Li, Yongjun; Yang, Min; Chen, Ya; Dai, Qianzhi; Liang, Liang - In: Omega 41 (2013) 1, pp. 55-60
This paper uses the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique to solve the problem of allocating a fixed cost across a set of comparable decision making units (DMUs) in a fair way. It first investigates the effect of the fixed cost on each DMU and on the collection of DMUs. Next we prove that...