Spatial directional robust Benefit of the Doubt approach in presence of undesirable output: An application to Italian waste sector
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Benefit of the Doubt; Composite indicators; Conditional efficiency; Spatial heterogeneity; Directional distance function; Undesirable outputs; Municipal solid waste;All these keywords.
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