Waste Performance of NUTS 2-regions in the EU: A Conditional Directional Distance Benefit-of-the-Doubt Model

Why are some Spanish regions more resilient than others?

“…This implies that the composite resilience index combines the information from the two variables in a manner which is in the best interests of the region, and the resulting weightings are independent of any subjective decisions on the part of the researcher (Giambona & Vassallo, ). The aggregate resilience score would worsen under any other weighting scheme (Rogge, De Jaeger, & Lavigne, ). The BoD technique also provides a means to standardize the data, by ranking the regions from zero to one, according to their degree of resilience.…”

Spatial directional robust Benefit of the Doubt approach in presence of undesirable output: An application to Italian waste sector

“…In particular, De Jaeger and Rogge (2014) showed that despite the substantial cooperation Belgian between municipalities, considerable differences in municipality performance in household packaging waste collection exist. Rogge et al (2017) reveal considerable differences in the MSW performance of the NUTS 2-regions, even within Member States. Our paper fits within the second group of studies that use the BoD-model in that we advocate a new extension to the BoD-model to measure and evaluate the MSW performance of the Italian municipalities.…”

“…The viewpoint taken by the BoD-model is that each public authority is represented by a "helmsman" that pursues multiple policy objectives, corresponding to the different performance indicators (see, among others, Lovell et al, 1995 andCherchye et al, 2007 for more on the helmsman interpretation). Both studies (De Jaeger and Rogge, 2014 andRogge et al, 2017) demonstrated considerable variation in the performance of the involved public authorities. In particular, De Jaeger and Rogge (2014) showed that despite the substantial cooperation Belgian between municipalities, considerable differences in municipality performance in household packaging waste collection exist.…”

“…For Flanders (Belgium), De Jaeger et al (2011) found that the cost advantages (relative shorter distance between waste pick-up points) and disadvantages (e.g., congestion) of operating in densely populated areas more or less balance each other. An insignificant relation between population density and the regional performance, in MSW collection and processing for the NUTS 2-regions in the EU, was found by Rogge et al (2017). Empirical evidence on the relationship between per capita income and respectively MSW generation and efficiency in MSW collection and processing is also mixed.…”

“…To measure the performance in MSW treatment and collection performances of public authorities, few recent papers employed an adjusted version of the DEAmodel, the so-called Benefit-of-the-Doubt (BoD) method introduced by Melyn and Moesen (1991) and popularized by Cherchye et al (2007), to construct composite performance measures. Examples include De Jaeger and Rogge (2014) for the household packaging waste collection of Belgian municipal waste joint ventures and Rogge et al (2017) for benchmarking the MSW management performance of the NUTS 2-regions in the EU. In essence, the BoD-method is a version of the DEA-model in a "pure output setting" in the sense that it only looks at "achievements" (i.e., outputs) without taking into account the input side.…”