Richard H. Silkman

TL;DR: This paper pointed out serious shortcomings in DEA's treatment of price efficiency, illustrates the dangers of misspecification errors in DEA, and suggests extentions of the basic DEA formulation that address these shortcomings.

TL;DR: This study applied the methodology of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the set of VA medical centers to evaluate their relative managerial efficiencies and revealed that VAMCs affiliated with a university were generally less efficient than those without such an affiliation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how to compute offsets related to the historical performance of the utility itself in the typical PCF, and show that the price cap formulas that are employed often do not include firm-specific productivity or efficiency differentials.

TL;DR: A new procedure for removing the influence of site characteristics is presented, which is a vital step in performing efficiency analysis when DMUs operate under significantly different conditions.

TL;DR: A model for assessing quality-cost tradeoffs as they arise in nurse staffing and task assignment decisions commonly faced by nursing home administrators and industry regulators is developed.