This paper is concerned with introducing a series of new concepts under the name of Economic Cross-Efficiency, which is …, we connect two key topics in the efficiency literature that have been unrelated until now: economic efficiency and cross-efficiency …) cross-efficiency for unit l, when the weights of an alternative counterpart k are used in the evaluation, coincides with the …

efficiency -- Part I -- Chapter 3: Shephard’s input and output distance functions: cost and revenue efficiency decompositions … -- Chapter 4: The generalized distance function (GDF): Profitability efficiency decomposition -- Part II -- Chapter 5: The …This book unifies and extends the definition and measurement of economic efficiency and its use as a real …

Overall efficiency measures were introduced in the literature for evaluating the economic performance of firms when … shown that the result of applying cross-efficiency methods (Sexton et al., 1986), yielding an aggregate multilateral index … a measure of economic efficiency. They termed the new approach ‘economic cross-efficiency'. However, these authors …