Value and quantity data in economic and technical efficiency measurement

This paper calls attention to the implications of using value data in efficiency measurement through Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The main contributions are twofold: (i) it provides a reconciliation of the previous literature on analysing issues of quantity and value data in efficiency measurement, (ii) it provides some guidelines on what to do, when these issues arise in a data set.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Silva Portela, Maria Conceição A.
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 124.2014, 1, p. 108-112
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Data Envelopment Analysis \| Technical efficiency \| Cost efficiency

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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