| Abbreviation | Definition |
| ANNs | Artificial Neural Networks |
| BCC | Banker, Charnes and Cooper |
| CCR | Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes |
| CO2 | Carbon Dioxide |
| DEA | Data Envelopment Analysis |
| DMU | Decision-Making Unit |
| GARCH | Generalized AutoRegressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| LR | Likelihood Ratio |
| LSTM | Long Short-Term Memory |
| MAE | Mean Absolute Error |
| MSE | Mean Square Error |
| R2 | Coefficient of Determination |
| RNN | Recurrent Neural Network |
| SBM | Slack Based Measure |
| SFA | Stochastic Frontier Analysis |
| VAR | Vector Autoregression |