Data Envelopment Analysis
Data Envelopment Analysis
Using the neo-classical theory of production economics as the analytical framework, this book, first published in 2004, 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 developed as nonparametric alternatives to the econometric models. Apart from the standard fare consisting of the basic input- and output-oriented DEA models formulated by Charnes, Cooper, and Rhodes, and Banker, Charnes, and Cooper, the book covers developments such as the directional distance function, free disposal hull (FDH) analysis, non-radial measures of efficiency, multiplier bounds, mergers and break-up of firms, and measurement of productivity change through the Malmquist total factor productivity index. The chapter on efficiency measurement using market prices provides the critical link between DEA and the neo-classical theory of a competitive firm. The book also covers several forms of stochastic DEA in detail.
- Provides a rigorous yet easily understandable exposition of various models of data envelopment analysis, tying them to basic production theory and firm behavior in neo-classical economic theory
- Comprehensive coverage includes recent advances in the DEA methodology within a unified framework
- Simple numerical examples to facilitate exposition of the underlying economic problems and numerous extended examples from published empirical research
Product details
July 2012Paperback
9781107405264
366 pages
229 × 152 × 19 mm
0.49kg
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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. Non-radial 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 break up of firms
- 9. Efficiency analysis with market prices
- 10. Nonparametric approaches to production analysis
- 11. Measuring total factor productivity change over time
- 12. Stochastic approaches to data envelopment analysis
- 13. Looking ahead.
