CONSTRUCTION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE INDEX USING DEA

• Authors: Ewa Chodakowska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

There is wide range of environmental performance indicators. The more sophisticated they are, the more arbitrary viewpoint they take. The EPI weights are established based on experts’ judgments form Yale University and Columbia University team. In the article was analysed the changes in the EPI when the weights had been replaced with the weights determined by Data Envelopment Analysis. DEA determines weights that maximize the performance of each unit with some assumptions. Not for every European country this approach turned out to be the better option.

Keywords

EN

EPI (environmental performance index); DEA (data envelopment analysis)

• Publisher: Katedra Ekonometrii i Statystyki, Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Metody Ilościowe w Badaniach Ekonomicznych
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 296-306

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Ewa Chodakowska

• Faculty of Management Bialystok University of Technology

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