The family of optimization models of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been shown to
be very useful performance analytics tools that support benchmarking systems in measuring …

In this study, the industrial eco-efficiency measures of 30 Chinese provinces (municipalities
and autonomous regions) from 2001 to 2015 were estimated based on a proposed data …

This article reconsiders the way metafrontiers and associated measures of efficiency are
obtained from nonparametric estimates of underlying group-specific frontiers. Both convex …

This paper extends the theory of inverse frontier-based benchmarking to address the issue
of effectiveness when investigating the efficiency of household expenditure in the case of the …

Abstract A Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method has been applied by the Brazilian
regulator to set regulatory operational costs for 61 electricity distribution utilities. Recent …

This study examines the impacts of political competition on eco-efficiency. We first develop a
theoretical model in which local government officials compete against each other to …

An analysis of urbanization's effects on energy efficiency (EE) is presented in this paper. We
develop an input-oriented data envelopment analysis method to estimate EE in the …

In Spain, the average remuneration of large electric distribution companies is much lower
than that of smaller ones, which leads us to wonder if the smaller ones are managed …

The trend of market-oriented land transaction scheme and the optimal allocation of land
resources have become two important components of ecological sustainable development …

In many real world data envelopment analysis (DEA) applications, there are situations
where a central body manages a large number of similar units through a few distinct …