Managing Service Productivity using Data Envelopment Analysis -- Development of Assessment Model for Research Efficiency of Universities -- Incorporating intra- and inter-input/output weight restrictions in piece-wise linear DEA: an application to the assessment of the research activity in...

Introduction to GAMS -- Introduction to Data Envelopment Analysis -- Extensions of DEA models -- Non-radial DEA models -- Allocative, cost, technical, revenue, and profit efficiency -- Special cases in DEA -- Productivity change -- Concluding remarks.

This study presents some quantitative evidence from a number of simulation experiments on the accuracy of the productivity growth estimates derived from growth accounting (GA) and frontier-based methods (namely data envelopment analysis-, corrected ordinary least squares-, and stochastic...