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Behavioral DEA model in evaluating the regional carrying states in China

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In this paper, we have proposed a behavioral DEA model to evaluate Chinese provincial carrying states. To introduce the behavioral DEA model, we take the individual decision maker’s preference into account, including fairness concern, reference dependence and loss aversion. By considering those decision preferences, the proposed models can help to make fair planning with accounting for decision maker’s utilities. Our proposed model provides the detailed technique to demonstrate the fairness concern, reference dependence and loss aversion quantificationally. An empirical study in evaluating Chinese provincial carrying states is used to demonstrate our methods. We also provide comparative analysis and correlation analysis to discuss the results and point out the managerial implications of this study.

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Acknowledgements

This research work has been supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 71631006 and 71771071).

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  1. School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, People’s Republic of China

    Dongwei Yang

  2. School of Economics, Hefei University of Technology, No. 193 Tunxi Road, Hefei, 230009, Anhui Province, People’s Republic of China

    Qiong Xia

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Table 9 Chinese provincial economical carrying ability by BCC model
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Table 10 Chinese provincial ecological carrying ability by BCC model
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Table 11 Chinese provincial environmental carrying ability by BCC model
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Table 12 Chinese provincial energy carrying ability by BCC model
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Yang, D., Xia, Q. Behavioral DEA model in evaluating the regional carrying states in China. Ann Oper Res 268, 315–331 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-018-2785-3

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