Package: pgt 0.7.1

Erik Enstad

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 technology of Hampf and Rodseth (2015) <doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2015.04.001>, scored by the minimal-emission programme of Rodseth (2025) <doi:10.1007/s11123-025-00768-0> with its directional representation and five-component decomposition, 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 a pre-estimation audit of every materials-balance account, metafrontier decompositions, bad-output shadow prices, marginal abatement cost curves, a cross-axiom comparison harness, a global Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index and subsampling sensitivity intervals. Estimators are solved with 'lpSolveAPI'.

Authors:Erik Enstad [aut, cre]

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# Install 'pgt' in R:
install.packages('pgt', repos = c('https://iik1.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/iik1/pgt/issues

Datasets:
  • pigfarms - Pig-finishing farms from Rodseth (2025), Table 1
  • steeldemo - Synthetic steel plant panel
  • uscoal - US coal-fired power plants with a measured SO2 account, 2022
  • usfgd - US coal-fired power plants with flue-gas desulphurisation, 2023

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Exports:boot_pgtboot_pgt_sensitivitycompare_modelsmac_curvemb_checkpgtpgt_decomposepgt_mlpgt_techshadow_prices

Dependencies:lpSolveAPI

Comparing axiom systems
Which axiom system for bad outputs? | Fitting each model | The comparison harness | References

Last update: 2026-10-13
Started: 2026-07-16

Introduction to pgt
The materials-balance principle | Building a technology | Auditing the identity before estimation | Estimating environmental efficiency | Shadow prices and abatement cost | Decomposing across production routes | A worked example on real data | References

Last update: 2026-10-13
Started: 2026-07-16

Productivity change and inference
Productivity change with a bad output | A constructed panel | A real rice panel | Subsampling inference | Coverage under a known data-generating process | References

Last update: 2026-10-13
Started: 2026-07-16

Replicating published results
Rødseth (2025), Table 2: minimal controlled emissions | Rødseth (2025), Table 3: the directional representation | Murty, Russell and Levkoff (2012): the by-production example | Coelli, Lauwers and Van Huylenbroeck (2007): coefficients and the EE = TE x EAE decomposition | References

Last update: 2026-10-13
Started: 2026-07-16

The estimating programmes
Weak-G-disposability (model = "wgd") | The input-fixed benchmark (model = "wgd_input_fixed") | The $(y, b)$ lower envelope (model = "envelope") | The directional representation (model = "fdmo") | The decomposition stage programmes (pgt_decompose(type = "rodseth")) | The materials-balance cost model (model = "mb_cost") | The by-production intersection (model = "byprod") | Weak disposability (model = "wd") | The productivity-index distances (pgt_ml()) | References

Last update: 2026-10-13
Started: 2026-07-16

Multiple pollutants and heterogeneous coefficients
A two-pollutant technology | Every pollutant's cap constrains the input-fixed benchmark | DMU-specific coefficients | The five-component decomposition | Several intended outputs | References

Last update: 2026-09-05
Started: 2026-07-16