This paper proposed an adjusted “shared-input” version of the popular efficiency
measurement technique Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) that enables evaluating …

Provision of most public goods (eg, health care, libraries, education, police, fire protection,
utilities) can be characterized by a two-stage production process. In the first-stage, basic …

Practitioners assess performance of entities in increasingly large and complicated datasets.
If non-parametric models, such as Data Envelopment Analysis, were ever considered as …

This paper proposes an adjusted version of the popular efficiency measurement technique
data envelopment analysis (DEA) that makes it possible (1) to evaluate the cost efficiency of …

This paper suggests an outlier detection procedure which applies a nonparametric model
accounting for undesired outputs and exogenous influences in the sample. Although …

A good understanding of energy efficiency trend and its potential underlying drivers is
required when considering policies for energy conservation and environmental …

Over the last few years, many studies have analyzed the efficiency of local governments in
different countries. An accurate definition of their output bundles—ie, the services and …

This paper studies the influence of educational innovations on school performance. We
apply a tailored, fully nonparametric conditional efficiency model to study secondary school …

We study the impact of some local policies aimed at municipal solid waste (MSW) reduction
on the cost efficiency of MSW collection and disposal. We explicitly account for differences …

In this paper the relative efficiency of the forest sector of 28 EU/EFTA countries during the
period 2010–2015 is assessed using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Three non …