Stochastic Non-smooth Envelopment of Data (StoNED) is a semi-parametric and stochastic method of efficiency measurement that combines some of the virtues of the classical counterparts, namely Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) versus Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Recently, it has been...

After 40 years of research with thousands of application-oriented scientific papers, empirical evidence that data envelopment analysis (DEA) has really improved the practice of performance measurement and benchmarking in real-life non-production contexts is rare. The main reason for this deficit...

A recent article of Dakpo, Jeanneaux and Latruffe critically reviews the developments, limits and future prospects of integrating environmental aspects into productive efficiency evaluation with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In particular, it is concluded that multiple frontier technologies...

Free or strong disposability is a common assumption in orthodox economics and is often postulated in axiomatic approaches to efficiency measurement that uses methods of data envelopment analysis (DEA). It states that it should always be possible to increase the input quantities or decrease the...

Joint production is a term with a long history in economics, encompassing a variety of ubiquitous production types that usually generate both main products as well as desirable and undesirable byproducts. However, studies in economic history show that important phenomena subsumed under this term...