Data envelopment analysis: Critique and extensions
- 1 December 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in New Directions for Program Evaluation
- Vol. 1986 (32), 73-105
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ev.1441
Abstract
This chapter points out serious shortcomings in DEA's treatment of price efficiency, illustrates the dangers of misspecification errors in DEA, and suggests extentions of the basic DEA formulation that address these shortcomings.Keywords
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