Recently in the insurance sector, efficiency measurement of insurance firms has attracted
great interest from investors, financial market analysts, insurance regulators, and …

This paper presents a literature review on Data Envelopment Analysis assessments of
economic efficiency, covering methodological developments and empirical applications. We …

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 …

Improving technological innovation efficiency and eco-efficiency is the key to achieving a
high-quality, sustainable mining industry in China. In order to explore the internal process of …

This paper examines the wide-spread practice where data envelopment analysis (DEA)
efficiency estimates are regressed on some environmental variables in a second-stage …

This chapter reviews the modern frontier efficiency and productivity methodologies that have
been developed to analyze firm performance, emphasizing applications to the insurance …

This study applies the dynamic slack-based measure (DSBM) model to evaluate the
performance of 34 Chinese life insurance companies for the period 2006–2010. This study …

To quantify trade frictions, we examine multiproduct exporters. We build a flexible general-
equilibrium model and estimate market entry costs using Brazilian firm-product-destination …

The current study proposes a new DEA model to evaluate the efficiency of 39 Chinese
commercial banks over the period 2010–2018. The paper also, in the second stage …

The Classroom Companion series in Economics features fundamental textbooks aimed at
introducing students to the core concepts, empirical methods, theories and tools of the …