Undesirable Output such as pollution and waste may occasionally occur in the production process, which should be reduced to improve efficiency. In the present study, cost efficiency model is presented in the presence of undesirable output by Inverse Linear Programming, and the desirable cost is calculated in order to achieve cost efficiency for units that are technically efficient but not cost-...

There has been much research on network flows over time due to their important role in real world applications. This has led to many results, but the more challenging continuous time model still lacks some of the key concepts and techniques that are the cornerstones of static network flows. The aim of this paper is to advance the state of the art for dynamic network flows by developing the cont...

The classical approach to static cost analysis is based on first transforming a given program into a set of cost relations, and then solving them into closed-form upper-bounds. The quality of the upper-bounds and the scalability of such cost analysis highly depend on the precision and efficiency of the solving phase. Several techniques for solving cost relations exist, some are efficient but no...

This paper describes the foundations of a market mechanism that was designed to stimulate more efficient provisions of forest ecosystem services to society. The proposed tool is a competitive multi-unit public goods subscription game of incomplete information. A conceptual and mathematical characterization of the game is followed by an illustrative example where Pareto-efficient bundles of timb...

Efficiency analysis of electricity distribution networks is often limited to technical or cost efficiency measures. However, some important non-tradable aspects of their service such as quality of service and network energy losses are generally not part of the analysis. A regulatory concern is that technical efficiency can be achieved at the expense of these measures as well as allocative effic...

Contribution: Qualitative Policy Implications •Simple static model to capture main intuition •Efficiency case for positive subsidies on formal child care •Implementation of the optimal policy as though informal child care were observable Quantitative Exercise •Calibrate an overlapping generations model to the US economy •Optimal benefits vary with child care needs •Optimal average tax rate lowe...

This paper aims to show the effect of macrocellular network densification on the capacity, energy and cost efficiency. The presented results are based on radio propagation simulations that consider macrocellular network with different inter-site distances, i.e. different site densities, and also take into account the presence of indoor receiver points by varying outdoor and indoor receiver dist...

This paper uses both the non-parametric method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the econometric method of Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) to study the production technology and cost efficiency of the U.S. dental care industry using practice level data. The American Dental Association (ADA) 2006 survey data for a number of general dental practices in Colorado are used for the empirical ...