How to properly decompose economic efficiency using technical and allocative criteria with non-homothetic DEA technologies

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2014.08.012zbMath1338.90196OpenAlexW2166396007MaRDI QIDQ300082

Jose L. Zofio, Jesus T. Pastor, Juan Pablo Aparicio

Publication date: 23 June 2016

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

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10486/662570

zbMATH Keywords

data envelopment analysisallocative efficiencytechnical efficiencyhomotheticityoverall efficiency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of mathematical programming (90C90) Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Production models (90B30) Special problems of linear programming (transportation, multi-index, data envelopment analysis, etc.) (90C08)

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