Search Results - subject:"Directional distance Function"

Decomposition of the environmental inefficiency of the meta-frontier with undesirable output

Chiu, Ching-ren; Liou, Je-liang; Wu, Pei-Ing; Fang, … - In: Energy economics 34 (2012) 5, pp. 1392-1399

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Productivity growth and environmental regulations - accounting for undesirable outputs: Analysis of China's thirty provincial regions using the Malmquist–Luenberger index

Zhang, Chunhong; Liu, Haiying; Bressers, Hans Th.A.; … - In: Ecological Economics 70 (2011) 12, pp. 2369-2379

components (technical and efficiency changes) are derived from the directional distance function which gives credit for an …

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Corporate Environmental Management and Environmental Efficiency

Khanna, Madhu; Kumar, Surender - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 50 (2011) 2, pp. 227-242

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POTENTIAL CLIMATE EFFECT ON JAPANESE RICE PRODUCTIVITY

TANAKA, KENTA; MANAGI, SHUNSUKE; KONDO, KATSUNOBU; … - In: Climate Change Economics (CCE) 02 (2011) 03, pp. 237-255

production efficiency. In this paper, we use the bi-directional distance function method to measure Japanese rice production loss …

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Tangency Capacity Notions Based upon the Profit and Cost Functions: A Non-Parametric Approach and a General Comparison

Briec, Walter; Kerstens, Kristiaan; Prior, Diego; Van … - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, … - 2010

This contribution provides a way to define and compute a tangency notion of economic capacity based upon the relation between the various directional distance functions and the profit and cost functions using non-parametric technologies. A new result relating profit and cost function-based...

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A global Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index

Oh, Dong-hyun - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 34 (2010) 3, pp. 183-197

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The impact of CON regulation on hospital efficiency

Ferrier, Gary; Leleu, Hervé; Valdmanis, Vivian - In: Health Care Management Science 13 (2010) 1, pp. 84-100

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Technical Efficiency of Automobiles – A Nonparametric Approach Incorporating Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Hampf, Benjamin; Krüger, Jens - Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2010

We conduct an empirical analysis of the technical efficiency of cars sold in Germany in 2010. The analysis is performed using traditional data envelopment analysis (DEA) as well as directional distance functions (DDF). The approach of DDF allows incorporating the reduction of carbon dioxide...

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Animals' health control efficiency in Northwest Portugal : a two-stage DEA approach

Costa, Leonardo; Oude Lansink, Alfons G. J. M.; Silva, … - In: Acta agriculturae Scandinavica / C : an official … 7 (2010) 2/4, pp. 197-208

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Ecological Benchmarking to Explore Alternative Fishing Schemes to Protect Endangered Species by Substitution: The Danish Demersal Fishery in the North Sea

Kjærsgaard, Jens; Vestergaard, Niels; Kerstens, Kristiaan - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 43 (2009) 4, pp. 573-590

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