Greening the industrial parks is one of China's attempts to explore sustainable development for the industrial sector. In this paper, a non-desired output and non-radial DEA model was firstly proposed for measuring a number of industrial parks’ green development performance. We use the panel...

Technical efficiency (TE) is an important measure of farm performance. This study measured the TE of wheat farms across six states in the U.S. Western Great Plains based on production and farm management-specific variables. Significant factors positively influencing efficiency were insecticide...

The problem of zombie enterprises originated in Japan's bubble economy around 1990. Afterward, after China's oversupply problem in 2016, it gained attention and received policy support from the Chinese government in solving related problems. The contribution of this measurement is to integrate...

The inefficiency term in stochastic frontier models is usually assumed to have positive skewness; but when this assumption is not met, efficiency scores are overestimated. Potential endogeneity of model regressors poses an additional empirical challenge and greatly hinders identification of...

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of key financial indicators influencing the operational efficiency of banks in Jordan over the period 2006 to 2021. The study, focusing on fifteen commercial banks, employs seven regression models to assess the impact of selected variables on bank...

The great expansion of economic activity since the end of World War II has caused an unprecedented rise in living standards, but it has also caused rapid changes in earth systems. Nearly all types of natural capital-the world's stock of resources and services provided by nature-are in decline....