Chapter 1: Data Envelopment Analysis -- Chapter 2: Envelopment DEA Models -- Chapter 3: Multiplier DEA Model -- Chapter 4: DEA Cross Efficiency -- Chapter 5: Slack-Based DEA Models -- Chapter 6: Measure-Specific DEA Models.- Chapter 7: Non-radical DEA Models and DEA with Preference -- Chapter 8:...

Here is an in-depth guide to the most powerful available benchmarking technique for improving service organization performance - Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book outlines DEA as a benchmarking technique, identifies high cost service units, isolates specific changes for elevating...

Financial globalization is an inherent feature of today’s economies. But the positive impact of financial globalization has been limited and some puzzling evidence has been found recently. To explain these puzzles, Stulz argued that finance is critically affected by Twin Agency Problems:...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a stable model which covers market information of return to examine the empirical differences between the returns during night and day in Chinese commodity futures market. Design/methodology/approach: Commodity indices are constructed using...

Abstract Informal care provided to the elderly by their children is proposed as a less expensive alternative to institutional long-term care. This paper explores how the elderly's consumption of medical care changes in response to changes in the informal care they receive from their children....

In recent decades, losses resulted from natural disasters have dramatically increased and combined with a significant rise in the intensity and frequency of natural hazards, and in exposure. China is prone to multiple hazards and has experienced huge changes in its social fabric during the past...

This paper proposes a new methodology to include financial risk management in the framework of two-stage stochastic programming for energy planning under uncertainties in demand and fuel price. A deterministic mixed integer linear programming formulation is extended to a two-stage stochastic...