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Revisiting Worst-Case DEA for Composite Indicators
Athanassoglou, Stergios - 2015
, aggregation, and weighting. Nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods, originating in the production economics … weighting techniques by focusing on a measure of best-case relative performance. Recently, the standard DEA model for composite … standard DEA for composite indicators and show how it leads to tractable optimization problems. Finally, we compare the two …
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Investing in Biogas : Timing, Technological Choice and the Value of Flexibility from Inputs Mix
Di Corato, Luca; Moretto, Michele - 2013
In a continuous-time framework we study the technology and investment choice problem of a continuous co-digestion biogas plant dealing with randomly fluctuating relative convenience of input factor costs. Input factors enter into the productive process together mixed according to a given initial...
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Valuing Environmental Factors in Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Kuosmanen, Timo - 2007
analysis (DEA) and does not demand any price estimation for environmental impacts using traditional revealed or stated … preference methods. We show that DEA can be modified to the context of CBA by using absolute shadow prices instead of … of ECBA. We illustrate the application of the DEA approach to ECBA by means of a hypothetical numerical example where a …
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Measuring Service Quality : The Opinion of Europeans About Utilities
Ferrari, Pier Alda; Salini, Silvia - 2008
This paper provides a comparative analysis of statistical methods to evaluate the consumer perception about the quality of Services of General Interest. The evaluation of the service quality perceived by users is usually based on Customer Satisfaction Survey data and an ex-post evaluation is...
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Energy Intensity Developments in 40 Major Economies : Structural Change or Technology Improvement?
De Cian, Enrica; Schymura, Michael; Verdolini, Elena; … - 2013
This study analyzes energy intensity trends and drivers in 40 major economies using the WIOD database, a novel harmonized and consistent dataset of input-output table time series accompanied by environmental satellite data. We use logarithmic mean Divisia index decomposition to (1) study trends...
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Sustainability assessment of the public interventions supported by the ReSTART project in the CITI4GREEN framework
Cavalli, Laura; Alibegovic, Mia; Vaccari, Davide; … - 2022
As part of the CITI4GREEN project, this contribution analyzes the public interventions contained in Re-START “Territorial Resilience of the Central Apennines Earthquake Reconstruction” assessing their impacts on the sustainability guidelines posed by the United Nations through the...
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Interval Based Composite Indicators
Drago, Carlo - 2017
Composite indicators are increasingly important in country comparisons and in policy making. At the same time, the robustness of the results obtained and in particular of the rankings and the conclusions obtained from the analysis it is usually accepted with doubts. In this sense our proposal is...
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Partial Order Algorithms for the Assessment of Italian Cities Sustainability
Arcagni, Alberto; Cavalli, Laura; Fattore, Marco - 2021
In this paper, we introduce some recent non-aggregative algorithms, for the construction of synthetic indicators on multi-indicators systems, and exemplify them on data pertaining to the sustainability of main Italian cities. The procedure employs tools from Partial Order Theory and computes the...
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E Pluribus, Quaedam : Gross Domestic Product out of a Dashboard of Indicators
Guerini, Mattia; Vanni, Fabio; Napoletano, Mauro - 2022
Is aggregate income enough to summarize the well-being of a society? We address this longstanding question by exploiting a novel approach to study the relationship between gross domestic product (GDP) and a set of economic, social and environmental indicators for nine developed economies. By...
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Constructing the FEEM Sustainability Index : A Choquet-Integral Application
Cruciani, Caterina - 2013
This paper presents an application of a multi-attribute aggregation methodology to the construction of a sustainability index. Sustainability is a multi-faceted issue, in which synergies or conflicts may arise among the different components, thus making it a complex concept to which multi...
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