Publication:4826095

Publication date: 9 November 2004

productivity; efficiency; data envelopment analysis; returns to scale; chance-constrained programming; congestion; technical efficiency; nonparametric tests; scale efficiency; assurance region/cone ratio analysis; Banker's \(F\) tests; efficiency of merger and breakup of firm; free disposal hull analysis; Malmquist and Fisher indexes; nonradial models; Pareto-Koopmans measures of technical efficiency; Varian's statistical test

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

90C05: Linear programming

91-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to game theory, economics, and finance

91B38: Production theory, theory of the firm

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