Efficiency, Conflicting Goals and Trade-Offs: A Nonparametric Analysis of the Water and Wastewater Service Industry in Italy
This paper presents a benchmarking study of the water and wastewater industry in Italy. A three-stage modeling approach was implemented to measure the efficiency of 53 utility operators. This approach is based on the implementation of network and conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) to model...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2018-03-01
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| Series: | Sustainability |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/4/919 |