Subhash C. Ray

Data Envelopment Analysis

Theory and Techniques for Economics and Operations Research

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Produktbeschreibung

Short description/annotation
This book explores data envelopment analysis, which measures firms' input-output efficiencies using mathematical programming techniques.

Main description
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 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 more recent 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.

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780521802567
• ISBN-10: 0521802563
• Artikelnr.: 21291489

Inhaltsangabe

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.