Evaluating eco-efficiency with data envelopment analysis : an analytical reexamination

• Main Author: Chen, Chien-Ming
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Business::Operations management
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104126; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19441
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper reexamines the unintended consequences of the two widely cited models for measuring environmental efficiency—the hyperbolic efficiency model (HEM) and directional distance function (DDF). I prove the existence of three main problems: (1) these two models are not monotonic in undesirable o...