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Valuing Environmental Factors in Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Kuosmanen, Timo - 2006
Environmental cost-benefit analysis (ECBA) refers to social evaluation of investment projects and policies that involve significant environmental impacts. Valuation of the environmental impacts in monetary terms forms one of the critical steps in ECBA. We propose a new approach for environmental...
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Measuring local government technical (in)efficiency: An application and comparison of FDH, DEA and econometric approaches
Geys, Benny; Moesen, Wim - 2008
performance measurement. Hence, assessing the robustness of the results across various approaches to efficiency measurement is …
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Evaluating Greek equity funds using Data Envelopment Analysis
Babalos, Vassilios; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2009
This study assesses the relative performance of Greek equity funds employing a non-parametric method, specifically Data … funds. The most striking result is that the percentage of assets under management affects performance negatively, a …
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Effects of Ownership on Hospital Efficiency in Germany
Tiemann, Oliver; Schreyögg, Jonas - In: BuR - Business Research 2 (2009) 2, pp. 115-145
The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1,046) of public, private for-profit, and private...
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Changes in hospital efficiency after privatization
Tiemann, Oliver; Schreyögg, Jonas - 2011
We investigated the effects of privatization on hospital efficiency in Germany. To do so, we obtained bootstrapped DEA efficiency scores in the first stage of our analysis and subsequently employed a difference-in-difference matching approach within a panel regression framework. Our findings...
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Environmental effects of consumption: An approach using DEA and cost sharing
Keiding, Hans - 2002
Envelopment Analysis (DEA), in which relative indices of pollution for the actitivies can be computed.An application is given …
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Environmental pollution policy of small businesses in Nigeria and Ghana: Extent and impact
Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Belmondo, Tanankem; Orkoh, … - 2018
, Nigeria; and 14 percent, Ghana) pollution. Training appears to be an important intervention that can help improve firms' adopt … significantly improve their performance. …
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Performance analysis of the closed loop supply chain
Asif, Farazee MA; Bianchi, Carmine; Rashid, Amir; … - In: Journal of Remanufacturing 2 (2012), pp. 1-21
commodities; on the other hand, these demands have to be met by minimum resources and pollution. Resource conservative …, and in addition, to show how the proposed concept deals with those challenges through analysis of key performance … indicators (KPI). Methods: The work presented in this paper is mainly based on the literature review. The analysis of performance …
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Trade reforms, deforestation and industrial pollution in developing countries: One size does not fit all
Coxhead, Ian; Jayasuriya, Sisira - 2005
, and experience both industrial pollution and natural resource degradation. We present a model that incorporates these …
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Income inequality and the environmental Kuznets curve
Borghesi, Simone - 2000
This study explores the link between environmental degradation, economic growth and income inequality within the framework of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. To investigate this issue, we examine how inequality affects carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their relationship with...
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