[HTML][HTML] A survey and analysis of the first 40 years of scholarly literature in DEA: 1978–2016

A Emrouznejad, G Yang - Socio-economic planning sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

[HTML][HTML] Random Forests and the measurement of super-efficiency in the context of Free Disposal Hull

M Esteve, J Aparicio, JJ Rodriguez-Sala… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the technical efficiency evaluation area, it may happen that many observations obtain a
similar relative technical efficiency status, making it difficult to discriminate between them …

[HTML][HTML] The measurement of profit, profitability, cost and revenue efficiency through data envelopment analysis: A comparison of models using …

J Barbero, JL Zofío - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
We undertake a systematic comparison of existing models measuring and decomposing the
economic efficiency of organizations. For this purpose we introduce the package …

Decomposing economic efficiency into technical and allocative components: an essential property

J Aparicio, JL Zofío, JT Pastor - Journal of Optimization Theory and …, 2023 - Springer
We introduce two desirable properties concerning the allocative efficiency term in the
decomposition of economic efficiency. Since Farrell, economic efficiency, defined in terms of …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-output support vector frontiers

D Valero-Carreras, J Aparicio, NM Guerrero - Computers & Operations …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we show that both Free Disposal Hull (FDH) and Data Envelopment Analysis
(DEA), which are well-known modern techniques for efficiency measurement, can be seen …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating Malmquist-type indices with StoNED

Y Zhao, H Morita - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
The Malmquist index constructed from distance functions is a useful tool for measuring
productivity growth. In this paper, we assume the presence of random noise in empirical …

[HTML][HTML] A general direct approach for decomposing profit inefficiency

JT Pastor, JL Zofío, J Aparicio, D Pastor - Omega, 2023 - Elsevier
Considering any graph technical inefficiency measure, we show that the so-called standard
or traditional approach for decomposing profit inefficiency relying on Fenchel-Mahler …

Environmental tightening, labor slackening: Unveiling the inefficiencies in labor investment

CC Lee, CW Wang, W Lin, FY Lee - International Review of Financial …, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the impact of environmental policy stringency (EPS) on labor
investment inefficiency using a dataset of firms from 37 countries. Our study contributes to …

A comparative analysis of profit inefficiency and productivity convergence between Taiwanese and Chinese banks

X Chen, TT Fu, JC Juo, MM Yu - BRQ Business Research …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
To insure a proper and meaningful productivity assessment of DMUs with different
production technologies, this article develops a difference-based profit metafrontier …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing group performance over time through the Luenberger productivity indicator: An application to school ownership in European countries

J Aparicio, L Ortiz, D Santín - European Journal of Operational Research, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper extends the Camanho and Dyson (2006) one-period Malmquist-type index
(CDMI) and the recent pseudo-panel Malmquist index (PPMI) by Aparicio et al.(2017) and …