This book surveys the state-of-the-art in efficiency and productivity analysis, examining advances in the analytical foundations and empirical applications. The analytical techniques developed in this book for efficiency provide alternative ways of defining optimum outcome sets, typically as a...

We investigate the effect on municipality spending efficiency of a local property tax reform, which reduced in 2008 the upper limit of the property tax. We compute municipality efficiency scores via data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) from 2005 to 2011, and then we rely in a panel data set to...

Chapter 1. Data Envelopment Analysis and Big Data: Revisit with a Faster Method -- Chapter 2. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA): Algorithms, Computations, and Geometry -- Chapter 3. An Introduction to Data Science and Its Applications: an Introduction to Data Science and Its Applications --...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. New Definitions of Economic Cross-Efficiency -- Chapter 3. Evaluating Efficiency in Non-Homogeneous Environments -- Chapter 4. Testing Positive Endogeneity in Inputs in Data Envelopment Analysis -- Chapter 5. Modelling Pollution-Generating Technologies: A...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Conceptual background: firms’ objectives, decision variables and economic efficiency -- Part I -- Chapter 3: Shephard’s input and output distance functions: cost and revenue efficiency decompositions -- Chapter 4: The generalized distance function (GDF):...