We reconsider the motivation of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), the non-parametric technique that is widely employed … conventional engineering motivation of DEA can be problematic since it often builds on unverifiable production axioms. We then … provide a dual viewpoint and highlight the ‘behavioral’ interpretation of DEA models. We start from a specification of the …

Cherchye, De Rock, Dierynck, Roodhooft, and Sabbe (2013) introduced a DEA methodology that is specially tailored for … with several limitations of existing DEA approaches to treat undesirable outputs. We also demonstrate the practical …

We reconsider the motivation of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), the non-parametrictechnique that is widely employed … conventional engineering motivationof DEA can be problematic since it often builds on unverifiable production axioms. Wethen … provide a dual viewpoint and highlight the `behavioral' interpretation of DEA models.We start from a specification of the …