This paper proposes a new method to measure economic inefficiency of decision making units based on the calculation of the least distance to the Pareto-efficient frontier in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). While all previously published approaches that have dealt with the problem of determining...

This book grows from a conference on the state of the art and recent advances in Efficiency and Productivity. Papers were commissioned from leading researchers in the field, and include eight explorations into the analytical foundations of efficiency and productivity analysis. Chapters on...