[BOOK][B] An introduction to efficiency and productivity analysis

TJ Coelli, DSP Rao, CJ O'donnell, GE Battese - 2005 - books.google.com
The second edition of this book has been written for the same audience as the first edition. It
is designed to be a" first port of call" for people wishing to study efficiency and productivity …

[BOOK][B] International Series in Operations Research & Management Science

FS Hillier, CC Price - 2001 - Springer
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 …

[BOOK][B] Benchmarking with dea, sfa, and r

P Bogetoft, L Otto - 2010 - books.google.com
This book covers recent advances in efficiency evaluations, most notably Data Envelopment
Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) methods. It introduces the underlying …

Performance indicators for small-and medium-sized water supply systems: a review

H Haider, R Sadiq, S Tesfamariam - Environmental reviews, 2014 - cdnsciencepub.com
Water supply systems (WSSs) are one of the most important and expensive core public
infrastructures. The primary objective of a water supply utility is to have this valuable asset …

[BOOK][B] Granting and renegotiating infrastructure concessions: Doing it right

JL Guasch - 2004 - books.google.com
Little over a decade ago, infrastructure concessions promised to solve Latin America's
endemic infrastructure deficit. Awarded in competitive auctions, these concessions were …

Quo vadis efficiency analysis of water distribution? A comparative literature review

M Walter, A Cullmann, C von Hirschhausen, R Wand… - Utilities Policy, 2009 - Elsevier
Recognizing the growing importance of scientific benchmarking in water distribution, we
provide a comprehensive survey of the available literature. We begin with a discussion …

Does agricultural cooperative membership impact technical efficiency of maize production in Nigeria: An analysis correcting for biases from observed and unobserved …

KO Olagunju, AI Ogunniyi, Z Oyetunde-Usman… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The formation of agricultural cooperatives has been widely promoted as an agricultural
development policy initiative to help smallholder farmers cope with multiple production and …

Environmental efficiency in greenhouse tomato production using soilless farming technology

H Türkten, V Ceyhan - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
The environmental efficiency of agricultural production and the relationship between
management type and monetary value of achieving environmental efficiency are important …

Determining the contribution of technical change, efficiency change and scale change to productivity growth in the privatized English and Welsh water and sewerage …

DS Saal, D Parker, T Weyman-Jones - Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2007 - Springer
The water and sewerage industry of England and Wales was privatized in 1989 and
subjected to a new regime of environmental, water quality and RPI+ K price cap regulation …

Energy efficiency of selected OECD countries: A slacks based model with undesirable outputs

N Apergis, GC Aye, CP Barros, R Gupta, P Wanke - Energy Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents an efficiency assessment of selected OECD countries using a Slacks
Based Model with undesirable or bad outputs (SBM-Undesirable). In this research, SBM …