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(2024). Distinguishing useful and wasteful slack. Operations Research.

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(2023). A DEA-based approach to customer value analysis. European Journal of Operational Research.

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(2021). Efficiency drivers in harvesting operations in mixed Boreal stands: a Norwegian case study. International Journal of Forest Engineering.

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(2020). A superlative indicator for the Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator: Theory and application. European Journal of Operational Research.

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(2019). Data Envelopment Analysis and Social Enterprises: Analysing Performance, Strategic Orientation and Mission Drift. Journal of Business Ethics.

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(2018). Individual welfare analysis for collective households. Journal of Public Economics.

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(2018). Production with storable and durable inputs: nonparametric analysis of intertemporal efficiency. European Journal of Operational Research.

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Work in progress

Working papers:

  1. “Classification of Geological Borehole Descriptions Using a Domain Adapted Large Language Model” (with Hossein Ghorbanfekr, Katrijn Dirix), revision requested by Applied Computing and Geosciences

Work in progress:

  1. “Visualizing mix similarity and scale: identification of group technologies and tracking of frontier firms” (with Mette Asmild)

Projects

Deautils

This repository will host various utilities that one may need when doing Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).

matlabutils

I keep a repository with useful MATLAB utility functions that intend to make MATLAB programming just that more easy.

nepa

Nonparametric Efficiency and Productivity Analysis for Julia. A toolbox for doing efficiency analysis and computing productivity change using nonparametric techniques.

nprlab

NonParametric Regression Laboratory for MATLAB (NPRLab) is a MATLAB toolbox for nonparametric regression. In particular, it implements a variety of linear estimators. Data rescaling and bandwidth tuning is done automatically by the software. Finally, the toolbox also features confidence interval estimation by the volume-of-tube formula both in a one-dimensional and multi-dimensional setting.

Teaching

  • Guest lecturer in the master courses “Contracts and cooperatives” and “Economic efficiency and benchmarking” at the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen during the academic years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019.
  • Daily advisor for 3 individual master thesis students and 1 group of 5 master thesis students at the Department of Economics at KU Leuven.
  • Teaching assistant for the module Seminarie methoden voor economische analyse in the 2nd semester at the Department of Economics at KU Leuven during the academic year 2016-2017.

Contact

  • pieterjan dot kerstens at vito dot be
  • Boeretang 200, 2400 Mol, Belgium