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Accounting for exogenous influences in a benevolent performance evaluation of teachers

WITTE, Kristof DE; ROGGE, Nicky - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2009

tailored version of the popular non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach. In particular, in a so-called ‘Benefit …

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Constructing a knowledge economy composite indicator with imprecise data

CHERCHYE, Laurens; MOESEN, Willem; ROGGE, Nicky; … - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2009

This paper focuses on the construction of a composite indicator for the knowledge based economy using imprecise data. Specifically, for some indicators we only have information on the bounds of the interval within which the true value is believed to lie. The proposed approach is based on a...

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Product Mixes as Objects of Choice in Nonparametric Efficiency Measurement

CHERCHYE, Laurens; PUYENBROECK, Tom VAN - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 1999

Non-radial measures of technical efficiency essentially differ from their radial counterparts in that the product mix of the efficient reference is allowed to be different from the product mix of the evaluated observation. Whereas existing non-radial measures are still based on the product mix...

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Product mixes as objects of choice in nonparametric efficiency measurement

Cherchye, Laurens; Vanpuyenbroeck, Tom - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 1999

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Profit Efficiency Analysis Under Limited Information. With an Application to German Farm Types

Cherchye, Laurens; Puyenbroeck, Tom Van - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2002

maximization hypothesis. We show that the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology comprises natural tools for … dealing with such incomplete information. In particular, we focus on the economic meaning of the DEA model that builds on … interpretation. This perspective on DEA is all the more attractive since its original use for technical efficiency analysis is …

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Is a little sunshine all we need? On the impact of sunshine regulation on profits, productivity and prices in the Dutch drinking water sector

Witte, Kristof De; Saal, David S. - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2008

This paper analyzes the conduct of publicly owned monopolistic utilities regulated by a voluntary sunshine regulatory model (i.e. publication of the performances of utilities). In particular, we examine the behaviour of Dutch drinking water utilities before and after the introduction of the...

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