Author : Rolf Färe,Shawna Grosskopf,Dimitris Margaritis
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814644563
Advances in Data Envelopment Analysis by Rolf Färe,Shawna Grosskopf,Dimitris Margaritis Pdf
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is often overlooked in empirical work such as diagnostic tests to determine whether the data conform with technology which, in turn, is important in identifying technical change, or finding which types of DEA models allow data transformations, including dealing with ordinal data. Advances in Data Envelopment Analysis focuses on both theoretical developments and their applications into the measurement of productive efficiency and productivity growth, such as its application to the modelling of time substitution, i.e. the problem of how to allocate resources over time, and estimating the "value" of a Decision Making Unit (DMU). Contents:AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction:The DEA Technology and Its Representation(Axiomatic) Properties of the DEA ModelAppendixLooking at the Data in DEA:Data DiagnosticsTechnical ChangeData TranslationAppendix: Distance FunctionsDEA and Intensity Variables:On Shephard's Duality TheoryAdjoint Transformations in DEAThe Diet ProblemPricing Decision Making UnitsDEA and Directional Distance Functions:Directional VectorsAggregation and Directional VectorsEndogenizing the Directional VectorAppendixDEA and Time Substitution:Theoretical UnderpinningReassessing the EU Stability and Growth PactMethodSome Limitations of Two DEA Models:The Non-Archimedean and DEASuper-Efficiency and ZerosReferences Readership: Advanced postgraduate students and researchers in operations research and economics with a particular interest in production theory and operations management. Keywords:Optimization Techniques;Multifactor Productivity;Intertemporal Firm Choice;Technological Change: Choices and Consequences;Diffusion Processes;Data Envelopment Analysis;Operations Research