it was noted thatstandard approaches for conducting sensitivity analyses in linearprogramming could not be used in DEA …

Sensitivity of the returns to scale (RTS) classifications in data envelopment analysis is studied by means of linear … perturbations are non-proportional. It is shown that the sensitivity analysis method under proportional data perturbations can also … classifications. This sensitivity analysis method can easily be applied via existing DEA codes. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers …

As its title suggests, this note constitutes a critique of the paper by Seiford and Zhu (1999), “Sensitivity and …

estimates. A very simple example is given to illustrate the statistical issues underlying nonparametric efficiency measurement …

the paper, mathematical programming frontier methods are used to investigate the production efficiency of Essex lay … efficiency. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1997 …

affected by regulation. This paper demonstrates how parametric and nonparametric efficiency measures can be employed to produce …

for meaningful first- stage efficiency estimates and second-stage regression. After some confusion in the literature … are appropriate. The results reveal a significant relation between efficiency and all the variables analysed and that …

Technical progress and production efficiency are central to economic growth and international competitiveness. However … understand the extent and importance of technical progress and efficiency in Turkish manufacturing industries. Stochastic …-dependent variables in the production function. Sector-specific factors which influence technical efficiency of manufacturing plants are …