While productivity growth in electricity generation is associated with multiple positive effects from an economic and … environmental perspective, measuring it is challenging. This paper proposes a framework to estimate and decompose productivity … estimation based on stochastic non-smooth envelopment of data (StoNED) allows for productivity estimation with few microeconomic …

international division of labour. We concentrate on the question, to what extent they have caught up with the productivity level of … their Western counterparts of similar size and sector and how this productivity difference is related to changes in their … policy and productivity information for individual manufacturers from both parts of the country. Using a decomposition …

Scenarios of future energy systems attribute an important role to Carbon Capture, Transport, and Storage (CCTS) in …

This paper assesses the relative efficiency of knowledge production in the OECD using a nonparametric DEA approach …

important since that would be a signal for a structural problem within the industry. The analysis - using recently developed DEA … size classes. -- DEA ; German engineering firms …

of limited data availability in some regulated industries. Here, traditional DEA may result in a lack of discriminatory … power when high numbers of variables but only limited observations are available. We apply PCA-DEA for radial efficiency … while maintaining most of the variation in the original data. Our results suggest that the PCA-DEA methodology reduces the …

Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Results indicate significant room for improvements and detect spending inefficiencies averaging …