A note on returns to scale in DEA

DOI10.1016/0377-2217(94)00281-9zbMath0911.90040OpenAlexW2019582386MaRDI QIDQ1266635

Rajiv D. Banker, William W. Cooper, Indranil R. Bardhan

Publication date: 7 October 1998

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0377-2217(94)00281-9

zbMATH Keywords

data envelopment analysisDEAreturns to scalefrontier projection operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Applications of mathematical programming (90C90) Linear programming (90C05) Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38)

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