, aggregation, and weighting. Nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods, originating in the production economics … weighting techniques by focusing on a measure of best-case relative performance. Recently, the standard DEA model for composite … analogue of standard DEA for composite indicators and show how it leads to tractable optimization problems. Finally, we compare …

various factors such as quantity and price effect, technical change, efficiency change, resource mix, product mix and scale … improvements in efficiency gains. The input price and scale effect had a significant negative impact on profit changes. This …

management units, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a methodology for evaluating the relative efficiency of decision making units …, is applied. The efficiency index measure used in DEA analysis accounts for both environmental and economic features … and environmental aspects are considered as equally relevant. In particular, the focus is on the comparison and efficiency …

analysis (DEA) and does not demand any price estimation for environmental impacts using traditional revealed or stated … preference methods. We show that DEA can be modified to the context of CBA by using absolute shadow prices instead of … of ECBA. We illustrate the application of the DEA approach to ECBA by means of a hypothetical numerical example where a …

plausible for the near future. The proposed procedure is based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a technique commonly employed … in evaluating the relative efficiency of a set of decision making units. We consider here two possible applications of … DEA. In the first, DEA is applied coupled with Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) in order to evaluate the comparative advantages …

This study uses the EU public power generating sector as a case study to investigate the environmental efficiency and … Envelopment Analysis methods, we measure the environmental efficiency and the productivity growth registered in public power … productivity and efficiency over time using state-of-the-art econometric techniques. Our analysis suggests two conclusions: on the …

environmental management. The proposed efficiency assessment procedure is based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA is a … management efficiency per se may not provide enough information concerning long-term performances, which is what sustainability … of long-run sustainable efficiency and tourism performances. Indeed, while the environmental endowment of a site is a key …

management. In the present paper we propose a methodology based on Data Envelopment Analysis, DEA, a non parametric benchmarking … technique specifically developed to assess the relative efficiency of decision-making units. In particular, the objective of the … discussed methodology is to assess the relative efficiency of the management units of the protected area and to indicate how it …

this fishery precludes an analysis of how the buyback has affected profitability, but changes in technical efficiency can … on technical efficiency in the trawl fleet, applies stochastic frontier analysis to assess whether technical efficiency … little impact on trip-level technical efficiency in the study fishery. However, departures from the frontier are markedly bi …