Bardhan, Indranil; Cooper, William; Kumbhakar, Subal - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 9 (1998) 3, pp. 249-278
A previous paper by Arnold, Bardhan, Cooper and Kumbhakar (1996) introduced a very simple method to estimate a production frontier by proceeding in two stages as follows: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used in the first stage to identify efficient and inefficient decision-making units...