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Data envelopment analysis : theory and techniques for economics and operations research /

Using the neo-classical theory of production economics as the analytical framework, this book provides a unified and easily comprehensible, yet fairly rigorous, exposition of the core literature on data envelopment analysis (DEA) for readers based in different disciplines. The various DEA models are...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ray, Subhash C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction and overview
  • 2. Productivity, efficiency, and data envelopment analysis
  • 3. Variable returns to scale : separating technical and scale efficiencies
  • 4. Extensions to the basic DEA models
  • 5. Nonradial models and Pareto-Koopmans measures of technical efficiency
  • 6. Efficiency measurement without convexity assumption : free disposal hull analysis
  • 7. Dealing with slacks : assurance region/cone ratio analysis, weak disposability, and congestion
  • 8. Efficiency of merger and breakup of firms
  • 9. Efficiency analysis with market prices
  • 10. Nonparametric approaches in production economics
  • 11. Measuring total productivity change over time
  • 12. Stochastic approaches to data envelopment analysis.