Browsing TØI Vitenarkiv by Author "Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold"
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A note on input congestion
Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-06-26)The notion of effective space is introduced, and input congestion is explained by economic activities’ exhaustion of effective space. In this setting, I show that profit maximization is inconsistent with input congestion ... -
A review of guidelines for including wider economic impacts in transport appraisal
Wangsness, Paal Brevik; Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold; Hansen, Wiljar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-08-09)In this paper we examine how 23 industrialised countries treat wider economic impacts (WEIs) in transport appraisals. We identify 12 different types of impacts based on these countries’ appraisal guidelines. Agglomeration ... -
Axioms of a Polluting Technology: A Materials Balance Approach
Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-10-17)This paper aims to present an economic model characterized by a set of axioms that are consistent with the laws of thermodynamics. Two new axioms—weak G-disposability (i.e., weak directional disposability) and output ... -
Capturing the least costly way of reducing pollution: A shadow price approach
Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-05-18)The production analysis literature is increasingly concerned with estimating marginal abatement costs. Yet, most studies do not emphasize the ways in which pollutants may be reduced and their costs, which makes them unable ... -
Carbon dioxide emission standards for U.S. power plants: An efficiency analysis perspective
Hampf, Benjamin; Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-04-14)On June 25, 2013, President Obama announced his plan to introduce carbon dioxide emission standards for electricity generation. This paper proposes an efficiency analysis approach that addresses which emission rates (and ... -
Decomposing growth in Norwegian seaport container throughput and associated air pollution
Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold; Schøyen, Halvor; Wangsness, Paal Brevik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06-19)While policy makers worldwide view maritime transport as a sustainable alternative to road freight transport, increased cargo volumes by sea inevitably boost activities in ports that are in the proximity of where people ... -
Does Regular School Transport Influence the Provision of Public Transport Services? Evidence From Norway
Aarhaug, Jørgen; Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-06-13)Basic education and public transport services are often provided by local or regional governments. In Norway, they fall within the remit of two different tiers of government, with public transport being the responsibility ... -
Efficiency measurement when producers control pollutants: a non-parametric approach
Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-01-18)This paper treats efficiency measurement when some outputs are undesirable and producers control pollutants by end-of-pipe or change-in-process abatement. A data envelopment analysis framework that compares producers with ... -
Environmental efficiency measurement and the materials balance condition reconsidered
Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-11-11)This note takes up a shortcoming of Coelli et al.’s (2007) popular environmental efficiency measure and its extension to economic-environmental trade-off analysis (see Van Meensel et al. (2010)), namely that they do not ... -
Environmental regulations and allocative efficiency: application to coal-to-gas substitution in the U.S. electricity sector
Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-02-23)The environmental economics literature has for a long time been occupied with the relationships between environmental regulations, technical efficiency, and productivity growth. This paper extends this discussion by taking ... -
How do economies of density in container handling operations affect ships’ time and emissions in port? Evidence from Norwegian container terminals
Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold; Wangsness, Paal Brevik; Schøyen, Halvor (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-02-20)Efficient port services are prerequisites for competitive and sustainable maritime transports. This paper makes advances in studying the determinants of the time that ships spend in port and the associated emissions to ... -
Optimal profits under environmental regulation: the benefits from emission intensity averaging
Hampf, Benjamin; Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-09-22)In this paper we analyze the economic effects of implementing EPA’s newly proposed regulations for carbon dioxide (CO2) on existing U.S. coal-fired power plants using nonparametric methods on a sample of 144 electricity ... -
Port efficiency and emissions from ships at berth: application to the Norwegian port sector
Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold; Wangsness, Paal Brevik; Schøyen, Halvor; Førsund, Finn R (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12-03)This paper explores how port efficiency affects the time that ships spend in port and therefore their atmospheric emissions whilst berthed. While the literature on port productivity and efficiency measurement largely ignores ... -
Productivity growth in urban freight transport: An index number approach
Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-03-18)Improvement of operational efficiency is a common goal of most governmental freight transport policies. Productivity and efficiency analysis consequently provides a sound knowledge base. This paper illustrates how axiomatic ... -
Vehicle choices and urban transport externalities. Are Norwegian policy makers getting it right?
Wangsness, Paal Brevik; Proost, Stef; Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-15)Norway has the world’s highest share of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in its passenger car fleet, thanks to a set of policies that has included high purchase taxes for fossil fueled cars, and no tolls, no VAT, and free ...