Benchmarking by means of applying the DEA model is appearing as an interesting alternative for regulators under the new …

The performance of local tax offices of Norway is studied over a three year period applying Data Envelopment Efficiency … DEA models. The results show that bias correction and the construction of confidence intervals give a quite different …

Applications of the DEA models show that inadequate results may arise in some cases, two of these inadequacies being: a …) too many efficient units may appear in some DEA models; b) a DEA model may show an inefficient unit from the point of view … concept of a terminal unit is introduced for such units. A method for improving the adequacy of DEA models based on terminal …

Measuring productive efficiency is an important research strand within fields of economics, management science and … operations research. One definition of efficiency is the proportional scaling needed for observations of an inefficient unit to … weighted inputs. When linear programming is used to estimate efficiency the two definitions give identical results due to the …