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

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2015.03.024MaRDI QIDQ319643zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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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