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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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Predicting bank performance with financial forecasts: A case of Taiwan commercial banks

TL;DR: In this paper, a DEA model for interval data is formulated to predict the efficiency of 24 commercial banks in Taiwan based on their financial forecasts, and the predictions of the efficiency scores are also presented as ranges.
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Ranking of units on the DEA frontier with common weights

TL;DR: This research proposes a methodology to determine one common set of weights for the performance indices of only DEA efficient DMUs, and these DMUs are ranked according to the efficiency score weighted by the commonSet of weights.
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Benchmarking marketing productivity using data envelopment analysis

TL;DR: A rigorous quantitative approach to benchmarking marketing productivity is suggested and data envelopment analysis (DEA) is suggested to aid traditional benchmarking activities and to provide guidance to managers.
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A Note on Banking Efficiency in Portugal, New vs. Old Banks

TL;DR: The case of Portugal provides unique information on the joint effect of deregulation and the granting of new banking licenses on the change in operational efficiency of a previously repressed banking system as discussed by the authors.
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Distribution of cost and profit efficiency: Evidence from Indian banking

TL;DR: The study finds strong evidence of ownership explaining the efficiency differential of banks, and bank size and product-mix are also found to be important, although to a lesser extent.
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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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