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Generalized tolerance sensitivity and DEA metric sensitivity

Croatian Operational Research Review, 2015
This paper considers the relationship between Tolerance sensitivity analysis in optimization and metric sensitivity analysis in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).
Luka Neralić, Richard E. Wendell
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Assessing Eco‐Efficiency in Municipal Solid Waste Management Integrating Heterogeneity: A Latent Class Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The measurement of eco‐efficiency in the municipal solid waste (MSW) sector has garnered significant attention due to the substantial environmental impacts of unsustainable MSW management and the high operational costs associated with public service provision.
Ramon Sala‐Garrido, Alexandros Maziotis, Maria Molinos‐Senante   +2 more
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A slack-based super efficiency in a two-stage network structure with intermediate measures

Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2019
One of the main challenging issues in the conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) is ranking efficient decision-making units (DMUs) when more than one DMU have the efficiency score equal to one.
Hoda Golshani, Mohammad Khoveyni, Hadi Bagherzadeh Valami, Robabeh Eslami   +3 more
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Water‐Energy Nexus: Benchmarking the Energy Efficiency of Drinking Water Treatment Plants Accounting for Heterogeneity

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The assessment of energy efficiency in water facilities is receiving increasing attention as a key strategy in the transition toward an energy‐neutral urban water cycle. This study evaluates the energy efficiency of 146 drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs) in Chile by applying a latent class stochastic frontier analysis (LCSFA) to account ...
Alexandros Maziotis, Maria Molinos‐Senante   +1 more
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Environmental Total Factor Productivity and the Cost‐Effectiveness of GHG Emission Reduction: The Case of Crop Production in China

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China's diversified agricultural policies have effectively improved both the yield and environmental performance of the crop sector. Quantifying productivity trends and their drivers is key to formulating strategies for high‐quality and low‐carbon crop development.
Yang Liu, Maria Vrachioli, Johannes Sauer   +2 more
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Is Technological Heterogeneity the Key to Sustainable Coffee Production Efficiency?: A Latent Class Frontier Analysis in the Traditional Coffee Region of Colombia

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
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, Maria Vrachioli, Johannes Sauer   +2 more
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Environmental Performance Evaluation Under the Frontier Analysis Framework: A Farm‐Level Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
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, Bethan Thompson, Tarek Soliman, Thomas Donovan, Klaus Glenk, Andrew Barnes   +5 more
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What are the carbon services from cover‐crop adoption worth from farmers' perspective?

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We derive shadow prices of carbon services provided by cover crops relative to non‐cover‐crop agricultural practices, accounting for carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We model the agricultural technology by integrating crop production, carbon sequestration, and GHG emissions.
Saurav Raj Kunwar, Robert G. Chambers, Laura F. Gentry, Teresa Serra   +3 more
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Assessing the logistics efficiency of European countries by using the DEA-PC methodology

Transport, 2014
Data envelopment analysis is a non-parametric linear programming method widely used for the efficiency evaluation of decision making units active in the transport sector. However, it is seldom applied for the efficiency assessment of logistics efficiency
Rita Markovits-Somogyi, Zoltán Bokor
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Optimal timing and rate of nitrogen fertilizer use: An integrated network technology approach

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Both the rate and timing of crop fertilizer application play an important role in agricultural productivity. However, inefficient fertilizer use can significantly increase production costs, water pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. To capture both the spatial heterogeneity and dynamic nature of this problem, we develop a multi‐stage ...
Tihomir Ancev, Moriah Bostian
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