International Applications of Productivity and Efficiency Analysis features a complete range of techniques utilized in frontier analysis, including extensions of existing techniques and the development of new techniques. Another feature is that most of the contributions use panel data in a...

In an earlier study, Parajuli and Haynes (Growth and Change 43:590–614, 2012) used Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to assess efficiency of broadband utilization across US states. They found that a number of states in the USA assumed an efficiency score of one for broadband adoption and use....

Using the number of base stations of Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access service as the output and the demand determinants — population, per capita income, and mean years of schooling — at the inputs in a data envelopment analysis model and a stochastic frontier framework, this...