efficiency indexes; technical efficiency axioms. 1 1. Introduction. Analysis of the axiomatic foundations of efficiency … efficiency indexes as functions of production data, which determine the technology. Second, the DEA-constructed technologies are … convex polyhedrons—usually convex polyhedral cones. We treat the efficiency indexes as functions of the 〈input, output …

technologies. JEL classification: C43; C61; D24. Keywords: Technical efficiency indexes; technical efficiency axioms 1 I …. Introduction. The use of technical efficiency indexes to identify and quantify the (in)efficiency of production units, introduced … choice among these efficiency indexes depends upon the investigator’s opinion about the relative attractiveness of the …