Estimation of returns to scale using data envelopment analysis

DOI10.1016/0377-2217(92)90178-CzbMath0760.90001MaRDI QIDQ1203803

Rajiv D. Banker, Robert M. Thrall

Publication date: 18 February 1993

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

data envelopment analysisreturns to scaleboundarymost productive scale sizedual linear programsreturn to scale intervals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Linear programming (90C05) Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38)

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