Search Results - subject:"Directional distance Function"

Dynamic Productivity Growth in the Spanish Meat Industry

Kapelko, Magdalena; Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M.; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012

This paper develops a dynamic Luenberger productivity growth indicator and decomposes it to identify the contributions of technical change, technical efficiency change and scale change. The Luenberger productivity growth indicator is estimated using Data Envelopment Analysis. The empirical...

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Performance of the health care industry: the Italian case study

Falavigna, Greta; Ippoliti, Roberto; Manello, Alessandro - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2012

Considering the Italian healthcare system, the present study analyzes the aspects that might affect the efficiency of Italian hospitals. In this work, the authors analyze what influences a specific definition of efficiency, which is calculated maximizing healthcare production but minimizing...

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Synergies and Trade-offs between Climate and Local Air Pollution: Policies in Sweden

Bonilla, Jorge; Coria, Jessica; Sterner, Thomas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

In this paper, we explore the synergies and tradeoffs between abatement of global and local pollution. We built a unique dataset of Swedish heat and power plants with detailed boiler-level data 2001-2009 on not only production and inputs but also emissions of CO2 and NOx. Both pollutants are...

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A UNIVERSAL SOLUTION FOR UNITS - INVARIANCE IN DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS

XU, Jin; ZERVOPOULOS, Panagiotis D.; QIAN, Zhenhua; … - In: Theoretical and Practical Research in Economic Fields III (2012) 2, pp. 124-131

The directional distance function model is a generalization of the radial model in data envelopment analysis (DEA). The … directional distance function model is appropriate for dealing with cases where undesirable outputs exist. However, it is not a … models. Based on normalized data, a units-invariant efficiency measure for the directional distance function model is defined. …

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Industry structural inefficiency and potential gains from mergers and break-ups : an empirical approach

Peyrache, Antonio - 2012

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On the discrepancy in the social efficiency measures between parametric and non-parametric production technology identification

Ha, Hun Koo; Kaneko, Shinji; Yoshida, Yuichiro; Zhang, … - In: Journal of air transport management 58 (2017), pp. 9-14

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Balancing economic revenue and grazing pressure of livestock grazing on the Qinghai-Tibetan-Plateau

Huang, Wei; Bruemmer, Bernhard - In: The Australian journal of agricultural and resource … 61 (2017) 4, pp. 645-662

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Dynamic network DEA approach with diversification to multi-period performance evaluation of funds

Lin, Ruiyue; Chen, Zhiping; Hu, Qianhui; Li, Zongxin - In: OR spectrum : quantitative approaches in management 39 (2017) 3, pp. 821-860

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On endogenizing direction vectors in parametric directional distance function-based models

Färe, Rolf; Pasurka, Carl A.; Vardanyan, Michael - In: European journal of operational research : EJOR 262 (2017) 1, pp. 361-369

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Environmental policy design, innovation and efficiency gains in electricity generation

Johnstone, Nick; Managi, Shunsuke; Cárdenas … - In: Energy economics 63 (2017), pp. 106-115

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