Efficiency Measurement Using Nonparametric Production Analysis in the Presence of Undesirable Outputs : Application to Power Plants

In order to deal with undesirable products in models of performance analysis, we need to replace the assumption of free disposability by weak disposability and this assumption has been used to model undesirable products as outputs. The traditional axiom of weak disposability of Shephard (1970) is gi...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alireza Amirteimoori, Mina Fouladvand, Sohrab Kordrostami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wrocław University of Science and Technology 2017-01-01
Series:Operations Research and Decisions
Online Access:http://orduser.pwr.wroc.pl/DownloadFile.aspx?aid=1309