Scale characterizations in a DEA directional technology distance function framework

DOI10.1016/S0377-2217(01)00389-7MaRDI QIDQ1869693zbMATHFDO

Authors Hirofumi Fukuyama

Publication date 28 April 2003

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

zbMATH Keywords

returns to scalescale elasticityData envelopment analysisMPSSdirectional technology distance functionscale efficiency indicator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Sensitivity, stability, parametric optimization (90C31) Special problems of linear programming (transportation, multi-index, data envelopment analysis, etc.) (90C08)

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• \(\alpha \)-returns to scale and multi-output production technologies
• Translation efficiency and directionally optimal scale
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• A full-scale investigation of the directional returns to scale in data envelopment analysis
• Statistical inference for DEA estimators of directional distances
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• Estimating directional returns to scale in DEA
• Assessing eco-efficiency with directional distance functions
• Decomposing technical efficiency and scale elasticity in two-stage network DEA
• Hyperbolic efficiency measurement: a conic programming approach

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