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Measuring and Managing the Productivity of U.S. Public Transit Systems: An Unoriented Network DEA
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In this paper, the authors present an unoriented network DEA methodology that measures a public transit system's performance relative to its peer systems, compares its performance to an appropriate efficient benchmark system, and identifies the sources of its inefficiency.Abstract:
Governments at all levels face budget shortfalls, and consequently public transit systems in the U.S. must compete with other public services for financial support. In order to depend less on public funding, it is critical that public transit systems focus on their operational performance and identify any sources of inefficiency. In this chapter, we present an unoriented network DEA methodology that measures a public transit system’s performance relative to its peer systems, compares its performance to an appropriate efficient benchmark system, and identifies the sources of its inefficiency.read more
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Observing choice of loan methods in not-for-profit microfinance using data envelopment analysis
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Using Data Envelopment Analysis to Measure and Improve Organizational Performance
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Evaluating operation efficiency of public transportation: A three-stage DEA method
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Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data
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Some Models for Estimating Technical and Scale Inefficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis
TL;DR: The CCR ratio form introduced by Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes, as part of their Data Envelopment Analysis approach, comprehends both technical and scale inefficiencies via the optimal value of the ratio form, as obtained directly from the data without requiring a priori specification of weights and/or explicit delineation of assumed functional forms of relations between inputs and outputs as mentioned in this paper.
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A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a theory of competition among pressure groups for political influence, based on the efficiency of each group in producing pressure, the effect of additional pressure on their influence, the number of persons in different groups, and the deadweight cost of taxes and subsidies.
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Using least squares and tobit in second stage DEA efficiency analyses
TL;DR: Examination of second stage DEA efficiency analyses, within the context of a censoring data generating process (DGP) and a fractional data DGP, when efficiency scores are treated as descriptive measures of the relative performance of units in the sample suggests Tobit estimation in this situation is inappropriate.