Benchmarking the benchmarks -- comparing the accuracy of data envelopment analysis models in constant returns to scale settings

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2020.02.031MaRDI QIDQ2184064zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Sebastian Kohl, Jens O. Brunner

Publication date 27 May 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.02.031

zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlo experimentsdata envelopment analysisartificial data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38)

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