Measuring Energy use Efficiency in Presence of Undesirable Output: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to Indian Cement Industry

Dr. Sabuj Kumar Mandal completed his B.Sc (Economics) from Scottish Church College, Kolkata and M.Sc (Economics with specialization in Statistics and Econometrics) from University of Calcutta in 2002 and 2004 respectively. He has completed his doctoral research from Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore and in 2010 University of Mysore awarded him Ph.D in economics for his thesis entitled “Energy and Productivity Growth: A Study of Indian Cement Industry”. His teaching and research interests lie in a variety of areas like, Microeconomics, Industrial Economics, Applied Game Theory, Behavioral Economics, Applied Econometrics and Energy & Environmental Economics. He is enthusiastic in applying Stochastic Frontier Models and Data Envelopment Analysis for performance analysis and benchmarking.