Attempts can be found in the DEA literature to identify returns to scale at efficient interior points of the production …

Attempts can be found in the data envelopment analysis (DEA) literature to identify returns to scale at efficient … point of a face is a much easier problem than to find all vertices of this face. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media …

then be established. -- Returns to scale ; DEA ; Interior points ; Vertices …Attempts can be found in the DEA literature to identify returns to scale at efficient interior points of the production …

fundamental duality of linear programming. Empirical applications of DEA using linear programming showed a prevalence of zero …

fundamental duality of linear programming. Empirical applications of DEA using linear programming showed a prevalence of zero … frontier production function. -- Weight restrictions ; DEA ; efficiency ; frontier production function ; primal and dual linear …

fundamental duality of linear programming. Empirical applications of DEA using linear programming showed a prevalence of zero …

(DEA) for the analysed pupils faced up to their own education. Efficiency scores are explained taking into account pupil …

When benchmarking production units by non-parametric methods like data envelopment analysis (DEA), an assumption has to … frontiers across samples of producers. Until now, no exact tests for examining returns to scale assumptions in DEA, or for test … test for the hypothesis of constant returns to scale in DEA. The others are tests for general frontier differences and …

Two alternative estimation models, i.e., a translog cost function and data envelopment analysis (DEA) based on a cost … results indicate that while the translog cost model exhibits increasing returns to scale for all the ownership groups, the DEA … is very restrictive. The DEA cost model is much more flexible in this respect: It neither requires the restrictive …