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The book presents recent advances and developments in efficiency evaluation with special emphasis on the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) methods. The DEA method is a non-parametric, deterministic approach with its roots in mathematical programming, whereas the SFA method is stochastic and parametric in nature and closely related to econometric concepts. First, the authors give an introduction to benchmarking, thought of the systematic comparison of the performance of one firm against other firms. Benchmarking includes learning, coordination, and motivation. The next step in the analysis relates to ideal evaluations and to the development of key performance indicators and ratios. An extension of the approach is given by enlarging the models to multiple inputs and multiple outputs. Based on these conceptual issues, the authors discuss the process from effectiveness to efficiency and turn over to the concept of ``best practice or frontier analysis, which concludes the book. With respect to the frontier analysis, one has to distinguish between deterministic and stochastic frontier methods. And each method again can be distinguished by being parametric or non-parametric in nature. The book is addressed to graduate students, advanced consultants and practitioners with an interest in quantitative performance evaluation. Although the topics covered in the book are overwhelmingly mathematical in nature, the authors abstain from formal proof in the main text part. Proof are either given in appendices or, alternatively, references are given were the respective proof can be found in the literature. Furthermore, throughout the book, the authors present and discuss numerous applications to demonstrate the applicability and usefulness of the DEA and SFA methods. In the appendix the authors give a brief introduction to the programming software \texttt{R} and they give some information how to install the software on a PC. \texttt{R} is freeware and can be downloaded by everyone who is interested in this programming language.
- Benchmarking within a DEA framework: setting the closest targets and identifying peer groups with the most similar performances
- Within-group common benchmarking using DEA
- The relevance of DEA benchmarking information and the least-distance measure
- DEA models for identifying critical performance measures
- Forecasting suitable benchmarks in data envelopment analysis
- Reconciling ratio analysis and DEA as performance assessment tools
- Measuring overall efficiency and effectiveness using DEA
- Performance benchmarking using interactive data envelopment analysis
- Benchmarking the benchmarks -- comparing the accuracy of data envelopment analysis models in constant returns to scale settings
- Finding the right yardstick: regulation of electricity networks under heterogeneous environments
- Decomposing the Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen total factor productivity indicator: an application to U.S. agriculture
- Evaluating treatment effects using data envelopment analysis on matched samples: an analysis of electronic information sharing and firm performance
- Combining uncertainty with uncertainty to get certainty? Efficiency analysis for regulation purposes
- Identifying production units with outstanding performance
- Theory and statistical properties of quantile data envelopment analysis
- A toolbox for calculating and decomposing total factor productivity indices
- Bayesian detection of clusters in efficiency score maps: an application to Brazilian energy regulation
- DEA production games
- Short communication: DEA based auctions simulations
- Trajectories of efficiency measurement: a bibliometric analysis of DEA and SFA
- Enhancing non-compensatory composite indicators: a directional proposal
- Econometric analysis of productivity: theory and implementation in R
- On the dynamics of eco-efficiency performance in the European Union
- Production and efficiency analysis with R
- Assessing performance in Greek bauxite mining by means of frontier estimation methodologies
- Efficiency of European airports: parametric versus non-parametric approach
- Structural reforms and technical efficiency in the Indian electricity distribution sector
- Combining the virtues of stochastic frontier and data envelopment analysis
- European energy efficiency evaluation based on the use of super-efficiency under undesirable outputs in SBM models
- An additive super-efficiency DEA approach to measuring regional environmental performance in China
- Robust nonparametric frontier estimation in two steps
- Benchmarking within a DEA framework: setting the closest targets and identifying peer groups with the most similar performances
- Limiting flexibility in nonparametric efficiency evaluations: an ex post \(k\)-centroid clustering approach
- Comparative performance analysis of frontier-based efficiency measurement methods -- a Monte Carlo simulation
- Generalized quantile and expectile properties for shape constrained nonparametric estimation
- Counterfactual analysis and target setting in benchmarking
- Using stochastic frontier analysis instead of data envelopment analysis in modelling investment performance
- Efficiency of socially responsible investments in the context of portfolio management
- Fifty years of data envelopment analysis
- Efficient property value estimation for single-family homes in central Florida
- Is it worth it? Using DEA to analyze the efficiency gains and costs of merging university departments: a case study of the Complutense University of Madrid
- Predicting demand for new products using polytope volume and benchmarking
- Merger remedies in frontier-based regulation
- Average-cost efficiency and optimal scale sizes in non-parametric analysis
- Data envelopment analysis with shrinkage estimators
- Mitigation effect on the efficiency mismeasurement of deterministic data envelopment analysis through statistical noise correction
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