Accounting, life cycle assessment (LCA) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) are
examples of various research areas that independently develop and apply diverse …

This book covers recent advances in efficiency evaluations, most notably Data Envelopment
Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) methods. It introduces the underlying …

Conic optimization is a significant and thriving research area within the optimization
community. Conic optimization is the general class of problems concerned with optimizing a …

This chapter deals with the measurement of efficiency through the nonparametric,
mathematical programming-based technique that is best known as data envelopment …

" In this book, Peter Bogetoft-THE expert on the theory and practice of benchmarking-
provides an in–depth yet very accessible and readable explanation of the best way to do …

This article studies trade-offs of farms in terms of economic sustainability (proxied here by
technical efficiency), environmental sustainability (proxied here by farmers' commitment …

DEA-type efficiency studies are often used to investigate levels of efficiencies, differences in
those levels between subgroups within a data set and possible determinants of such …

Inefficiency in agricultural production is generally interpreted as waste in the use of
production factors. We challenge this by (i) providing an explanation for why apparent …

Benchmarking methods, and in particular Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), have become
well-established and informative tools for economic regulation. DEA is now routinely used …

A split-panel latent class stochastic frontier model is applied to account for technological
heterogeneity among Swiss dairy farms and to assess the potential performance …