Bigerna, Simona; Polinori, Paolo - In: ECONOMICS AND POLICY OF ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 2013/3 (2013) 3, pp. 121-144
In this paper we set forth a novel analysis of urban quality of life (QoL) using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach. We use a newly constructed municipality database, which includes all 103 provincial capitals. In our approach we follow a two-stage method. In the first stage, we estimate...