“…In this paper, we propose a new approach to modelling undesirable outputs, based on the zero sum gains DEA models (ZSG-DEA). These models consider the production dependence among the DMUs (Gomes, 2003;Gomes et al, 2003Gomes et al, , 2005Lins et al, 2003), including, as an additional restriction, the zero sum game property, in which whatever lost (or gained) by one of the players must be gained (or lost) by the others, that is the net sum of gains must be zero.…”