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Efficiency measurement of Chinese airports with flight delays by directional distance function

Fan, L.W.; Wu, F.; Zhou, P. - In: Journal of Air Transport Management 34 (2014) C, pp. 140-145

This paper employs directional distance function to evaluate the technical efficiency of twenty major Chinese airports …

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Sources of the potential CO2 emission reduction in China: A nonparametric metafrontier approach

Du, Kerui; Lu, Huang; Yu, Kun - In: Applied Energy 115 (2014) C, pp. 491-501

Taking the underlying technology heterogeneity into account, this paper uses a nonparametric metafrontier approach to estimate the CO2 emission efficiency and the potential emission reduction of China’s 30 provinces for the period 2006–2010. The sources of the potential emission reduction...

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Non-separable pollution control: Implications for a CO2 emissions cap and trade system

Agee, Mark D.; Atkinson, Scott E.; Crocker, Thomas D.; … - In: Resource and Energy Economics 36 (2014) 1, pp. 64-82

2 emissions, we estimate a multiple-input, multiple-output directional distance function combining good inputs …

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The effect of size-control policy on unified energy and carbon efficiency for Chinese fossil fuel power plants

Zhang, Ning; Kong, Fanbin; Choi, Yongrok; Zhou, P. - In: Energy Policy 70 (2014) C, pp. 193-200

fossil fuel electricity generation. One is named a total-factor directional distance function that incorporates the … plants, and the other is called an energy–environmental directional distance function that can be used to measure the energy …

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Cost, revenue and profit efficiency measurement in DEA: A directional distance function approach

Sahoo, Biresh K.; Mehdiloozad, Mahmood; Tone, Kaoru - In: European Journal of Operational Research 237 (2014) 3, pp. 921-931

Estimation of efficiency of firms in a non-competitive market characterized by heterogeneous inputs and outputs along with their varying prices is questionable when factor-based technology sets are used in data envelopment analysis (DEA). In this scenario, a value-based technology becomes an...

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Technological externalities and environmental policy: how to simulate manure management regulation within a DEA framework

Piot-Lepetit, Isabelle - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2014

The directional distance function defined in a DEA type non-parametric framework provides a highly flexible structure …

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Estimating the technical efficiency of health care systems: A cross-country comparison using the directional distance function

Cheng, Gang; Zervopoulos, Panagiotis D. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 238 (2014) 3, pp. 899-910

production process. The directional distance function model has been used for handling asymmetrically both desirable and … undesirable outputs in the assessment process. In the present paper, we apply a generalized directional distance function to …

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Identification and estimation of superposed Neyman–Scott spatial cluster processes

Tanaka, Ushio; Ogata, Yosihiko - In: Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 66 (2014) 4, pp. 687-702

neighbor property. The derivative of the nearest neighbor distance function is regarded as the intensity function of the …

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Scale and scope economies of Japanese private universities revisited with an input distance function approach

Nemoto, Jiro; Furumatsu, Noriko - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 41 (2014) 2, pp. 213-226

capital for higher education institutions. This paper proposes a duality approach based on the input distance function. The … production from the input distance function. We apply the testing procedure to data pertaining to 218 Japanese private …

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On estimating shadow prices of undesirable outputs with efficiency models: A literature review

Zhou, P.; Zhou, X.; Fan, L.W. - In: Applied Energy 130 (2014) C, pp. 799-806

the Shephard or directional distance function to derive the shadow price, which can be further calculated by parametric or …

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