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Barnabé Walheer
(Barnabe Walheer)

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Working papers

  1. Walheer, Barnabé & Zhang, Linjia, 2018. "Profit Luenberger and Malmquist-Luenberger indexes for multi-activity decision making units: the case of the star-rated hotel industry in China," RIEI Working Papers 2018-06, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Research Institute for Economic Integration.

    Cited by:

    1. Miao, Zhuang & Chen, Xiaodong & Baležentis, Tomas, 2021. "Improving energy use and mitigating pollutant emissions across “Three Regions and Ten Urban Agglomerations”: A city-level productivity growth decomposition," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 283(C).
    2. Walheer, Barnabé & Zhang, Linjia & Luo, Yingchan, 2020. "Bidirectional technological spillover in the Chinese star-rated hotel sector: An empirical investigation," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 210-226.
    3. Walheer, Barnabé, 2023. "Meta-frontier and technology switchers: A nonparametric approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 305(1), pages 463-474.
    4. Pengxia Shen & Ping Yin & Bingjie Niu, 2023. "Assessing the Combined Effects of Transportation Infrastructure on Regional Tourism Development in China Using a Spatial Econometric Model (GWPR)," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-18, January.
    5. Barnabé Walheer, 2020. "Output, input, and undesirable output interconnections in data envelopment analysis: convexity and returns-to-scale," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 284(1), pages 447-467, January.
    6. Yu, Ming-Miin, 2020. "Nerlovian profit inefficiency in non-fully-competitive settings: Definition and decomposition," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
    7. Barnabé Walheer, 2019. "Disaggregation for efficiency analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 51(2), pages 137-151, June.
    8. Walheer, Barnabe & Hudik, Marek, 2019. "Reallocation of resources in multidivisional firms: A nonparametric approach," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 214(C), pages 196-205.
    9. Miao, Zhuang & Chen, Xiaodong & Baležentis, Tomas & Sun, Chuanwang, 2019. "Atmospheric environmental productivity across the provinces of China: Joint decomposition of range adjusted measure and Luenberger productivity indicator," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 132(C), pages 665-677.
    10. Sinwoo Lee & Dong-Woon Noh & Dong-hyun Oh, 2018. "Characterizing the Difference between Indirect and Direct CO 2 Emissions: Evidence from Korean Manufacturing Industries, 2004–2010," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(8), pages 1-16, August.
    11. Chen, Xiaodong & Miao, Zhuang & Wu, Ge & Zhu, Pengyu, 2024. "City-level green growth accounting: Evidence from China's thirteen urban agglomerations," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 203(C).
    12. Papaioannou, Grammatoula & Podinovski, Victor V., 2023. "Multicomponent production technologies with restricted allocations of shared inputs and outputs," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 308(1), pages 274-289.
    13. Hai Dong & Qi-Bin Liang & Nicolas Peypoch, 2023. "Tourist attractions in efficiency analysis," Tourism Economics, , vol. 29(3), pages 835-841, May.
    14. Grammatoula Papaioannou & Victor V. Podinovski, 2025. "Free disposal hull models of multicomponent technologies," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 351(2), pages 1559-1587, August.
    15. Barnabé Walheer, 2019. "Dynamic directional nonparametric profit efficiency analysis for a single decision-making unit: an aggregation approach," OR Spectrum: Quantitative Approaches in Management, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V., vol. 41(4), pages 1123-1149, December.
    16. Zheng Wang & Jinhua Luo, 2024. "Evaluating the tourism green productivity and its driving factors in the context of climate change," Tourism Economics, , vol. 30(3), pages 655-679, May.
    17. Hai Dong & Nicolas Peypoch & Linjia Zhang, 2020. "Do contextual factors matter? Evidence from Chinese hotel productivity with heterogeneity," Tourism Economics, , vol. 26(2), pages 257-275, March.
    18. Anestis Fotiadis & Guych Nuryyev & Jennet Achyldurdyyeva & Anastasia Spyridou, 2019. "The Impact of EU Sponsorship, Size, and Geographic Characteristics on Rural Tourism Development," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-15, April.

  2. He, Ming & Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Technical efficiency and technology gap of the manufacturing industry in China: Does firm ownership matter?," RIEI Working Papers 2018-05, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Research Institute for Economic Integration.

    Cited by:

    1. Sari, Dyah Wulan & Restikasari, Wenny & Ajija, Shochrul Rohmatul & Tarbiyah Islamia, Haura Azzara & Muchtar, Darmawati, 2021. "The Impacts of Foreign Direct Investment and Export Expansion on the Performance of the High-Tech Manufacturing Industry," Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, vol. 55(2), pages 91-105.
    2. Wang, Chenxi & Wang, Deli & Deng, Xincai & Wu, Shangrui, 2025. "Does the participation of non-state shareholders matter for state-owned enterprises’ resilience?," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 98(C).
    3. Xiaoheng Zhang & Bingyu Huangfu & Shi Min, 2022. "Persistent and transient efficiency of the chemical fertilizer firms in China: Does ownership matter?," International Studies of Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 17(1), pages 108-124, June.
    4. Walheer, Barnabé, 2023. "Meta-frontier and technology switchers: A nonparametric approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 305(1), pages 463-474.
    5. He, Ming & Chen, Yang & van Marrewijk, Charles, 2021. "The effects of urban transformation on productivity spillovers in China," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 95(C), pages 473-488.
    6. Minchao Liao & Zeng'an Gao & Jingsong Zhou & Dehui Li, 2025. "Business model innovation driven by corporate social responsibility in a digital innovation ecosystem: Evidence from Chinese manufacturers," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 46(4), pages 2103-2119, June.
    7. Mohammad Imtiaz Hossain & Tze San Ong & Mosab I. Tabash & Boon Heng Teh, 2024. "The panorama of corporate environmental sustainability and green values: evidence of Bangladesh," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 26(1), pages 1033-1059, January.
    8. Li, Chengming & Xu, Yang & Zheng, Hao & Wang, Zeyu & Han, Haiting & Zeng, Liangen, 2023. "Artificial intelligence, resource reallocation, and corporate innovation efficiency: Evidence from China's listed companies," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    9. Ming Chen & Jiao Wu, 2023. "State ownership may not be bad: Based on bibliometric research (2002–2021)," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 44(2), pages 1285-1304, March.
    10. Li Liu & Tao Ding & Hao Wang, 2022. "Digital Economy, Technological Innovation and Green High-Quality Development of Industry: A Study Case of China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(17), pages 1-17, September.
    11. Gong, Yundan & Hanley, Aoife, 2021. "Exports and new products in China - A generalized propensity score approach with firm-to-firm spillovers," KCG Working Papers 24, Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG).
    12. Yang, Tongbin & Zhou, Bo, 2024. "Local FinTech development, industrial structure, and north-south economic disparity in China," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 93(C).
    13. Dong, Guowei & Kokko, Ari & Zhou, Haoyong, 2022. "Innovation and export performance of emerging market enterprises: The roles of state and foreign ownership in China," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 31(6).
    14. Trinh, Nguyen Chau & Tra, Pham Thi Thu & Van, Ha Thi Cam & Anh, Dao Le Trang, 2026. "FDI dominance and the scope for a modern domestic industry," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 55(1).
    15. Lin, Gan & Takahashi, Yoshifumi & Nomura, Hisako & Yabe, Mitsuyasu, 2022. "Policy incentives, ownership effects, and firm productivity—Evidence from China’s Agricultural Leading Firms Program," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 845-859.
    16. Anzolin, Guendalina & Andreoni, Antonio & Zanfei, Antonello, 2022. "What is driving robotisation in the automotive value chain? Empirical evidence on the role of FDIs and domestic capabilities in technology adoption," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 115(C).
    17. Hongli Liu & Xiaoyu Yan & Jinhua Cheng & Jun Zhang & Yan Bu, 2021. "Driving Factors for the Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity in Technical Efficiency of China’s New Energy Industry," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(14), pages 1-21, July.
    18. Jim Huangnan Shen & Weiping Li & Chien‐Chiang Lee, 2023. "Unlocking the myths of size expansion in China's large state‐owned enterprises: Theory and evidence," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 44(2), pages 1264-1284, March.
    19. Yang, Yang & Mukhopadhaya, Pundarik & Yu, Zhuangxiong, 2020. "Relationship between city size and firm productivity – A new interpretation using the Chinese experience," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 93(C), pages 546-558.
    20. Amin, Mohammad & Ali, Nesma, 2026. "Productivity Gap between Women- and Men-Run Private Hotels in Georgia : A Data Envelopment Analysis–Based Meta Frontier Analysis," Policy Research Working Paper Series 11310, The World Bank.
    21. Jorge Antunes & Abdollah Hadi-Vencheh & Ali Jamshidi & Yong Tan & Peter Wanke, 2022. "Bank efficiency estimation in China: DEA-RENNA approach," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 315(2), pages 1373-1398, August.
    22. Shi Yin & Nan Zhang & Baizhou Li, 2020. "Improving the Effectiveness of Multi-Agent Cooperation for Green Manufacturing in China: A Theoretical Framework to Measure the Performance of Green Technology Innovation," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(9), pages 1-27, May.
    23. Chih-Hai Yang & Meng-Wen Tsou, 2025. "Labor cost shock, export, and export compositions: evidence from China," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 69(3), pages 1315-1333, September.

  3. Laurens Cherchye & Bram De Rock & Barnabé Walheer, 2014. "Multi-output Profit Efficiency and Directional Distance Functions," Working Papers ECARES ECARES 2014-51, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

    Cited by:

    1. Ding, Jingjing & Dong, Wei & Liang, Liang & Zhu, Joe, 2017. "Goal congruence analysis in multi-Division Organizations with shared resources based on data envelopment analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 263(3), pages 961-973.
    2. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Disaggregation of the cost Malmquist productivity index with joint and output-specific inputs," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 1-12.
    3. Walheer, Barnabé, 2016. "Growth and convergence of the OECD countries: A multi-sector production-frontier approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 252(2), pages 665-675.
    4. Raul Moragues & Juan Aparicio & Miriam Esteve, 2023. "Ranking the Importance of Variables in a Nonparametric Frontier Analysis Using Unsupervised Machine Learning Techniques," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(11), pages 1-24, June.
    5. Majid Azadi & Balal Karimi & William Ho & Reza Farzipoor Saen, 2022. "Assessing green performance of power plants by multiple hybrid returns to scale technologies," OR Spectrum: Quantitative Approaches in Management, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V., vol. 44(4), pages 1177-1211, December.
    6. Hampf, Benjamin, 2017. "Rational inefficiency, adjustment costs and sequential technologies," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 263(3), pages 1095-1108.
    7. Victor V. Podinovski & Ole Bent Olesen & Cláudia S. Sarrico, 2018. "Nonparametric Production Technologies with Multiple Component Processes," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 66(1), pages 282-300, January.
    8. Mehdiloo, Mahmood & Podinovski, Victor V., 2021. "Strong, weak and Farrell efficient frontiers of technologies satisfying different production assumptions," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 294(1), pages 295-311.
    9. Barnabé Walheer, 2020. "Output, input, and undesirable output interconnections in data envelopment analysis: convexity and returns-to-scale," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 284(1), pages 447-467, January.
    10. Cherchye, Laurens & De Rock, Bram & Dierynck, Bart & Kerstens, Pieter Jan & Roodhooft, Filip, 2023. "A DEA-based approach to customer value analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 308(3), pages 1319-1331.
    11. Visani, Franco & Boccali, Filippo, 2020. "Purchasing price assessment of leverage items: A Data Envelopment Analysis approach," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 223(C).
    12. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Aggregation of metafrontier technology gap ratios: the case of European sectors in 1995–2015," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 269(3), pages 1013-1026.
    13. Yu, Ming-Miin, 2020. "Nerlovian profit inefficiency in non-fully-competitive settings: Definition and decomposition," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
    14. Barnabé Walheer, 2019. "Disaggregation for efficiency analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 51(2), pages 137-151, June.
    15. Walheer, Barnabé, 2019. "Aggregating Farrell efficiencies with private and public inputs," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 276(3), pages 1170-1177.
    16. Barnabé Walheer, 2016. "Multi-Sector Nonparametric Production-Frontier Analysis of the Economic Growth and the Convergence of the European Countries," Pacific Economic Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 21(4), pages 498-524, October.
    17. Nishtha Gupta & Jolly Puri & Gautam Setia, 2025. "Profit efficiency estimation and prediction of banks with mixed structure: a unified DDF-based network DEA and ML approach," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 25(3), pages 1-39, September.
    18. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Scale efficiency for multi-output cost minimizing producers: The case of the US electricity plants," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 26-36.
    19. Walheer, Barnabe & Hudik, Marek, 2019. "Reallocation of resources in multidivisional firms: A nonparametric approach," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 214(C), pages 196-205.
    20. Valentin Zelenyuk & Valentyn Panchenko, 2024. "Generalized theory for measuring efficiency of individuals and groups," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 332(1), pages 781-806, January.
    21. Cynthia A. Bartel & Keri L. Jacobs & Kenneth J. Moore & D. Raj Raman, 2024. "Anticipatory Technoeconomic Evaluation of Kentucky Bluegrass-Based Perennial Groundcover Implementations in Large-Scale Midwestern US Corn Production Systems," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(16), pages 1-16, August.
    22. Victor V. Podinovski, 2022. "Variable and Constant Returns-to-Scale Production Technologies with Component Processes," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 70(2), pages 1238-1258, March.
    23. Podinovski, Victor V., 2017. "Returns to scale in convex production technologies," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 258(3), pages 970-982.
    24. Alireza Amirteimoori & Biresh K. Sahoo & Saber Mehdizadeh, 2023. "Data envelopment analysis for scale elasticity measurement in the stochastic case: with an application to Indian banking," Financial Innovation, Springer;Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, vol. 9(1), pages 1-36, December.
    25. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Economic growth and greenhouse gases in Europe: A non-radial multi-sector nonparametric production-frontier analysis," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 51-62.
    26. Walheer, Barnabé, 2019. "Malmquist productivity index for multi-output producers: An application to electricity generation plants," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 76-88.
    27. Juan Aparicio & Jesús T. Pastor & José L. Zofío, 2026. "Interpreting profit-related inefficiencies as Euclidean distances in the context of directional distance functions and data envelopment analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 65(1), pages 1-16, March.
    28. Papaioannou, Grammatoula & Podinovski, Victor V., 2023. "Multicomponent production technologies with restricted allocations of shared inputs and outputs," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 308(1), pages 274-289.
    29. Zhao, Linlin & Zha, Yong & Zhuang, Yuliang & Liang, Liang, 2019. "Data envelopment analysis for sustainability evaluation in China: Tackling the economic, environmental, and social dimensions," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 275(3), pages 1083-1095.
    30. Bilel Jarraya & Hatem Afi & Anis Omri, 2023. "Analyzing the Profitability and Efficiency in European Non-Life Insurance Industry," Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, Springer, vol. 25(2), pages 1-25, June.
    31. Victor H. Aguiar & Roy Allen & Nail Kashaev, 2020. "Prices, Profits, Proxies, and Production," University of Western Ontario, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP) Working Papers 20202, University of Western Ontario, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP).
    32. Moragues, Raul & Aparicio, Juan & Esteve, Miriam, 2023. "An unsupervised learning-based generalization of Data Envelopment Analysis," Operations Research Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 11(C).
    33. Grammatoula Papaioannou & Victor V. Podinovski, 2025. "Free disposal hull models of multicomponent technologies," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 351(2), pages 1559-1587, August.
    34. Barnabé Walheer, 2019. "Dynamic directional nonparametric profit efficiency analysis for a single decision-making unit: an aggregation approach," OR Spectrum: Quantitative Approaches in Management, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V., vol. 41(4), pages 1123-1149, December.
    35. Barnabé Walheer, 2019. "Scale, congestion, and technical efficiency of European countries: a sector-based nonparametric approach," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 56(6), pages 2025-2078, June.
    36. Walheer, Barnabé & Zhang, Linjia, 2018. "Profit Luenberger and Malmquist-Luenberger indexes for multi-activity decision making units: the case of the star-rated hotel industry in China," RIEI Working Papers 2018-06, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Research Institute for Economic Integration.
    37. Barnabé Walheer, 2024. "Agro-Climatic Environment Heterogeneity and Productivity Convergence," Journal of Quantitative Economics, Springer;The Indian Econometric Society (TIES), vol. 22(4), pages 1001-1037, December.
    38. Barnabé Walheer, 2022. "Global Malmquist and cost Malmquist indexes for group comparison," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 58(1), pages 75-93, August.
    39. Kim, Myungjun & Kang, Sangmok, 2026. "Integrating dimensionality reduction and clustering for measuring profit efficiency: A stochastic meta-frontier approach in Korean manufacturing sector," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 89(C), pages 35-56.
    40. Barnabé Walheer, 2018. "Cost Malmquist productivity index: an output-specific approach for group comparison," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 49(1), pages 79-94, February.
    41. Tavana, Madjid & Izadikhah, Mohammad & Toloo, Mehdi & Roostaee, Razieh, 2021. "A new non-radial directional distance model for data envelopment analysis problems with negative and flexible measures," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 102(C).
    42. Sung Ko Li & Chun Kei Tsang & Shu Kam Lee, 2024. "Partially Convex Production Technology and Efficiency Measurement," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 62(3), pages 303-320, December.

  4. Laurens Cherchye & Bram De Rock & Antonio Estache & Barnabé Walheer, 2013. "Reducing Energy Use without Affecting the Economic Objectives: a Sectoral Analysis," Working Papers ECARES ECARES 2013-11, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

    Cited by:

    1. Walheer, Barnabé, 2016. "Growth and convergence of the OECD countries: A multi-sector production-frontier approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 252(2), pages 665-675.
    2. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Aggregation of metafrontier technology gap ratios: the case of European sectors in 1995–2015," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 269(3), pages 1013-1026.
    3. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Economic growth and greenhouse gases in Europe: A non-radial multi-sector nonparametric production-frontier analysis," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 51-62.
    4. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Labour productivity growth and energy in Europe: A production-frontier approach," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 152(C), pages 129-143.
    5. Laurens Cherchye & Bram De Rock & Barnabé Walheer, 2013. "Efficiency Analysis in the Presence of Bad Outputs," Working Papers ECARES ECARES 2013-12, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

  5. Laurens Cherchye & Bram De Rock & Barnabé Walheer, 2013. "Multi-Output Efficiency with Good and Bad Outputs," Working Papers ECARES ECARES 2013-35, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

    Cited by:

    1. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Disaggregation of the cost Malmquist productivity index with joint and output-specific inputs," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 1-12.
    2. Silva, Maria Conceição A., 2018. "Output-specific inputs in DEA: An application to courts of justice in Portugal," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 79(C), pages 43-53.
    3. Walheer, Barnabé, 2016. "Growth and convergence of the OECD countries: A multi-sector production-frontier approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 252(2), pages 665-675.
    4. Sebastian Cuadros & Yeny E. Rodríguez & Javier Contreras, 2020. "Dynamic Data Envelopment Analysis Model Involving Undesirable Outputs in the Electricity Power Generation Sector: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean Countries," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(24), pages 1-20, December.
    5. Majid Azadi & Balal Karimi & William Ho & Reza Farzipoor Saen, 2022. "Assessing green performance of power plants by multiple hybrid returns to scale technologies," OR Spectrum: Quantitative Approaches in Management, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V., vol. 44(4), pages 1177-1211, December.
    6. Hampf, Benjamin, 2017. "Rational inefficiency, adjustment costs and sequential technologies," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 263(3), pages 1095-1108.
    7. Victor V. Podinovski & Ole Bent Olesen & Cláudia S. Sarrico, 2018. "Nonparametric Production Technologies with Multiple Component Processes," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 66(1), pages 282-300, January.
    8. Rogge, Nicky & Simper, Richard & Verschelde, Marijn & Hall, Maximilian, 2015. "An analysis of managerialism and performance in English and Welsh male prisons," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 241(1), pages 224-235.
    9. Ather Hassan Dar & Somesh Kumar Mathur & Sila Mishra, 2021. "The Efficiency of Indian Banks: A DEA, Malmquist and SFA Analysis with Bad Output," Journal of Quantitative Economics, Springer;The Indian Econometric Society (TIES), vol. 19(4), pages 653-701, December.
    10. Barnabé Walheer, 2020. "Output, input, and undesirable output interconnections in data envelopment analysis: convexity and returns-to-scale," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 284(1), pages 447-467, January.
    11. Hennebel, Veerle & Simper, Richard & Verschelde, Marijn, 2017. "Is there a prison size dilemma? An empirical analysis of output-specific economies of scale," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 262(1), pages 306-321.
    12. Cherchye, Laurens & De Rock, Bram & Dierynck, Bart & Kerstens, Pieter Jan & Roodhooft, Filip, 2023. "A DEA-based approach to customer value analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 308(3), pages 1319-1331.
    13. Antonio Peyrache & Maria C. A. Silva, 2023. "Efficiency decomposition for multi-level multi-components production technologies," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(3), pages 273-294, December.
    14. Zhou, D.Q. & Wu, F. & Zhou, X. & Zhou, P., 2016. "Output-specific energy efficiency assessment: A data envelopment analysis approach," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 177(C), pages 117-126.
    15. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Aggregation of metafrontier technology gap ratios: the case of European sectors in 1995–2015," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 269(3), pages 1013-1026.
    16. Barnabé Walheer, 2019. "Disaggregation for efficiency analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 51(2), pages 137-151, June.
    17. Maria Conceição Portela, 2016. "Output-specific inputs in DEA: an application to courts," Working Papers de Gestão (Management Working Papers) 02, Católica Porto Business School, Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
    18. Walheer, Barnabé, 2019. "Aggregating Farrell efficiencies with private and public inputs," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 276(3), pages 1170-1177.
    19. Barnabé Walheer, 2016. "Multi-Sector Nonparametric Production-Frontier Analysis of the Economic Growth and the Convergence of the European Countries," Pacific Economic Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 21(4), pages 498-524, October.
    20. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Scale efficiency for multi-output cost minimizing producers: The case of the US electricity plants," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 26-36.
    21. Walheer, Barnabe & Hudik, Marek, 2019. "Reallocation of resources in multidivisional firms: A nonparametric approach," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 214(C), pages 196-205.
    22. Michael L. Polemis & Mike G. Tsionas, 2022. "Endogenous productivity: a new Bayesian perspective," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 318(1), pages 425-451, November.
    23. Justas Streimikis & Z. Y. Shen & Tomas Balezentis, 2024. "Does the energy-related greenhouse gas emission abatement cost depend on the optimization direction: shadow pricing based on the weak disposability technology in the European Union agriculture," Central European Journal of Operations Research, Springer;Slovak Society for Operations Research;Hungarian Operational Research Society;Czech Society for Operations Research;Österr. Gesellschaft für Operations Research (ÖGOR);Slovenian Society Informatika - Section for Operational Research;Croatian Operational Research Society, vol. 32(3), pages 593-619, September.
    24. Cynthia A. Bartel & Keri L. Jacobs & Kenneth J. Moore & D. Raj Raman, 2024. "Anticipatory Technoeconomic Evaluation of Kentucky Bluegrass-Based Perennial Groundcover Implementations in Large-Scale Midwestern US Corn Production Systems," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(16), pages 1-16, August.
    25. Mohammad Izadikhah & Reza Farzipoor Saen, 2020. "Ranking sustainable suppliers by context-dependent data envelopment analysis," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 293(2), pages 607-637, October.
    26. Podinovski, Victor V., 2017. "Returns to scale in convex production technologies," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 258(3), pages 970-982.
    27. Alireza Amirteimoori & Biresh K. Sahoo & Saber Mehdizadeh, 2023. "Data envelopment analysis for scale elasticity measurement in the stochastic case: with an application to Indian banking," Financial Innovation, Springer;Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, vol. 9(1), pages 1-36, December.
    28. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Economic growth and greenhouse gases in Europe: A non-radial multi-sector nonparametric production-frontier analysis," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 51-62.
    29. Walheer, Barnabé, 2019. "Malmquist productivity index for multi-output producers: An application to electricity generation plants," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 76-88.
    30. Gaganis, Chrysovalantis & Pasiouras, Fotios & Tasiou, Menelaos & Zopounidis, Constantin, 2021. "CISEF: A composite index of social, environmental and financial performance," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 291(1), pages 394-409.
    31. Zhao, Linlin & Zha, Yong & Zhuang, Yuliang & Liang, Liang, 2019. "Data envelopment analysis for sustainability evaluation in China: Tackling the economic, environmental, and social dimensions," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 275(3), pages 1083-1095.
    32. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Labour productivity growth and energy in Europe: A production-frontier approach," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 152(C), pages 129-143.
    33. Bigerna, Simona & D'Errico, Maria Chiara & Polinori, Paolo, 2020. "Heterogeneous impacts of regulatory policy stringency on the EU electricity Industry:A Bayesian shrinkage dynamic analysis," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 142(C).
    34. Laurens Cherchye & Bram De Rock & Barnabé Walheer, 2014. "Multi-output Profit Efficiency and Directional Distance Functions," Working Papers ECARES ECARES 2014-51, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    35. Ricardo F. Díaz & Blanca Sanchez-Robles, 2020. "Non-Parametric Analysis of Efficiency: An Application to the Pharmaceutical Industry," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 8(9), pages 1-27, September.
    36. Barnabé Walheer, 2019. "Scale, congestion, and technical efficiency of European countries: a sector-based nonparametric approach," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 56(6), pages 2025-2078, June.
    37. Walheer, Barnabé & Zhang, Linjia, 2018. "Profit Luenberger and Malmquist-Luenberger indexes for multi-activity decision making units: the case of the star-rated hotel industry in China," RIEI Working Papers 2018-06, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Research Institute for Economic Integration.
    38. Barnabé Walheer, 2024. "Agro-Climatic Environment Heterogeneity and Productivity Convergence," Journal of Quantitative Economics, Springer;The Indian Econometric Society (TIES), vol. 22(4), pages 1001-1037, December.
    39. Barnabé Walheer, 2022. "Global Malmquist and cost Malmquist indexes for group comparison," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 58(1), pages 75-93, August.
    40. Walheer, Barnabé & He, Ming, 2020. "Technical efficiency and technology gap of the manufacturing industry in China: Does firm ownership matter?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 127(C).
    41. Barnabé Walheer, 2018. "Cost Malmquist productivity index: an output-specific approach for group comparison," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 49(1), pages 79-94, February.
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    9. Amit Pandey & Ravi Kiran & Rakesh Kumar Sharma, 2022. "Investigating the Impact of Financial Inclusion Drivers, Financial Literacy and Financial Initiatives in Fostering Sustainable Growth in North India," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(17), pages 1-21, September.
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    5. Qin, Weiguang & Bhattarai, Keshab, 2021. "Convergence in Labor Productivity across Provinces and Production Sectors in China," MPRA Paper 111191, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Cynthia A. Bartel & Keri L. Jacobs & Kenneth J. Moore & D. Raj Raman, 2024. "Anticipatory Technoeconomic Evaluation of Kentucky Bluegrass-Based Perennial Groundcover Implementations in Large-Scale Midwestern US Corn Production Systems," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(16), pages 1-16, August.
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    13. Tan, Yong & Walheer, Barnabé, 2025. "On decomposing the energy rebound effect," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 149(C).
    14. Barnabé Walheer & Sergio Perelman, 2025. "Resource capacity and economic growth convergence," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 63(3), pages 317-338, June.

  11. Barnabe Walheer, 2020. "A sector-based nonparametric decomposition of economic growth," Economics and Business Letters, Oviedo University Press, vol. 9(2), pages 48-55.

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    6. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Economic growth and greenhouse gases in Europe: A non-radial multi-sector nonparametric production-frontier analysis," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 51-62.
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    4. Panagiotis Artelaris, 2022. "A development index for the Greek regions," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 56(3), pages 1261-1281, June.
    5. Nan Wu & Mengjiao Zhang & Yan Huang & Jiawei Wang, 2024. "Staged Resource Allocation Optimization under Heterogeneous Grouping Based on Interval Data: The Case of China’s Forest Carbon Sequestration," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 12(17), pages 1-25, August.
    6. Charlotte Wüst & Nicky Rogge, 2022. "How is the European Union progressing towards its Europe 2020 targets? A benefit-of-the-doubt window analysis," Empirica, Springer;Austrian Institute for Economic Research;Austrian Economic Association, vol. 49(2), pages 405-438, May.
    7. Fan Liu & Barnabé Walheer, 2022. "Financial inclusion, financial technology, and economic development: a composite index approach," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 63(3), pages 1457-1487, September.

  19. Walheer, Barnabe & Hudik, Marek, 2019. "Reallocation of resources in multidivisional firms: A nonparametric approach," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 214(C), pages 196-205.

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    1. Xiong, Xi & Yang, Guo-liang & Zhou, De-qun & Wang, Zi-long, 2022. "How to allocate multi-period research resources? Centralized resource allocation for public universities in China using a parallel DEA-based approach," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 82(PB).
    2. Josef Jablonský & Michal Černý & Juraj Pekár, 2022. "The last dozen of years of OR research in Czechia and Slovakia," Central European Journal of Operations Research, Springer;Slovak Society for Operations Research;Hungarian Operational Research Society;Czech Society for Operations Research;Österr. Gesellschaft für Operations Research (ÖGOR);Slovenian Society Informatika - Section for Operational Research;Croatian Operational Research Society, vol. 30(2), pages 435-447, June.

  20. Barnabé Walheer, 2019. "Disaggregation for efficiency analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 51(2), pages 137-151, June.

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    1. Xian-tong Ren & Guo-liang Yang, 2024. "Eliminating congestion in China’s papermaking and paper products industry: From both the perspective of increasing and decreasing inputs," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 61(1), pages 63-82, February.

  21. Barnabé Walheer, 2019. "Dynamic directional nonparametric profit efficiency analysis for a single decision-making unit: an aggregation approach," OR Spectrum: Quantitative Approaches in Management, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V., vol. 41(4), pages 1123-1149, December.

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    1. Héctor Darío Balseiro Barrios & Jorge Armando Luna Amador & Francisco Javier Maza �vila, 2021. "Análisis de eficiencia financiera de las empresas cotizantes en el mercado accionario colombiano para el periodo 2012- 2017," Revista Finanzas y Politica Economica, Universidad Católica de Colombia, vol. 13(1), pages 19-41.

  22. Barnabé Walheer, 2019. "Is constant returns-to-scale a restrictive assumption for sector-level empirical macroeconomics? The case of Europe," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(3), pages 231-236, February.

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    1. Zhao, Linlin & Zhu, Qingyuan & Zhang, Lin, 2021. "Regulation adaptive strategy and bank efficiency: A network slacks-based measure with shared resources," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 295(1), pages 348-362.
    2. Zhao, Linlin & Zha, Yong & Zhuang, Yuliang & Liang, Liang, 2019. "Data envelopment analysis for sustainability evaluation in China: Tackling the economic, environmental, and social dimensions," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 275(3), pages 1083-1095.
    3. Zhang, Lin & Zhao, Linlin & Zha, Yong, 2021. "Efficiency evaluation of Chinese regional industrial systems using a dynamic two-stage DEA approach," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).
    4. Tan, Yong & Walheer, Barnabé, 2025. "On decomposing the energy rebound effect," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 149(C).

  23. Walheer, Barnabé, 2019. "Aggregating Farrell efficiencies with private and public inputs," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 276(3), pages 1170-1177.

    Cited by:

    1. Manh Pham & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2024. "Statistical Inference for Aggregation of Malmquist Productivity Indices," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 72(4), pages 1615-1629, July.
    2. Rolf Färe & Giannis Karagiannis, 2024. "The denominator rule with unit ratio difference," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 61(2), pages 183-190, April.
    3. Valentin Zelenyuk & Valentyn Panchenko, 2024. "Generalized theory for measuring efficiency of individuals and groups," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 332(1), pages 781-806, January.
    4. Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin & Zhao, Shirong, 2024. "Inference for aggregate efficiency: Theory and guidelines for practitioners," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 316(1), pages 240-254.
    5. Valentin Zelenyuk & Valentyn Panchenko, 2023. "Bayesian Artificial Neural Networks for Frontier Efficiency Analysis," CEPA Working Papers Series WP022023, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

  24. Barnabé Walheer, 2019. "Scale, congestion, and technical efficiency of European countries: a sector-based nonparametric approach," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 56(6), pages 2025-2078, June.

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    1. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Economic growth and greenhouse gases in Europe: A non-radial multi-sector nonparametric production-frontier analysis," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 51-62.
    2. Djokoto, Justice G. & Agyeiwaa-Afrane, Akua & Badu-Prah, Charlotte & Gidiglo, Ferguson K. & Srofenyoh, Francis Y. & Agyei-Henaku, Kofi Aaron A-O., 2025. "Application of the estimation of multiple effect size to frontier efficiency meta-regression of agriculture in Ghana," Research in Economics, Elsevier, vol. 79(1).
    3. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Labour productivity growth and energy in Europe: A production-frontier approach," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 152(C), pages 129-143.
    4. Walheer, Barnabé & He, Ming, 2020. "Technical efficiency and technology gap of the manufacturing industry in China: Does firm ownership matter?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 127(C).

  25. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Scale efficiency for multi-output cost minimizing producers: The case of the US electricity plants," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 26-36.

    Cited by:

    1. Barnabé Walheer, 2020. "Output, input, and undesirable output interconnections in data envelopment analysis: convexity and returns-to-scale," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 284(1), pages 447-467, January.
    2. Nsabimana, René & Perelman, Sergio & Walheer, Barnabé & Mapapa, Mbangala, 2024. "Effectiveness and efficiency in access to reliable electricity: The case of East African countries," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 93(C).
    3. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Aggregation of metafrontier technology gap ratios: the case of European sectors in 1995–2015," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 269(3), pages 1013-1026.
    4. Zhao, Hongli & Lin, Boqiang, 2019. "Resources allocation and more efficient use of energy in China's textile industry," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 185(C), pages 111-120.
    5. Zufeng Shang & Fenglai Wang & Xu Yang, 2022. "The Efficiency of the Chinese Prefabricated Building Industry and Its Influencing Factors: An Empirical Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(17), pages 1-25, August.
    6. Walheer, Barnabé, 2019. "Aggregating Farrell efficiencies with private and public inputs," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 276(3), pages 1170-1177.
    7. Walheer, Barnabe & Hudik, Marek, 2019. "Reallocation of resources in multidivisional firms: A nonparametric approach," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 214(C), pages 196-205.
    8. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Economic growth and greenhouse gases in Europe: A non-radial multi-sector nonparametric production-frontier analysis," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 51-62.
    9. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Labour productivity growth and energy in Europe: A production-frontier approach," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 152(C), pages 129-143.
    10. Barnabé Walheer, 2019. "Scale, congestion, and technical efficiency of European countries: a sector-based nonparametric approach," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 56(6), pages 2025-2078, June.

  26. Barnabé Walheer, 2018. "Decomposing the Europe 2020 Index," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 140(3), pages 875-905, December.

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    1. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Aggregation of metafrontier technology gap ratios: the case of European sectors in 1995–2015," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 269(3), pages 1013-1026.
    2. Magdalena Radulescu & Aleksandra Fedajev & Crenguta Ileana Sinisi & Constanta Popescu & Silvia Elena Iacob, 2018. "Europe 2020 Implementation as Driver of Economic Performance and Competitiveness. Panel Analysis of CEE Countries," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(2), pages 1-20, February.
    3. Anna Magdalena Korzeniowska, 2021. "Heterogeneity of government social spending in European Union countries," Future Business Journal, Springer, vol. 7(1), pages 1-9, December.
    4. Andres, Luis A. & Garrido, Juliana & Gonzalez, Julio & Marques, Rui Cunha, 2024. "Assessing regulatory governance for the water and sanitation Agencies in Brazil," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
    5. Ewa Mazur-Wierzbicka, 2022. "Measurement of Progress in the Environmental Area: Poland against the Countries of the European Union," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(1), pages 1-27, December.
    6. Adriana Z. F. C. Nishimura & Ana Moreira & Manuel Au-Yong-Oliveira & Maria José Sousa, 2021. "Effectiveness of the Portugal 2020 Programme: A Study from the Citizens’ Perspective," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-21, May.
    7. Ewa Roszkowska & Marzena Filipowicz-Chomko, 2021. "Measuring Sustainable Development Using an Extended Hellwig Method: A Case Study of Education," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 153(1), pages 299-322, January.
    8. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Economic growth and greenhouse gases in Europe: A non-radial multi-sector nonparametric production-frontier analysis," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 51-62.
    9. Emília Duľová Spišáková & Barbora Gontkovičová & Emil Spišák, 2021. "Assessment of Research and Development Financing Based on the Strategies in EU: Case of Sweden, Slovakia and Romania," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(15), pages 1-18, August.
    10. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Labour productivity growth and energy in Europe: A production-frontier approach," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 152(C), pages 129-143.
    11. Walheer, Barnabé, 2024. "A sequential benefit-of-the-doubt composite indicator," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 316(1), pages 228-239.
    12. Izabela Młynarzewska-Borowiec, 2021. "Does Implementation of the Smart Growth Priority Affect Per Capita Income of EU countries?—Empirical Analysis for the Period 2000–2017," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 12(3), pages 1345-1366, September.
    13. Barnabé Walheer, 2019. "Scale, congestion, and technical efficiency of European countries: a sector-based nonparametric approach," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 56(6), pages 2025-2078, June.
    14. Marek Walesiak & Grażyna Dehnel & Marek Obrębalski, 2021. "Assessment of the Europe 2020 Strategy: A Multidimensional Indicator Analysis via Dynamic Relative Taxonomy," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(16), pages 1-20, August.
    15. Charlotte Wüst & Nicky Rogge, 2022. "How is the European Union progressing towards its Europe 2020 targets? A benefit-of-the-doubt window analysis," Empirica, Springer;Austrian Institute for Economic Research;Austrian Economic Association, vol. 49(2), pages 405-438, May.
    16. Barbara Kryk & Małgorzata Klaudia Guzowska, 2021. "Implementation of Climate/Energy Targets of the Europe 2020 Strategy by the EU Member States," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(9), pages 1-18, May.

  27. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Aggregation of metafrontier technology gap ratios: the case of European sectors in 1995–2015," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 269(3), pages 1013-1026.

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    1. Manh Pham & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2024. "Statistical Inference for Aggregation of Malmquist Productivity Indices," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 72(4), pages 1615-1629, July.
    2. Walheer, Barnabé & Zhang, Linjia & Luo, Yingchan, 2020. "Bidirectional technological spillover in the Chinese star-rated hotel sector: An empirical investigation," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 210-226.
    3. Gautier, Axel & Nsabimana, René & Walheer, Barnabé, 2023. "Quality performance gaps and minimal electricity losses in East Africa," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    4. Walheer, Barnabé, 2023. "Meta-frontier and technology switchers: A nonparametric approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 305(1), pages 463-474.
    5. Barnabé Walheer, 2019. "Disentangling Heterogeneity Gaps and Pure Performance Differences in Composite Indexes Over Time: The Case of the Europe 2020 Strategy," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 143(1), pages 25-45, May.
    6. Jin, Qianying & Kerstens, Kristiaan & Van de Woestyne, Ignace, 2020. "Metafrontier productivity indices: Questioning the common convexification strategy," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 283(2), pages 737-747.
    7. Jiandong Chen & Chong Xu & Qianjiao Xie & Malin Song, 2020. "Net primary productivity‐based factors of China's carbon intensity: A regional perspective," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 51(4), pages 1727-1748, December.
    8. Barnabé Walheer, 2020. "Output, input, and undesirable output interconnections in data envelopment analysis: convexity and returns-to-scale," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 284(1), pages 447-467, January.
    9. Barnabé Walheer, 2021. "A directional technology convergence index," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 41(3), pages 1330-1337.
    10. Afsharian, Mohsen & Bogetoft, Peter, 2023. "Limiting flexibility in nonparametric efficiency evaluations: An ex post k-centroid clustering approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 311(2), pages 633-647.
    11. Barnabé Walheer, 2019. "Disaggregation for efficiency analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 51(2), pages 137-151, June.
    12. Walheer, Barnabé, 2019. "Aggregating Farrell efficiencies with private and public inputs," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 276(3), pages 1170-1177.
    13. Hung-pin Lai & Cliff J. Huang & Tsu-Tan Fu, 2020. "Estimation of the production profile and metafrontier technology gap: a quantile approach," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 58(6), pages 2709-2731, June.
    14. Afsharian, Mohsen & Ahn, Heinz & Harms, Sören Guntram, 2019. "Performance comparison of management groups under centralised management," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 278(3), pages 845-854.
    15. Walheer, Barnabe & Hudik, Marek, 2019. "Reallocation of resources in multidivisional firms: A nonparametric approach," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 214(C), pages 196-205.
    16. Valentin Zelenyuk & Valentyn Panchenko, 2024. "Generalized theory for measuring efficiency of individuals and groups," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 332(1), pages 781-806, January.
    17. Kerstens, Kristiaan & O’Donnell, Christopher & Van de Woestyne, Ignace & Zhao, Shirong, 2026. "When cost metafrontiers are nonconvex in the outputs, then the production metafrontier is nonconvex: the price of a convexification strategy," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 328(1), pages 324-335.
    18. Antonio Peyrache, 2024. "Homothetic Data Generated Production Metatechnologies," CEPA Working Papers Series WP022024, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    19. Ching-Ren Chiu & Ming-Chung Chang & Jin-Li Hu, 2022. "Energy intensity improvement and energy productivity changes: an analysis of BRICS and G7 countries," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 57(3), pages 297-311, June.
    20. Cynthia A. Bartel & Keri L. Jacobs & Kenneth J. Moore & D. Raj Raman, 2024. "Anticipatory Technoeconomic Evaluation of Kentucky Bluegrass-Based Perennial Groundcover Implementations in Large-Scale Midwestern US Corn Production Systems," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(16), pages 1-16, August.
    21. Núñez, F. & Arcos-Vargas, A. & Villa, G., 2020. "Efficiency benchmarking and remuneration of Spanish electricity distribution companies," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 67(C).
    22. Nicola GALLUZZO, 2023. "An Analysis Of Crop Costs In Italian Nitrate Vulnerable Areas And Agri-Environmental Subsidies," Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Institute of Agricultural Economics, vol. 20(1), pages 15-28.
    23. Yantuan Yu & Jianhuan Huang & Yanmin Shao, 2019. "The Sustainability Performance of Chinese Banks: A New Network Data Envelopment Analysis Approach and Panel Regression," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(6), pages 1-25, March.
    24. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Economic growth and greenhouse gases in Europe: A non-radial multi-sector nonparametric production-frontier analysis," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 51-62.
    25. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Labour productivity growth and energy in Europe: A production-frontier approach," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 152(C), pages 129-143.
    26. Walheer, Barnabé, 2024. "A sequential benefit-of-the-doubt composite indicator," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 316(1), pages 228-239.
    27. Jiani Liu & Kim Jungyin & Shim Jaewoo & Lee Heechul & Wasi Ul Hassan Shah, 2024. "Evaluating the efficiency, productivity change, and technology gaps of China’s provincial higher education systems: A comprehensive analytical framework," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(1), pages 1-25, January.
    28. Nguyen, Minh-Anh Thi & Yu, Ming-Miin & Lirn, Taih-Cherng, 2022. "Revenue efficiency across airline business models: A bootstrap non-convex meta-frontier approach," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 117(C), pages 108-117.
    29. Hai-Yen Chang & Lien-Wen Liang & Yu-Luan Liu, 2021. "Using Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) and Financial Indicators to Measure Bank Cost Efficiency in Asia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(20), pages 1-20, October.
    30. Walheer, Barnabé, 2021. "Labor productivity and technology heterogeneity," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).
    31. Minh‐Anh Thi Nguyen & Ming‐Miin Yu, 2020. "Decomposing the operational efficiency of major cruise lines: A network data envelopment analysis approach in the presence of shared input and quasi‐fixed input," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 41(8), pages 1501-1516, December.
    32. Barnabé Walheer, 2024. "Agro-Climatic Environment Heterogeneity and Productivity Convergence," Journal of Quantitative Economics, Springer;The Indian Econometric Society (TIES), vol. 22(4), pages 1001-1037, December.
    33. Chen, Jiandong & Xu, Chong & Song, Malin & Deng, Xiangzheng & Shen, Zhiyang, 2022. "Towards sustainable development: Distribution effect of carbon-food nexus in Chinese cities," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 309(C).
    34. Xu, Chong & Qin, Zengqiang & Chen, Jiandong & Zhang, Jiangxue, 2024. "Heterogeneous technology-induced global CO2 emission reduction and emission forecasting since the Kyoto era," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 371(C).
    35. Walheer, Barnabé & He, Ming, 2020. "Technical efficiency and technology gap of the manufacturing industry in China: Does firm ownership matter?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 127(C).
    36. Barnabé Walheer & Sergio Perelman, 2025. "Resource capacity and economic growth convergence," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 63(3), pages 317-338, June.
    37. Valentin Zelenyuk & Valentyn Panchenko, 2023. "Bayesian Artificial Neural Networks for Frontier Efficiency Analysis," CEPA Working Papers Series WP022023, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    38. Wang, H. & Zhou, P. & Xie, Bai-Chen & Zhang, N., 2019. "Assessing drivers of CO2 emissions in China's electricity sector: A metafrontier production-theoretical decomposition analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 275(3), pages 1096-1107.

  28. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Economic growth and greenhouse gases in Europe: A non-radial multi-sector nonparametric production-frontier analysis," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 51-62.

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    2. Zhao, Hongli & Lin, Boqiang, 2019. "Resources allocation and more efficient use of energy in China's textile industry," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 185(C), pages 111-120.
    3. Zhao, Linlin & Zha, Yong & Zhuang, Yuliang & Liang, Liang, 2019. "Data envelopment analysis for sustainability evaluation in China: Tackling the economic, environmental, and social dimensions," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 275(3), pages 1083-1095.
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    5. Jayanath Ananda & Dong-hyun Oh, 2023. "Assessing environmentally sensitive productivity growth: incorporating externalities and heterogeneity into water sector evaluations," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 59(1), pages 45-60, February.
    6. Walheer, Barnabé & He, Ming, 2020. "Technical efficiency and technology gap of the manufacturing industry in China: Does firm ownership matter?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 127(C).
    7. Song, Yan & Gao, Jian & Zhang, Ming, 2023. "Study on the impact of energy poverty on income inequality at different stages of economic development: Evidence from 77 countries around the world," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 282(C).
    8. Lee, Chien-Chiang & Xing, Wenwu & Lee, Chi-Chuan, 2022. "The impact of energy security on income inequality: The key role of economic development," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 248(C).
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    2. Barnabé Walheer, 2020. "Output, input, and undesirable output interconnections in data envelopment analysis: convexity and returns-to-scale," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 284(1), pages 447-467, January.
    3. Reza Fallahnejad & Mohammad Reza Mozaffari & Peter Fernandes Wanke & Yong Tan, 2024. "Nash Bargaining Game Enhanced Global Malmquist Productivity Index for Cross-Productivity Index," Games, MDPI, vol. 15(1), pages 1-21, January.
    4. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Aggregation of metafrontier technology gap ratios: the case of European sectors in 1995–2015," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 269(3), pages 1013-1026.
    5. Papaioannou, Grammatoula & Podinovski, Victor V., 2024. "A single-stage optimization procedure for data envelopment analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 313(3), pages 1119-1128.
    6. Yu, Ming-Miin, 2020. "Nerlovian profit inefficiency in non-fully-competitive settings: Definition and decomposition," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
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    8. Walheer, Barnabé, 2019. "Aggregating Farrell efficiencies with private and public inputs," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 276(3), pages 1170-1177.
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    11. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Scale efficiency for multi-output cost minimizing producers: The case of the US electricity plants," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 26-36.
    12. Walheer, Barnabe & Hudik, Marek, 2019. "Reallocation of resources in multidivisional firms: A nonparametric approach," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 214(C), pages 196-205.
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    24. Yongjun Li & Xiyang Lei & Alec Morton, 2019. "Performance evaluation of nonhomogeneous hospitals: the case of Hong Kong hospitals," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 22(2), pages 215-228, June.
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    26. Barnabé Walheer, 2018. "Cost Malmquist productivity index: an output-specific approach for group comparison," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 49(1), pages 79-94, February.
    27. Tan, Yong & Walheer, Barnabé, 2024. "Stability and economic performances in the banking industry: The case of China," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 95(C), pages 326-345.

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    7. Walheer, Barnabé, 2019. "Aggregating Farrell efficiencies with private and public inputs," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 276(3), pages 1170-1177.
    8. Afsharian, Mohsen & Ahn, Heinz & Harms, Sören Guntram, 2019. "Performance comparison of management groups under centralised management," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 278(3), pages 845-854.
    9. Walheer, Barnabe & Hudik, Marek, 2019. "Reallocation of resources in multidivisional firms: A nonparametric approach," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 214(C), pages 196-205.
    10. Walheer, Barnabé, 2019. "Malmquist productivity index for multi-output producers: An application to electricity generation plants," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 76-88.
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    8. Anton Nugent & Dragana Radicic, 2023. "The Impact of Environmental Management on Labour Productivity," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(16), pages 1-16, August.
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    15. Song, Yan & Gao, Jian & Zhang, Ming, 2023. "Study on the impact of energy poverty on income inequality at different stages of economic development: Evidence from 77 countries around the world," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 282(C).
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    3. Eder, Andreas & Koller, Wolfgang & Mahlberg, Bernhard, 2024. "Industrial robots and employment change in manufacturing: A combination of index and production-theoretical decomposition analysis," MPRA Paper 121128, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    22. Walheer, Barnabé, 2019. "Malmquist productivity index for multi-output producers: An application to electricity generation plants," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 76-88.
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  34. Barnabé Walheer, 2016. "Multi-Sector Nonparametric Production-Frontier Analysis of the Economic Growth and the Convergence of the European Countries," Pacific Economic Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 21(4), pages 498-524, October.

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    1. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Disaggregation of the cost Malmquist productivity index with joint and output-specific inputs," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 1-12.
    2. Barnabé Walheer, 2020. "Output, input, and undesirable output interconnections in data envelopment analysis: convexity and returns-to-scale," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 284(1), pages 447-467, January.
    3. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Aggregation of metafrontier technology gap ratios: the case of European sectors in 1995–2015," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 269(3), pages 1013-1026.
    4. Barnabé Walheer, 2019. "Disaggregation for efficiency analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 51(2), pages 137-151, June.
    5. Walheer, Barnabe & Hudik, Marek, 2019. "Reallocation of resources in multidivisional firms: A nonparametric approach," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 214(C), pages 196-205.
    6. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Economic growth and greenhouse gases in Europe: A non-radial multi-sector nonparametric production-frontier analysis," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 51-62.
    7. Walheer, Barnabé, 2019. "Malmquist productivity index for multi-output producers: An application to electricity generation plants," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 76-88.
    8. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Labour productivity growth and energy in Europe: A production-frontier approach," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 152(C), pages 129-143.
    9. Barnabé Walheer, 2019. "Scale, congestion, and technical efficiency of European countries: a sector-based nonparametric approach," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 56(6), pages 2025-2078, June.
    10. Walheer, Barnabé & Zhang, Linjia, 2018. "Profit Luenberger and Malmquist-Luenberger indexes for multi-activity decision making units: the case of the star-rated hotel industry in China," RIEI Working Papers 2018-06, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Research Institute for Economic Integration.
    11. Walheer, Barnabé & He, Ming, 2020. "Technical efficiency and technology gap of the manufacturing industry in China: Does firm ownership matter?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 127(C).
    12. Shengqin Wu & Degang Yang & Fuqiang Xia & Xinhuan Zhang & Jinwei Huo & Tianyi Cai & Jing Sun, 2022. "The Effect of Labor Reallocation and Economic Growth in China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(7), pages 1-22, April.
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