This handbook covers DEA topics that are extensively used and solidly based. The purpose of the handbook is to (1) describe and elucidate the state of the field and (2), where appropriate, extend the frontier of DEA research. It defines the state-of-the-art of DEA methodology and its uses. This...

Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Ranking Decision Making Units: The Cross-Efficiency Evaluation -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Ranking Methods in DEA -- 1.3 The Cross-Efficiency Evaluation: The Standard Approach -- 1.4 The Choice of DEA Weights in Cross-Efficiency Evaluations --...

Efficiency Persistence of Bank and Thrift CEOs Using Data Envelopment Analysis -- Assessment of Transportation Performance: A Network Structure -- Total-Factor Energy Efficiency and Its Extensions: Introduction, Computation and Application -- Social cost efficient service quality – Integrating...

This handbook represents a milestone in the progression of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Written by experts who are often major contributors to DEA theory, it includes a collection of chapters that represent the current state-of-the-art in DEA research. Topics include distance functions and...

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Efficiency Persistence of Bank and Thrift CEOs Using Data Envelopment Analysis -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Literature Review -- 1.3 Data and Methodology -- 1.3.1 CEO Compensation, Efficiency, and Persistence -- 1.4 Empirical Results --...

Focusing on extensively used Data Envelopment Analysis topics, this volume aims to both describe the state of the field and extend the frontier of DEA research. New chapters include DEA models for DMUs, network DEA, models for supply chain operations and applications, and new developments.