Nonparametric measures of scale economies and capacity utilization: an application to U.S. manufacturing

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2015.03.024zbMath1346.91168OpenAlexW2157165923MaRDI QIDQ319643

Subhash C. Ray

Publication date: 6 October 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://media.economics.uconn.edu/working/2013-09.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

data envelopment analysisefficient outputmost productive scale size

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Economic models of real-world systems (e.g., electricity markets, etc.) (91B74) Special types of economic markets (including Cournot, Bertrand) (91B54)

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• Sensitivity Analysis of Efficiency Scores: How to Bootstrap in Nonparametric Frontier Models
• Some Theoretical Issues in the Measurement of Capacity
• Measuring Plant Capacity, Utilization and Technical Change: A Nonparametric Approach
• Impacts of random noise and specification on estimates of capacity derived from data envelopment analysis

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