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Measuring the efficiency of decision making units

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A nonlinear (nonconvex) programming model provides a new definition of efficiency for use in evaluating activities of not-for-profit entities participating in public programs and methods for objectively determining weights by reference to the observational data for the multiple outputs and multiple inputs that characterize such programs.
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This article is published in European Journal of Operational Research.The article was published on 1978-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 25433 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Programming paradigm & Data envelopment analysis.

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On rank reversal in decision analysis

TL;DR: The fact that the rank reversal phenomenon occurs not only in the AHP but also in many other decision making approaches such as the Borda-Kendall method for aggregating ordinal preferences, the simple additive weighting method, the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method, and the cross-efficiency evaluation method in data envelopment analysis (DEA).
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Stochastic frontier estimation of a CES cost function: the case of higher education in Britain

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derived and maximised the likelihood function associated with this problem, and hence construct measures of economies of scale and scope which obtain in British higher education, using the half-normal residuals generated by the stochastic frontier estimation to construct the measures of technical efficiency for each university in their sample.
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Income Distribution Determinants and Public Spending Efficiency

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of public spending on income distribution in OECD countries, paying attention to the impact on the quality of education and public institutions, by using Data Envelopment Analysis.
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Japanese-airport benchmarking with the dea and endogenous-weight tfp methods: testing the criticism of overinvestment in japanese regional airports

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employed two distinct methods, namely data-envelopment analysis and endogenous-weight TFP, to measure the efficiency of Japanese airports and conduct comparative analysis.
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Deregulation and environmental differentiation in the electric utility industry

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze how economic deregulation impacts firm strategies and environmental quality in the electric utility industry and find evidence that deregulation introduced to this historically staid industry has stimulated environmental differentiation.
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The Measurement of Productive Efficiency

M. J. Farrell
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Theory of cost and production functions

TL;DR: In this article, a unified treatment of cost and production functions underlie the economic theory of production is presented, and the duality between cost function and production function is developed by introducing a cost correspondence, showing that these two functions are given in terms of each other by dual minimum problems.
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General competitive analysis

TL;DR: General competitive analysis, General competitive analysis as mentioned in this paper, General Competitive Analysis (GCA), general competitive analysis (GCA), GCA, GCA(GCA), GCA
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Cost and production functions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a mathematical interpretation of the duality between cost and production function, and present a heuristic principle of minimum costs and a Cobb-Douglas production function.
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