Power in human societies is a central phenomenon. Even though, it took ages to understand it and – even more – to measure it. Only in the last decades attempts were made to model power relations and to assign respective power indices to actors in a network. The present work goes a step...

Cross-efficiency analysis in DEA generally uses a two-stage procedure: first, optimize a DMU’s individual efficiency score; next, push the efficiencies of all DMUs in a desired direction. In order to reduce subjective judgement in the second step, we provide a cross-efficiency method using only...

Power in human societies is a central phenomenon. Even though, it took ages to understand it and – even more – to measure it. Only in the last decades attempts were made to model power relations and to assign respective power indices to actors in a network. The present work goes a step...