Data Envelopment Analysis in a Stochastic Setting: The right answer from the wrong model?

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is compared to stochastic production function estimation (SPFE) in a noisy setting. The statistic of interest is the average efficiency estimator. Monte-Carlo simulations show that the mean squared error of the DEA-estimator even for considerable noise remains below t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gstach, Dieter
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Inst. für Volkswirtschaftstheorie und -politik, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business 1994
Online Access:http://epub.wu.ac.at/6304/1/WP_29.pdf