改进的公共权重的区间DEA效率评价

提出了一种改进的公共权重的考虑非期望产出的区间数据包络模型(DEA)评价模型.通过Pearson相关性检验,VIF检验法和容忍度检验法对投入,期望产出和非期望产出指标进行约简,并计算出指标的客观权重,引入调和参数使客观权重满足DEA模型限制条件且存在最优解.该模型有效解决了传统DEA模型中可能发生的公共权重分配为零的情况发生,同时考虑了指标负面评价的情况,增加评价结果的区分度.对中国北方十个省份的矿业环境治理效率进行了实证分析,构建了矿山生态环境治理效率评价体系,与相关文献进行比较,表明该模型的有效性且可以有效降低计算复杂度,提高计算效率.     

具有非期望产出的随机DEA模型研究

为解决含有不确定信息的非期望产出效率评价问题,建立了一个非期望产出的随机DEA模型.该模型将非期望产出作为负期望产出进行处理,引入了期望效率值、显著性水平来刻画随机问题,并通过机会约束规划的相关知识将模型转化为确定形式.对模型的最优值的相关性质进行了探讨,说明最优值与期望效率值、显著性水平之间的关系.最后给出数值实验说明该模型的有效性.     

考虑非期望产出的我国对外开放机场生产效率评估北大核心

针对已有对机场生产效率评估中忽视非期望产出这一问题,研究构建了非期望产出模型SBM-Undesirable,选择我国对外开放机场为研究对象,对其机场生产效率进行评估,并在此基础上对对外开放机场投入产出要素进行定量调整.研究结果表明:在机场生产运营过程中存在非期望产出的情况下,采用SBM-Undesirable模型对其进行效率评价,能够避免传统DEA模型的缺陷,提高效率评价的准确性.通过模型分析发现我国62个对外开放机场中有18个机场生产效率有效,而采用传统CCR模型进行机场生产效率评估时,只有12个机场生产效率有效,说明非期望产出对外开放机场生产效率有显著的影响;我国对外开放机场的生产效率有显著的区域特征,我国区域对外开放机场生产效率得分排序为华中、西南、西北、华南、华东、华北、东北;通过对我国生产效率无效的对外开放机场分析,发现各个对外开放机场普遍存在投入冗余、效益产出不足和非期望产出过多的情况,优化投入产出配置能力、减少机场投诉数量等非期望产出和增加机场有效产出是改善机场生产效率的现实途径.     

考虑非期望产出的我国对外开放机场生产效率评估

针对已有对机场生产效率评估中忽视非期望产出这一问题,研究构建了非期望产出模型SBM-Undesirable,选择我国对外开放机场为研究对象,对其机场生产效率进行评估,并在此基础上对对外开放机场投入产出要素进行定量调整.研究结果表明:在机场生产运营过程中存在非期望产出的情况下,采用SBM-Undesirable模型对其进行效率评价,能够避免传统DEA模型的缺陷,提高效率评价的准确性.通过模型分析发现我国62个对外开放机场中有18个机场生产效率有效,而采用传统CCR模型进行机场生产效率评估时,只有12个机场生产效率有效,说明非期望产出对外开放机场生产效率有显著的影响;我国对外开放机场的生产效率有显著的区域特征,我国区域对外开放机场生产效率得分排序为华中、西南、西北、华南、华东、华北、东北;通过对我国生产效率无效的对外开放机场分析,发现各个对外开放机场普遍存在投入冗余、效益产出不足和非期望产出过多的情况,优化投入产出配置能力、减少机场投诉数量等非期望产出和增加机场有效产出是改善机场生产效率的现实途径.     

具有偏好锥的链式网络DEA模型

对链式网络DEA模型进行推广,将"偏好锥"引入网络DEA模型.针对中间产出重要性以及决策者评价时的偏好,建立带有产出锥和投入锥相应的两阶段生产可能集,对具有"偏好锥"的链式网络DEA模型,证明了决策单元为网络DEA有效的充要条件,给出了网络DEA有效性与各阶段弱DEA有效性的关系.另外,文章结合具体算例说明了偏好锥的变化对效率评价的影响.关于两阶段的模型以及相关结论可以推广到多阶段网络结构.     

具有非期望产出的混联网络DEA模型

数据包络分析(DEA)是评价系统相对有效性的分析方法,网络DEA模型在评价企业的经济效益、管理效益等实际问题中有着广泛的应用.在网络DEA模型的基础上考虑非期望产出要素,提出了具有非期望产出的混联网络DEA模型.研究了新模型的系统弱DEA有效与各子阶段弱DEA有效之间的关系,找到了无效决策单元的无效阶段,通过有针对性的改进能够提高系统的整体效率.最后通过数值算例验证了模型的可行性.     

基于SBM-NS模型的环境效率评价

给出一种处理非期望产出的环境效率评价模型,一方面解决了投入松弛性的问题,另一方面也解决了非期望产出存在下的效率评价问题,且模型能够避免量纲不同和角度选择的差异带来的偏差和影响.最后通过实证说明模型的有效性.     

广义超效率区间DEA模型及其有效性研究

根据样本单元的区间投入、区间产出定义最大样本生产可能集,建立基于最大样本生产可能集的广义超效率区间DEA模型,然后定义了待评价决策单元基于广义超效率区间DEA模型的超效率区间,并讨论了待评价决策单元的有效性,最后通过实例表明了广义超效率区间DEA模型的实用性.     

只有产出(投入)BC~2模型中决策单元效率的几何刻画

在DEA方法中,DEA有效和弱DEA有效的决策单元位于生产前沿面上,非弱DEA有效的DEA无效决策单元位于生产可能集的内部而非生产前沿面上.通过引入生产可能集与生产前沿面移动的思想,证明只有产出(投入)的BC²模型评价下的决策单元的最优值与相应的生产前沿面的移动值存在倒数关系,以双产出(投入)情形图示说明,明确了决策单元在生产可能集中所处的位置.     

考虑投入和产出指标偏好的广义DEA模型

广义DEA是一种基于决策单元和非决策单元自由选择参考集的扩展DEA模型.传统DEA模型的最优解大多是由线性规划随机计算的,未能充分考虑投入和产出指标的重要程度.将投入和产出指标的决策者偏好引入到广义DEA模型约束条件中,首先定义投入和产出指标偏好矩阵,再将该矩阵纳入广义DEA模型的约束条件,构建了带投入和产出指标偏好的广义DEA模型(GDEA-IP).接下来给出决策单元GDEA-IP有效性与评价指标的量纲选择无关性的证明,以及决策单元为GDEA-IP弱有效和有效的理论证明.算例分析说明GDEA-IP模型的有效性,通过和其它经典模型的对比分析,进一步说明该模型比广义DEA模型具有更大的灵活性和通用性,拓展了DEA方法的理论研究.     

A new approach in modelling undesirable output in DEA model

With an increasing attention on the environment, one of the major research thrusts in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) based performance evaluation is the undesirable output in the conventional DEA model. There is considerable research published on the undesirable aspects of production outputs. However, the economic implications and the suitability of the DEA models for incorporating the undesirable outputs are less carefully investigated and discussed. In this paper, a comparative study is conducted of typical eco-DEA models to illustrate this issue. We propose a ratio model to evaluate the undesirable as well as the desirable outputs simultaneously. We apply the specially developed model to investigate the impact of production pollutants while conducting the efficiency evaluation in the textile industry of China. The results reveal that the production output-oriented efficiency evaluation can be significantly altered once the environmental aspects are factored into the model.     

An epsilon-based measure of efficiency in DEA – A third pole of technical efficiency

In DEA, we have two measures of technical efficiency with different characteristics: radial and non-radial. In this paper we compile them into a composite model called “epsilon-based measure (EBM).” For this purpose we introduce two parameters which connect radial and non-radial models. These two parameters are obtained from the newly defined affinity index between inputs or outputs along with principal component analysis on the affinity matrix. Thus, EBM takes into account diversity of input/output data and their relative importance for measuring technical efficiency.     

基于CAR-DEA方法的环境效率评价研究

现有环境效率评价的DEA方法没有考虑多维偏好约束问题,即不同决策单元对不同期望产出和不期望产出的偏好不同. 以地区为例,不同地区对GDP、废水和废气赋予的权重偏好各不相同. 在这种情况下,由于各决策单元的偏好约束不同,形成多维偏好约束集,在传统DEA模型中容易出现无可行解现象. 针对这一问题,基于CAR-DEA方法,结合保证域理论,提出一种解决多维偏好约束集问题的环境效率评价模型. 采用中国工业系统的环境效率评价实例对提出的方法进行了分析和说明.     

Measurement of Returns to Scale and Damages to Scale for DEA-based operational and environmental assessment: How to manage desirable (good) and undesirable (bad) outputs?

Environmental assessment is increasingly important in preventing various types of pollutions. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been long used as an operational performance measure, but we have insufficiently explored the use of DEA for environmental assessment. This study explores a new use of DEA for the environmental assessment in which outputs are classified into desirable (good) and undesirable (bad) outputs. Such an output separation is important in the DEA-based environmental assessment. This study extends the use of DEA to the measurement of both Returns to Scale (RTS) for desirable outputs and Damages to Scale (DTS) for undesirable outputs. A Range-Adjusted Measure (RAM) is used as a DEA model for this study because the non-radial model can easily combine the two types of outputs in a unified treatment. All the mathematical features regarding the RAM-based RTS/DTS measurement are first discussed from the operational and environmental performance in a separate treatment. Then, this study combines the two performance measures as a unified measure. The RAM-based RTS/DTS is mathematically explored from the unified measure for operational and environmental performance.     

Estimating the technical efficiency of health care systems: A cross-country comparison using the directional distance function

Economic activity produces not only desirable outputs but also undesirable outputs. Undesirable outputs are usually omitted from efficiency assessments (i.e., applications of Data Envelopment Analysis) which fail to express the true production process. The directional distance function model has been used for handling asymmetrically both desirable and undesirable outputs in the assessment process. In the present paper, we apply a generalized directional distance function to measure the efficiency of the health systems of 171 countries. We incorporate both desirable and undesirable outputs into the efficiency assessment without transforming the latter type of outputs into inputs or into their inverse form, as is done in most of the extant studies that deal with the measurement of health efficiency. The methodology that we apply introduces a modified definition of the efficiency score which yields results consistent with those obtained from radial DEA models. In addition, our results are independent of the length of the direction vector.     

Data envelopment analysis for environmental assessment: Comparison between public and private ownership in petroleum industry

Environmental assessment recently becomes a major policy issue in the world. This study discusses how to apply Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for environmental assessment. An important feature of the DEA environmental assessment is that it needs to classify outputs into desirable (good) and undesirable (bad) outputs because private and public entities often produce not only desirable outputs but also undesirable outputs as a result of their production activities. This study proposes the three types of unification for DEA environmental assessment by using non-radial DEA models. The first unification considers both an increase and a decrease in the input vector along with a decrease in the direction vector of undesirable outputs. This type of unification measures “unified efficiency”. The second unification considers a decrease in an input vector along with a decrease in the vector of undesirable outputs. This type of unification is referred to as “natural disposability” and measures “unified efficiency under natural disposability”. The third unification considers an increase in an input vector but a decrease in the vector of undesirable outputs. This type of unification is referred to as “managerial disposability” and measures “unified efficiency under managerial disposability”. All the unifications increase the vector of desirable outputs. To document their practical implications, this study has applied the proposed approach to compare the performance of national oil firms with that of international oil firms. This study identifies two important findings on the petroleum industry. One of the two findings is that national oil companies under public ownership outperform international oil companies under private ownership in terms of unified (operational and environmental) efficiency and unified efficiency under natural disposability. However, the performance of international oil companies exhibits an increasing trend in unified efficiency. The other finding is that national oil companies need to satisfy the environmental standard of its own country while international oil companies need to satisfy the international standard that is more restricted than the national standards. As a consequence, international oil companies outperform national oil companies in terms of unified efficiency under managerial disposability.     

Radial DEA models without inputs or without outputs

In this paper we consider radial DEA models without inputs (or without outputs), and radial DEA models with a single constant input (or with a single constant output). We demonstrate that (i) a CCR model without inputs (or without outputs) is meaningless; (ii) a CCR model with a single constant input (or with a single constant output) coincides with the corresponding BCC model; (iii) a BCC model with a single constant input (or a single constant output) collapses to a BCC model without inputs (or without outputs); and (iv) all BCC models, including those without inputs (or without outputs), can be condensed to models having one less variable (the radial efficiency score) and one less constraint (the convexity constraint).     

Bridging radial and non-radial measures of efficiency in DEA

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been utilized worldwide for measuring efficiencies of banks, telecommunications, electric utilities and so forth. Yet, the existing models have some well-known shortcomings that limit their usefulness. In DEA we have two fundamental approaches to measuring efficiency with very different characteristics; radial and non-radial. We demonstrate a method for linking these two approaches in a unified framework called Connected-SBM (slacks-based measure). It includes two scalar parameters, and by changing the parameter values we can relocate the analysis anywhere between the radial and the non-radial models. An appropriate choice of these parameters can overcome the key shortcomings inherent in the two approaches, namely, proportionality and mixed patterns of slacks.     

A non-radial DEA approach to measuring environmental performance

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has gained great popularity in environmental performance measurement because it can provide a synthetic standardized environmental performance index when pollutants are suitably incorporated into the traditional DEA framework. Past studies about the application of DEA to environmental performance measurement often follow the concept of radial efficiency measures. In this paper, we present a non-radial DEA approach to measuring environmental performance, which consists of a non-radial DEA-based model for multilateral environmental performance comparisons and a non-radial Malmquist environmental performance index for modeling the change of environmental performance over time. A case study of OECD countries using the proposed non-radial DEA approach is also presented. It is found that the environmental performance of OECD countries as a whole has been improved from 1995 to 1997.     

不同环保意识视角下的DEA效率模型

DEA在效率分析领域具有良好的应用,随着全球气候的不断恶劣和环境的逐渐破坏,公众环保意识不断增强,在进行相关效率研究时,非期望产出越来越受到重视。以非期望产出为主要研究点,根据社会对非期望产出指标的认识规律将环保意识分为五个不同阶段,并综合考虑每个意识阶段的特征,将环境指标变动能力,环境承载能力、环境负外部性参与度、外部环境政策管理及企业生产要求纳入DEA效率分析过程中,通过对目标函数和约束条件进行不同的改进和约束,构建了不同意识阶段的DEA效率分析模型,并探讨了各阶段模型的使用范围和相互关系。最后,选取一个实例进行试算,证明各DEA模型的可行性和有效性。