In this paper we use data on five social inclusion indicators (poverty, inequality, unemployment, education and health) to assess and compare the performance of 27 European welfare states (EU27) in 2008. Aggregate measures of performance are obtained using index number methods similar to those...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a technique for evaluating relative efficiencies of peer decision making units (DMUs) which have multiple performance measures. These performance measures have to be classified as either inputs or outputs in DEA. DEA assumes that higher output levels and/or...

Th is paper aims to analyze the residual income of the Slovenian and Croatian hotel industry for the period covering 2005–2008. Th e residual income not only looks at return on invested funds, but also implicitly compares it with the risk adjusted opportunity cost of such an investment. Th is...

Sharpe-like ratios have been traditionally used to measure the performances of portfolio managers. However, they suffer two intricate drawbacks (1) they are relative to a perr's performance and (2) the best score is generally assumed to correspond to a "good" portfolio allocation, with no...

Sharpe-like ratios have been traditionally used to measure the performances of portfolio managers. However, they are known to suffer major drawbacks. Among them, two are intricate : (1) they are relative to a peer's performance and (2) the best score is generally assumed to correspond to a...

Sharpe-like ratios have been traditionally used to measure the performances of portfolio managers. However, they suffer two intricate drawbacks (1) they are relative to a perr's performance and (2) the best score is generally assumed to correspond to a "good" portfolio allocation, with no...

In this paper, we conducted a comparative study of ten measures documented as the most used by researchers and practionners: Sharpe, Sortino, Calmar, Sterling, Burke, modified Stutzer, modified Sharpe, upside potential ratio, Omega and AIRAP. This study was carried out in two stages on a sample...

The development of alternative investment has highlighted the limitations of standard performance measures like the Sharpe ratio, primarily because alternative strategies yield returns distributions which can be far from gaussian. In this paper, we propose a new framework in which trades,...