors in parametric directional distance function-based models
Rolf Färe, Carl Pasurka, Michael Vardanyan
European Journal of Operational Research, 2017 - Sources of airline productivity from carbon emissions: an analysis of operational performance under good and bad outputs
Boon Liat Lee, Clevo Wilson, Carl A. Pasurka, Hidemichi Fujii, Shunsuke Managi
Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2017 - Modeling pollution abatement technologies as a network
Rolf G. Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl A. Pasurka Jr.
New Directions in Productivity Measurement and Efficiency Analysis Counting the Environment and Natural Resources, 2017 - Technical change and pollution abatement costs
Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl Pasurka
European Journal of Operational Research, 2016 - The good, the bad, and the efficient: Productivity, efficiency, and technical change in the airline industry, 2004-11
Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 2015 - Potential gains from trading bad outputs: The case of U.S. electric power plants
Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl A. Pasurka
Resource and Energy Economics, 2014 - Tradable permits and unrealized gains from trade
Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl A. Pasurka, and
Energy Economics, 2013 - Do environmental regulations disproportionately affect small businesses? Evidence from the Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures survey
Randy A. Becker, Carl Pasurka, Ronald J. Shadbegian
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2013 - On nonparametric estimation: With a focus on agriculture
Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl Pasurka, Carlos Martins-Filho
Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2013 - Joint Production of Good and Bad Outputs with a Network Application
R. Färe, S. Grosskopf, C. Pasurka
Encyclopedia of Energy Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, 2013 - Environmental regulatory rigidity and employment in the electric power sector
Does Regulation Kill Jobs, 2013 - Substitutability among undesirable outputs
Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl A. Pasurka, William L. Weber
Applied Economics, 2012 - Toxic releases: An environmental performance index for coal-fired power plants
Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl A. Pasurka, and
Energy Economics, 2010 - Pollution abatement and productivity growth: Evidence from Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States
Deborah Vaughn Aiken, Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl A. Pasurka
Environmental and Resource Economics, 2009 - Perspectives on pollution abatement and competitiveness: Theory, data, and analyses
Carl Pasurka
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2008 - Pollution abatement activities and traditional productivity
Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl A. Pasurka
Ecological Economics, 2007 - Environmental production functions and environmental directional distance functions
R FARE, S GROSSKOPF, C PASURKAJR
Energy, 2007 - Social responsibility: U.S. power plants 1985-1998
Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl A. Pasurka
Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2006 - Decomposing electric power plant emissions within a joint production framework
Carl A. Pasurka
Energy Economics, 2006 - Adjusting the measurement of US manufacturing productivity for air pollution emissions control
Deborah Vaughn Aiken, Carl A. Pasurka
Resource and Energy Economics, 2003 - Technical change and measuring pollution abatement costs: An activity analysis framework
Carl A. Pasurka
Environmental and Resource Economics, 2001 - Accounting for air pollution emissions in measures of state manufacturing productivity growth
Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Carl A Pasurka, Jr.
Journal of Regional Science, 2001 - Effective rates of protection and the Fordney-McCumber and Smoot-Hawley tariff acts: Comment and revised estimates
Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman, Marc D. Hayford, Carl A. Pasurka
Applied Economics, 2000 - CGE model of pollution abatement processes for assessing the economic effects of environmental policy
Deborah Vaughn Nestor, Carl A. Pasurka
Economic Modelling, 1995 - ENVIRONMENT‐ECONOMIC ACCOUNTING AND INDICATORS OF THE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACTIVITIES
Deborah Vaughn Nestor, Carl A. Pasurka
Review of Income and Wealth, 1995 - Alternative specifications for environmental control costs in a general equilibrium framework
Deborah Vaughn Nestor, Carl A. Pasurka
Economics Letters, 1995 - The political economy of the Fordney-McCumber and Smoot-Hawley tariff acts
Marc Hayford, Carl A Pasurka
Explorations in Economic History, 1992 - Effective rates of protection and the Fordney-McCumber and Smoot-Hawley Tariff Acts
Marc D. Hayford, Carl A. Pasurka
Applied Economics, 1991 - The relative efficiency of slave agriculture: A reply
Richard Grabowski, Carl Pasurka
Applied Economics, 1991 - Technical, scale, and allocative efficiencies in US banking: an empirical investigation
Hassan Y. Aly, Richard Grabowski, Carl Pasurka, Nanda Rangan
Review of Economics Statistics, 1990 - A ray-homothetic production frontier and efficiency: grain farms in southern Illinois
RICHARD GRABOWSKI, STEVEN KRAFT, CARL PASURKA, HASSAN Y. ALY
European Review of Agricultural Economics, 1990 - The relative technical efficiency of slave and non-slave farms in southern agriculture
Eastern Economic Journal, 1989 - The relative efficiency of slave agriculture: An application of a stochastic production frontier
Richard Grabowski, Carl Pasurka
Applied Economics, 1989 - The effect of environmental regulations on the efficiency of electric utilities: 1969 versus 1975
R. Fare, S. Grosskopfand, C Pasurka
Applied Economics, 1989 - Technological change in Illinois agriculture: A reply
R Grabowski
Agricultural Economics, 1989 - 'Multilateral productivity comparisons when some outputs are undesirable: A nonparametric approach'
Rolf Faere, Shawna Grosskopf, C. A. K. Lovell, Carl Pasurka
Review of Economics and Statistics, 1989 - The relative technical efficiency of Northern and Southern US farms in 1860
Richard Grabowski, Carl Pasurka
Southern Economic Journal, 1988 - Farmer education and economic efficiency. Northern farms in 1860
Richard Grabowski, Carl Pasurka
Economics Letters, 1988 - THE TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF JAPANESE AGRICULTURE, 1878–1940
Richard GRABOWSKI, Carl PASURKA
Developing Economies, 1988 - The technical efficiency of US banks
Nanda Rangan, Richard Grabowski, Hassan Y. Aly, Carl Pasurka
Economics Letters, 1988 - Technological change in Illinois agriculture, 1982-1984
R Grabowski
Agricultural Economics, 1988 - Effects on relative efficiency in electric power generation due to environmental controls
R. Färe, S. Grosskopf, C. Pasurka
Resources and Energy, 1986 - Environmental control costs and u.s. effective rates of protection
Carl A. Pasurka
Public Finance Review, 1985 - The short-run impact of environmental protection costs on U.S. product prices
Carl A. Pasurka
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1984
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
- From Rhetoric to Reform: Civil Service Employment Structures and the Measurement of Government Efficiency
DV Aiken, CA Pasurka Jr
Available at SSRN 5516978 , 2025
2025 - Productivity change with bad outputs: Data envelopment analysis aggregate joint production vs. data envelopment analysis input-output models
R Färe, S Grosskopf, CA Pasurka Jr
European Journal of Operational Research , 2025
2025
Citations: 3 - Network production technologies for good and bad outputs
M Bostian, R Färe, S Grosskopf, T Lundgren, C Pasurka
Encyclopedia of energy, natural resource, and environmental economics 2, 56-68 , 2025
2025
Citations: 2 - Evaluating the employment effects of environmental regulation without abatement cost data: A nonparametric cost function approach
R Färe, S Grosskopf, CA Pasurka Jr, R Shadbegian
Journal of Environmental Management 350, 119309 , 2024
2024
Citations: 7 - Revealed pollution abatement costs revisited
R Färe, S Grosskopf, CA Pasurka Jr
Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 25 (4), 601-629 , 2023
2023
Citations: 4 - Ex Ante Costs Versus Ex Post Costs of the Large Municipal Waste Combustor Rule
C Morgan, CA Pasurka Jr
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 14 (2), 275-297 , 2023
2023
Citations: 1 - Estimating the cost of environmental regulations and technological change with limited information
C Morgan, C Pasurka, R Shadbegian, A Belova, B Casey
Ecological Economics 204, 107550 , 2023
2023
Citations: 9 - Environmental regulation and green productivity growth: Evidence from Italian manufacturing industries
D Lena, CA Pasurka, M Cucculelli
Technological Forecasting and Social Change 184, 121993 , 2022
2022
Citations: 66 - Ex Ante Costs vs. Ex Post Costs of the Large Municipal Waste Combustor Rule
C Morgan, C Pasurka
National Center for Environmental Economics-NCEE Working Papers , 2021
2021
Citations: 1 - Environmental Regulations and Technological Change: Pulp and Paper Mills and EPA’s Cluster Rule
A Belova, B Casey, C Morgan, C Pasurka, R Shadbegian
2020 - Pollution abatement and employment
R Färe, S Grosskopf, CA Pasurka Jr, R Shadbegian
Empirical economics 54 (1), 259-285 , 2018
2018
Citations: 23 - On endogenizing direction vectors in parametric directional distance function-based models
R Färe, C Pasurka, M Vardanyan
European Journal of Operational Research 262 (1), 361-369 , 2017
2017
Citations: 56 - FäreRolfEconomicsTradablePermitsUnrealized_AppendixB. pdf
R Färe, S Grosskopf, CA Pasurka Jr
2017 - FäreRolfEconomicsTradablePermitsUnrealized. pdf
R Färe, S Grosskopf, CA Pasurka Jr
2017 - Sources of airline productivity from carbon emissions: an analysis of operational performance under good and bad outputs.
LBL Lee BoonLiat, C Wilson, CA Pasurka, H Fujii, S Managi
2017 - Modeling pollution abatement technologies as a network
RG Färe, S Grosskopf, CA Pasurka Jr
New Directions in Productivity Measurement and Efficiency Analysis, 59-79 , 2017
2017
Citations: 6 - Sources of airline productivity from carbon emissions: an analysis of operational performance under good and bad outputs
BL Lee, C Wilson, CA Pasurka Jr, H Fujii, S Managi
Journal of Productivity Analysis 47 (3), 223-246 , 2017
2017
Citations: 46 - Technical change and pollution abatement costs
R Färe, S Grosskopf, C Pasurka
European Journal of Operational Research 248 (2), 715-724 , 2016
2016
Citations: 63 - The good, the bad, and the efficient: productivity, efficiency, and technical change in the airline industry, 2004–11
BL Lee, C Wilson, CA Pasurka Jr
Journal of Transport Economics and Policy (JTEP) 49 (2), 338-354 , 2015
2015
Citations: 22 - Ex ante and ex post cost estimates of the Cluster Rule and MACT II Rule
C Morgan, C Pasurka, R Shadbegian
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 5 (2), 195-224 , 2014
2014
Citations: 15
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
- Multilateral productivity comparisons when some outputs are undesirable: a nonparametric approach
R Färe, S Grosskopf, CAK Lovell, C Pasurka
The review of economics and statistics, 90-98 , 1989
1989
Citations: 2672 - Environmental production functions and environmental directional distance functions
R Färe, S Grosskopf, CA Pasurka Jr
Energy 32 (7), 1055-1066 , 2007
2007
Citations: 1185 - Technical, scale, and allocative efficiencies in US banking: An empirical investigation
HY Aly, R Grabowski, C Pasurka, N Rangan
The review of economics and statistics, 211-218 , 1990
1990
Citations: 971 - Accounting for air pollution emissions in measures of state manufacturing productivity growth
R Färe, S Grosskopf, CA Pasurka, Jr
Journal of regional science 41 (3), 381-409 , 2001
2001
Citations: 604 - The technical efficiency of US banks
N Rangan, R Grabowski, HY Aly, C Pasurka
Economics letters 28 (2), 169-175 , 1988
1988
Citations: 418 - Effects on relative efficiency in electric power generation due to environmental controls
R Färe, S Grosskopf, C Pasurka
Resources and energy 8 (2), 167-184 , 1986
1986
Citations: 251 - Decomposing electric power plant emissions within a joint production framework
CA Pasurka Jr
Energy Economics 28 (1), 26-43 , 2006
2006
Citations: 171 - Pollution abatement activities and traditional productivity
R Färe, S Grosskopf, CA Pasurka Jr
Ecological Economics 62 (3-4), 673-682 , 2007
2007
Citations: 170 - Do environmental regulations disproportionately affect small businesses? Evidence from the Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures survey
RA Becker, C Pasurka Jr, RJ Shadbegian
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 66 (3), 523-538 , 2013
2013
Citations: 128 - Potential gains from trading bad outputs: The case of US electric power plants
R Färe, S Grosskopf, CA Pasurka Jr
Resource and Energy Economics 36 (1), 99-112 , 2014
2014
Citations: 120 - Substitutability among undesirable outputs
R Färe, S Grosskopf, CA Pasurka Jr, WL Weber
Applied Economics 44 (1), 39-47 , 2012
2012
Citations: 98 - The effect of environmental regulations on the efficiency of electric utilities: 1969 versus 1975
R Fare, S Grosskopfand, C Pasurka
Applied Economics 21 (2), 225-235 , 1989
1989
Citations: 89 - Tradable permits and unrealized gains from trade
R Färe, S Grosskopf, CA Pasurka Jr
Energy economics 40, 416-424 , 2013
2013
Citations: 85 - Perspectives on pollution abatement and competitiveness: theory, data, and analyses
C Pasurka
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 2 (2), 194-218 , 2008
2008
Citations: 81 - Adjusting the measurement of US manufacturing productivity for air pollution emissions control
DV Aiken, CA Pasurka Jr
Resource and Energy Economics 25 (4), 329-351 , 2003
2003
Citations: 73 - Joint production of good and bad outputs with a network application
R Färe, S Grosskopf, C Pasurka
Encyclopedia of energy, natural resources and environmental economics 2, 109-118 , 2013
2013
Citations: 72 - Environmental regulation and green productivity growth: Evidence from Italian manufacturing industries
D Lena, CA Pasurka, M Cucculelli
Technological Forecasting and Social Change 184, 121993 , 2022
2022
Citations: 66 - Pollution abatement and productivity growth: Evidence from Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States
DV Aiken, R Färe, S Grosskopf, CA Pasurka Jr
Environmental and Resource Economics 44 (1), 11-28 , 2009
2009
Citations: 64 - Technical change and pollution abatement costs
R Färe, S Grosskopf, C Pasurka
European Journal of Operational Research 248 (2), 715-724 , 2016
2016
Citations: 63 - CGE model of pollution abatement processes for assessing the economic effects of environmental policy
DV Nestor, CA Pasurka Jr
Economic Modelling 12 (1), 53-59 , 1995
1995
Citations: 63
