Scale Efficiency: Where Data Envelopment Analysis Outperforms Stochastic Production Function Estimation

Robustness of DEA scale efficiency scores is investigared in the context of non-radial efficency measures. Most efficient scales are identified with DEA's refernce firms instead of traditional clustering techniques.The systematic difference between single- and multi-output technologies as conc...

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Main Author: Gstach, Dieter
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Inst. für Volkswirtschaftstheorie und -politik, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business 1993
Online Access:http://epub.wu.ac.at/6298/1/WP_23.pdf