To promote the benign development of China's power industry in terms of efficiency improvement and environmental protection, China's power industry needs to ameliorate the market and environmental technical efficiency urgently. Based on the internal mechanism of production-supply in power...

This study used descriptive statistics, budgetary analysis, and stochastic profit function to analyze data collected from 120 catfish fingerlings producers in Edo State, Nigeria to examine the profitability and profit efficiency of their production. Results from the study show that catfish...

This study estimates technical efficiency and total factor productivity change in the Nigerian banking sector for the period 2005 – 2014, which encapsulates the post consolidation era and subsequent regime of banking reforms aimed at stabilizing the sector from the effects of financial crisis....

How successful did the Brazilian Hereditary Captaincies done at the 16th century? Until recently, no data-oriented study has explored this question. In this article I use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to address this question, estimating several production possibility frontiers. The main...

Ranking suppliers performance is one of the central issues of supplier management. In supplier selection, most quantitative analysis assumes that any two suppliers are comparable on any criteria. This assumption is then used to rank the suppliers. In practice, however, suppliers are not always...