In this paper, we develop a performance efficiency value by using data envelopment analysis (DEA) to integrate five perspectives of CAMEL (Capital Adequacy, Asset Quality, Management, Earnings, Liquidity), which is used by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to evaluate banking...

For a sequence of independent integer-valued random variables {Xni}, we give a direct proof of the convergence of the distribution of Sn=Xn1+...+Xnn to a compound Poisson distribution with discrete compounding distribution. In our proof, we trace the change in the asymptotical behavior of Sn...

We present two methods of constructing multivariate compound distributions and investigate the corresponding infinitely divisible and compound Poisson distributions. We then show that the multivariate compound Poisson distributions can be derived as the limiting distributions of the sums of...

By using ad hoc value transfer protocols, this paper offers a methodological contribution and provides accurate per hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified following the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment taxonomy...

This paper uses an extensive dataset compiled by the author to quantitatively study the determinants of academic and industry innovations measured by the numbers of journal publications, patents and Nobel Laureates. I use sensitivity analysis to test the robustness of estimates to specification...

This paper examines the consequences of housing rationing on the consumption behaviour of Chinese urban households in Jiangsu province during the years 1992-1993.