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An environment-adjusted evaluation of local police eectiveness: evidence from a conditional Data Envelopment Analysis approach

Verschelde, Marijn; Rogge, Nicky - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, … - 2012

Hard data alone are not sufficient to evaluate local police effectiveness in the new age of community policing. Citizens can provide useful feedback regarding strengths and weaknesses of police operations. However, citizen satisfaction indicators typically fail to accurately convey the...

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Non-Parametric Frontier Estimates of Mutual Fund Performance Using C- and L-Moments: Some Specification Tests

Kerstens, Kristiaan; Mounir, Amine; Van de Woestyne, Ignace - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, … - 2010

There is a burgeoning literature using non-parametric frontier methods to measure mutual fund performance. These articles measure the relationship between the various characteristics (mainly return information and some costs of ownership) of these specialized financial products to establish a...

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Granting teachers the 'benefit of the doubt' in performance evaluations

Rogge, Nicky - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, … - 2009

aforementioned criticisms. In particular, DEA accounts for different values and interpretations that teachers attach to 'good …

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Robust benevolent evaluations of teaching performance

Rogge, Nicky - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, … - 2009

Although benevolent (BoD) weighting has some appealing features for the construction of evaluation scores of teacher performance (i.e., SET-scores), it still suffers from an important drawback in its basic form: the sensitivity of its outcomes to the influence of potential outliers, extreme...

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To publish or not to publish? On the aggregation and drivers of research performance

Rogge, Nicky; De Witte, Kristof - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, … - 2009

This paper presents a methodology to aggregate multidimensional research output. Using a tailored version of the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis model, we account for the large heterogeneity in research output and the individual researcher preferences by endogenously weighting the...

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Economies of scope in research and teaching: a non-parametric investigation

De Witte, Kristof; Rogge, Nicky; Cherchye, Laurens; Van … - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, … - 2012

We propose a non-parametric methodology to study the presence of economies of scope between teaching and research (i.e., the teaching-research nexus). In particular, the paper advocated a conditional version of the ‘benefit-of-the-doubt’ approach to estimate the relationship between the...

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Undesirable specialization in the construction of composite policy indicators: The Environmental Performance Index

Rogge, Nicky - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, … - 2012

definition of aggregation weights is praised as the method's most important advantage: DEA allows each evaluated country to look … illustrate this issue of undesirable specialization in DEA-based evaluations, this paper compares the Environmental Performance … Index (EPI) as computed by the optimistic and pessimistic version of the DEA-model as proposed by Zhou et al. (2007). Based …

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Accounting for economies of scope in performance evaluations of university professors

De Witte, Kristof; Rogge, Nicky; Cherchye, Laurens; Van … - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, … - 2012

Teaching and research are widely regarded as the two key activities of academics. We propose a tailored version of the popular Data Envelopment Analysis methodology to evaluate the overall performance of university faculty. The methodology enables accounting for the potential presence of...

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Measuring and explaining the cost efficiency of municipal household waste collection and processing: A case study of Flemish municipalities

Rogge, Nicky; de Jaeger, Simon - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, … - 2012

This paper proposes an adjusted version of the popular efficiency measurement technique Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA …

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Evaluating the efficiency of municipalities in collecting and processing municipal solid waste: A shared input DEA-model

Rogge, Nicky; de Jaeger, Simon - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, … - 2012

Analysis (DEA) that enables evaluating municipality waste collection and processing performances in settings in which one input … version of DEA is that it not only provides an estimate of the municipalities overall efficiency but also estimates of the … usefulness of the shared input DEA-model, we apply the model to data on 293 municipalities in Flanders, Belgium, for the year …

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