De Rock, Bram; Cherchye, Laurens - European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and … - 2013
We reconsider the motivation of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), the non-parametrictechnique that is widely employed … conventional engineering motivationof DEA can be problematic since it often builds on unverifiable production axioms. Wethen … provide a dual viewpoint and highlight the `behavioral' interpretation of DEA models.We start from a specification of the …