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  • Open Access
7 Citations
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Data Envelopment Analysis and Multifactor Asset Pricing Models

  • Pablo Solórzano-Taborga,
  • Ana Belén Alonso-Conde and
  • Javier Rojo-Suárez

Recent literature shows that market anomalies have significantly diminished, while research on market factors has largely improved the performance of asset pricing models. In this paper we study the extent to which data envelopment analysis (DEA) tec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,875 Views
19 Pages

29 June 2019

To find sustainable technology in various areas, we propose an analytical methodology based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) and the state space model (SSM). DEA is an analytical method used to compare the efficiencies and performances of several i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,530 Views
31 Pages

Algorithm for Application of a Basic Model for the Data Envelopment Analysis Method in Technical Systems

  • Mariia Pokushko,
  • Alena Stupina,
  • Inmaculada Medina-Bulo,
  • Svetlana Ezhemanskaya,
  • Roman Kuzmich and
  • Roman Pokushko

27 September 2023

The aim of this study is to solve the problem of increasing the efficiency of fuel and energy complex enterprises. Because such enterprises are complex systems, it is difficult to optimize their work, taking into account all the technical indicators...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,819 Views
20 Pages

17 March 2020

This paper focuses on business financial health evaluation with the use of selected mathematical and statistical methods. The issue of financial health assessment and prediction of business failure is a widely discussed topic across various industrie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,383 Views
21 Pages

5 December 2023

The main purpose of this study is to provide a comparative analysis of several possible approaches to applying data envelopment analysis (DEA) in the case where some decision making units (DMUs) in the original sample have negative system outputs. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,244 Views
21 Pages

18 December 2019

With the reform of the power system, the retail electricity market in China has gradually been liberalized. The mechanism of freely selling electricity have been set up. To grab market share and increase profits, electricity retail companies have int...

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  • Open Access
79 Citations
6,843 Views
16 Pages

23 June 2018

Water resources are important and irreplaceable natural and economic resources. Achieving a balance between economic prosperity and protection of water resource environments is a major issue in China. This article develops a data envelopment analysis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,956 Views
17 Pages

14 May 2023

In order to ensure a smooth construction project, it is necessary to select an appropriate contractor. However, traditional bid evaluation methods are highly subjective in determining weights. Data envelopment analysis (DEA), a comprehensive bid eval...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,847 Views
23 Pages

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted many socio-economic areas of countries around the world. It has made the production and business situations of enterprises face substantial difficulties. In this study, the authors used data envelopment analysis (DEA) m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,776 Views
24 Pages

Which Green Transport Corridors (GTC) Are Efficient? A Dual-Step Approach Using Network Equilibrium Model (NEM) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

  • Paulo Nocera Alves Junior,
  • Isotilia Costa Melo,
  • José Eduardo Holler Branco,
  • Daniela Bacchi Bartholomeu and
  • José Vicente Caixeta-Filho

26 February 2021

The development of Green Transport Corridors (GTCs) is an important strategy to help a region achieve more sustainable solutions. When such GTCs are implemented, multimodal supply chains and environmentally-friendly alternatives for freight transport...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,299 Views
26 Pages

Evaluating Territorial Space Use Efficiency: A Geographic Data Envelopment Model Considering Geospatial Effects

  • Minrui Zheng,
  • Yin Ma,
  • Xinqi Zheng,
  • Xvlu Wang,
  • Li Li,
  • Feng Xu,
  • Xiaoyuan Zhang,
  • Fuping Gan,
  • Jianchao Wang and
  • Zhengkun Zhu

17 March 2025

Accurately evaluating territorial space use efficiency is a prerequisite for promoting the realization of high-quality development. Existing efficiency evaluation models all treat decision making units (DMUs) as independent individuals, ignoring geos...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,118 Views
19 Pages

9 July 2023

Urban flooding disasters endanger people’s lives and property while causing significant economic damage to cities. To further improve the efficiency of urban flooding governance and promote the optimal allocation of resources, this article sele...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,028 Views
18 Pages

23 June 2023

To enhance national competitiveness, countries are committed to building a National Human Resource Development (NHRD) system to develop talents. However, studies have rarely investigated the internal development process of the NHRD system and the per...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,965 Views
16 Pages

Measuring Efficiency of Generating Electric Processes

  • Chia-Nan Wang,
  • Quoc-Chien Luu and
  • Thi-Kim-Lien Nguyen

21 December 2018

Electric energy sources are the foundation for supporting for the industrialization and modernization; however, the processes of electricity generation increase CO2 emissions. This study integrates the Holt–Winters model in number cruncher stat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,517 Views
21 Pages

Dynamic Equilibrium of Sustainable Ecosystem Variables: An Experiment

  • Marcos Gonçalves Perroni,
  • Claudimar Pereira da Veiga,
  • Zhaohui Su,
  • Fernando Maciel Ramos and
  • Wesley Vieira da Silva

17 April 2023

Developing indicators to monitor the dynamic equilibrium of sustainable ecosystem variables has been challenging for policymakers, companies, and researchers. The new method matrix decomposition analysis (MDA) is an adaptation of the Leontief input&n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,432 Views
10 Pages

6 September 2019

The super-efficiency data envelopment analysis model is innovative in evaluating the performance of crude oil prices’ volatility forecasting models. This multidimensional ranking, which takes account of multiple criteria, gives rise to a unifie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,306 Views
13 Pages

Assessing Bank Performance Using Dynamic SBM Model

  • Chia-Nan Wang,
  • Quoc-Chien Luu,
  • Thi-Kim-Lien Nguyen and
  • Jen-Der Day

11 January 2019

Global economic growth has led banks to expand their operations all over the world. The purpose of this research was to understand the efficiency of 18 large bank from all over the world during the period from 2013 to 2017. The performance was estima...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,472 Views
21 Pages

18 April 2019

Supply Chain Management (SCM) represents an example of a complex multi-stage system. The SCM involves and connects different activities, from customer’s orders to received services, all with the aim of satisfying customers. The evaluation of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
14,921 Views
30 Pages

Road Safety Risk Assessment: An Analysis of Transport Policy and Management for Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Asian Countries

  • Syyed Adnan Raheel Shah,
  • Naveed Ahmad,
  • Yongjun Shen,
  • Ali Pirdavani,
  • Muhammad Aamir Basheer and
  • Tom Brijs

2 February 2018

Road safety assessment has played a crucial role in the theory and practice of transport management systems. This paper focuses on risk evaluation in the Asian region by exploring the interaction between road safety risk and influencing factors. In t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,686 Views
18 Pages

Effective Decision Making: Data Envelopment Analysis for Efficiency Evaluation in the Cloud Computing Marketplaces

  • Chia-Nan Wang,
  • Minh-Nhat Nguyen,
  • Thi-Duong Nguyen,
  • Hsien-Pin Hsu and
  • Thi-Hai-Yen Nguyen

18 November 2021

Assessing business performance is a critical issue for practicing managers, and business performance has always been of interest to managers and researchers. In recent years, the world has experienced a rapid growth in the cloud computing service sec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
8,868 Views
24 Pages

Network DEA and Its Applications (2017–2022): A Systematic Literature Review

  • Svetlana V. Ratner,
  • Artem M. Shaposhnikov and
  • Andrey V. Lychev

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is one of the fastest growing approaches to solving management problems for the multi-criteria evaluation of the efficiency of homogeneous production systems. The general trend in recent years has been the development...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,103 Views
35 Pages

Quantifying Electricity Supply Resilience of Countries with Robust Efficiency Analysis

  • Patrick Gasser,
  • Marco Cinelli,
  • Anna Labijak,
  • Matteo Spada,
  • Peter Burgherr,
  • Miłosz Kadziński and
  • Božidar Stojadinović

25 March 2020

The interest in studying energy systems’ resilience is increasing due to a rising awareness of the importance of having a secure energy supply. This growing trend is a result of a series of recent disruptions, among others also affecting electr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,594 Views
30 Pages

7 July 2025

Problem: Agriculture in India faces pressing challenges related to water scarcity, excessive pesticide use, and inefficient energy consumption, impacting both economic sustainability and environmental health. Methodology: This study integrates Life C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
5,336 Views
19 Pages

A Novel Hybrid Parametric and Non-Parametric Optimisation Model for Average Technical Efficiency Assessment in Public Hospitals during and Post-COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Mirpouya Mirmozaffari,
  • Reza Yazdani,
  • Elham Shadkam,
  • Seyed Mohammad Khalili,
  • Leyla Sadat Tavassoli and
  • Azam Boskabadi

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on hospitals and healthcare systems around the world. The cost of business disruption combined with lingering COVID-19 costs has placed many public hospitals on a course to insolvency. To quickly ret...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,559 Views
23 Pages

26 May 2020

Reasonably assessing the efficiency of green regional development is a key to improving environmental management and implementing sustainable development strategies. From the perspectives of environmental pollutant emissions, energy consumption, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,696 Views
27 Pages

29 June 2022

One method that has been proposed for the measurement of sustainability is Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Despite its advantages, the method has limitations: First, the efficiency of Decision-Making Units is calculated with weights that are favorab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,016 Views
15 Pages

24 September 2019

The Information and Communication Industry (ICT) plays a very important role in the growth of any nation. Therefore, the ITC sector attracts the great attention of the researcher. Despite many breakthroughs and favorable conditions to develop, the In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,162 Views
30 Pages

Reconstructing Nonparametric Productivity Networks

  • Moriah B. Bostian,
  • Cinzia Daraio,
  • Rolf Färe,
  • Shawna Grosskopf,
  • Maria Grazia Izzo,
  • Luca Leuzzi,
  • Giancarlo Ruocco and
  • William L. Weber

11 December 2020

Network models provide a general representation of inter-connected system dynamics. This ability to connect systems has led to a proliferation of network models for economic productivity analysis, primarily estimated non-parametrically using Data Env...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,540 Views
16 Pages

27 February 2012

Solar energy has become an important energy source in recent years as it generates less pollution than other energies. A photovoltaic (PV) system, which typically has many components, converts solar energy into electrical energy. With the development...

  • Article
  • Open Access
232 Citations
34,939 Views
31 Pages

23 February 2011

The need for integrated methodological framework for sustainability assessment has been widely discussed and is urgent due to increasingly complex environmental system problems. These problems have impacts on ecosystems and human well-being which rep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,129 Views
17 Pages

20 May 2022

As Vietnam continues to industrialize and modernize, such economic development and high-tech will require a major electrical energy source to operate the electrical equipment; hence, the hydropower plants are established and growing up to demand. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,022 Views
13 Pages

15 April 2020

The efficiency of new soybean producers is of great importance to the agricultural development of China. Based on the survey data of some counties (cities) in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the efficiency of new...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,147 Views
20 Pages

The competition between enterprises in the construction market is fierce. If enterprises are unable to afford financial and technological capabilities, they could go bankrupt. Therefore, the implementation of alliances between businesses can help inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,931 Views
19 Pages

2 May 2020

Since Charnes, Cooper, and Rhodes introduced data envelopment analysis (DEA) in 1978, later called the DEA-CCR model, many studies applied this technique to different fields. Based on the original CCR model, many modified DEA models were developed by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,995 Views
18 Pages

13 October 2018

The purpose of this paper is to measure and forecast the macroeconomic performance in developed countries and Asian developing countries over the periods from 2013 to 2016 and 2017 to 2020. We used four macroeconomic indicators: government gross debt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,225 Views
18 Pages

28 December 2020

Merger and acquisition (M&A) cases and the speed of horizontal integration have increased rapidly in the integrated circuit (IC) packaging and testing industry. Therefore, cooperation with suitable strategic alliance partner is a vital success fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
4,721 Views
21 Pages

19 April 2019

We calculated provincial carbon emissions efficiency and related influencing factors in China with the purpose of providing a reference for other developing countries to develop a green economy. Using panel data covering the period from 2004–20...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,856 Views
19 Pages

27 April 2015

Research and development (R&D) is a critical factor in sustaining a firm’s competitive advantage. Accurate measurement of R&D productivity and investigation of its influencing factors are of value for R&D productivity improvements. This s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,858 Views
11 Pages

Evaluation of Corporate Websites and Their Influence on the Performance of Olive Oil Companies

  • Enrique Bernal Jurado,
  • Adoración Mozas Moral,
  • Miguel Jesús Medina Viruel and
  • Domingo Fernández Uclés

20 April 2018

Spain is among the largest producers of organic olive in the world. Yet the Spanish organic olive oil sector faces a major commercial problem due to an internal demand that is too small to match the volume of supply. Factors that explain this problem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,918 Views
23 Pages

Renovating old neighborhoods for the benefit of people has become increasingly important in urban renewal. Nevertheless, old neighborhood renovations are currently considered a group decision-making issue under public participation, involving diverse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,045 Views
16 Pages

Energy innovation plays an important role in the transition to a zero-carbon economy. Governments in IEA member countries are investing in the R&D, demonstration, and deployment of new energy technologies as part of their energy and climate polic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,794 Views
14 Pages

14 April 2020

It has been established that culture can contribute to the sustainable development of a country and the world. In China, cultural demands are increasing while cultural resources are relatively scarce. Therefore, this paper evaluates the efficiency of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,807 Views
22 Pages

13 January 2018

As one of the important pillar industries in China, the automotive industry (i.e., the traditional vehicle and the new energy vehicle (NEV) sub-industries) plays a significant role in the national economy and social development. In this paper, by usi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,714 Views
13 Pages

Irish potato is one of the major staple food and cash crops in Cameroon. Several studies have been conducted on the agronomic aspect of the crop, but very little is known on the technical efficiency of potato producers in the country. This study exam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
11,519 Views
22 Pages

Risk of Bankruptcy, Its Determinants and Models

  • Jarmila Horváthová and
  • Martina Mokrišová

11 October 2018

In this paper, the following research problem was addressed: Is DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) method a suitable alternative to Altman model in predicting the risk of bankruptcy? Based on the above-mentioned research problem, we formulated the aim o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,071 Views
15 Pages

19 September 2024

This study introduces a novel approach to enhance variable selection in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), especially in stochastic environments where efficiency estimation is inherently complex. To address these challenges, we propose a game cross-DEA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,192 Views
14 Pages

Healthcare is a highly sophisticated segment of the public sector, which requires not only highly professional and competent staff, but also a properly set ratio of healthcare professionals. In the Czech Republic, the state, as the main guarantor of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,471 Views
16 Pages

28 October 2022

Sustainable development is a global trend and an economic priority for many governments. Although new energies can be considered good investments in green growth, they may lead to financial barriers to developing countries. The purpose of the study c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,915 Views
21 Pages

Evaluating 3D Printers Using Data Envelopment Analysis

  • Theodore Papatheodorou,
  • John Giannatsis and
  • Vassilis Dedoussis

5 May 2021

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is an established powerful mathematical programming technique, which has been employed quite extensively for assessing the efficiency/performance of various physical or virtual and simple or complex production systems,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
681 Views
28 Pages

Comprehensive DEA-Based Evaluation of Charging Station Operational Efficiency

  • Jinyu Wang,
  • Houzhi Li,
  • Yang Hu,
  • Jiejin Yan,
  • Chunhua Jin,
  • Zhuowen Zhang and
  • Zhen Yang

This study aims to evaluate the operational efficiency of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and explore optimization strategies to enhance resource utilization and service performance. A systematic review approach was first applied to identify...

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