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Sustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 3304-3321, June 2026.ABSTRACT Certain attributes of large‐scale complex systems are often expressed through sets of indicators. For example, the sustainability of an entity, be it a nation, a city, an energy system, a corporation etc., can be effectively represented by indicators and corresponding data series.
Vassilis S. Kouikoglou +1 more
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Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 77, Issue 2, Page 429-440, June 2026.ABSTRACT Coffee producers deal with uncertainty due to high volatility in coffee prices. To navigate these challenges, producers must balance the tradeoff between higher yield and better quality utilising heterogeneous technologies, such as intensive production methods and environmental management practices.
Orlando Rodríguez +2 more
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Performance evaluation using bootstrapping DEA techniques: Evidence from industry ratio analysis
In Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) context financial data/ ratios have been used in order to produce a unified measure of performance metric. However, several scholars have indicated that the inclusion of financial ratios create biased efficiency ...
Halkos, George, Tzeremes, Nickolaos
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Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 77, Issue 2, Page 493-512, June 2026.ABSTRACT Quantifying and improving the environmental performance (EP) of agriculture has become an urgent research and policy priority. Over the past three decades, frontier‐based analytical frameworks have been widely applied to evaluate farm‐level EP.
Fissha Asmare +5 more
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Measuring Hospital Efficiency through Data Envelopment Analysis when Policy-makers’ Preferences Matter. An Application to a sample of Italian NHS hospitals [PDF]
In this paper we show how both the choice of specific constraints on input and output weights (in accordance with health care policy-makers’ preferences) and the consideration of exogenous variables outside the control of hospital management (and linked ...
Dino Rizzi, Vincenzo Rebba
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Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Volume 97, Issue 2, Page 401-424, June 2026.Abstract Social services for the elderly are becoming increasingly important in societies where the elderly population is growing and requires specific attention to ensure their well‐being. Within these services, nursing homes play a key role, and it is therefore vital to ensure efficient management with an assessment according to their characteristics,
Georgina Solaz‐Moreno +2 more
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The Manchester School, Volume 94, Issue 3, Page 296-308, June 2026.ABSTRACT The eradication of poverty remains one of the greatest economic challenges of the 21st century, particularly in light of transformations in labour markets, demographic shifts, and recent crises such as the COVID‐19 pandemic. Sustainable Development Goal 1 (SDG 1) acknowledges the need for broader approaches to measuring and addressing poverty,
Fernando Henrique Taques +2 more
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The Law of One Price in Data Envelopment Analysis: Restricting Weight Flexibility Across Firms [PDF]
The Law of One Price (LoOP) states that all firms face the same prices for their inputs and outputs in the competitive market equilibrium. This law has powerful implications for productive efficiency analysis, which have remained unexploited thus far ...
Timo Sipiläinen +2 more
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Measuring Efficiency of Knowledge Production in Health Research Centers Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA): A Case Study in Iran. [PDF]
Electron Physician, 2016 Amiri MM +4 more
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Life Cycle Assessments of Bivalve Aquaculture: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis
Reviews in Aquaculture, Volume 18, Issue 3, June 2026.Life cycle assessment (LCA) of bivalve aquaculture systems indicates generally low environmental impacts across mussel, oyster, and clam production. For a functional unit of 1 t live weight bivalves at farm gate, median impacts were 385 kg CO2‐eq for climate change, 0.25 kg PO43−‐eq for eutrophication, 0.014 kg N‐eq for marine eutrophication, 1.86 kg ...
Mausam Budhathoki +7 more
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