Cultural economy analysis in the space of Gilan province

Culture is an important pillar of the society that through ensuring effectiveness in economic sense brings about effective developments in the society The purpose of present study is to compare the relative efficiency of Counties of Gilan and identify the efficient Counties, in terms Cultural development and productivity. Applied-analytical method was used and statistical population includes Counties of Gilan. Data Envelopment Analysis model is used to determine the efficiency ratio of DMUs and to distinguish efficient and inefficient DMUs. For the units that are identified as efficient by CCR-I model, Anderson–Pearson (AP) was used. For analyzing data, LINGO and DEAP software was used. Findings showed that 8 Counties (in CCR-I) and 11 Counties (in BCC-I) have been efficient. Final ranking is as follows (in efficient Counties in the CCR-I): Rasht> Lahijan> Astara> Amlash> Talesh> Rezvanshahr> Roodbar> Bandar-e Anzali
Finally, virtual DMUs were introduced as a pattern for inefficient DMUs. Inefficient DMUs will achieve efficiency if they can be promoted to achieve the conditions of their similar virtual DMUs.