Santin, Daniel; Delgado, Francisco; Valino, Aurelia - In: Applied Economics 36 (2004) 6, pp. 627-635
The main purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to artificial neural networks (ANNs) and to review their applications in efficiency analysis. Finally, a comparison of efficiency techniques in a non-linear production function is carried out. The results suggest that ANNs are a...