This paper used Data Envelopment Analysis IDEA) to test the economic consequences of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) cotton dust standards by comparing the relative efficiency of firms affected by cotton dust in SIC 2200 and 2300 for the years before and after the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show the applicability of data envelopment analysis (DEA) in arriving at an unbiased account of relative performance in a set of companies, using the pharmaceutical industry as an example. Design/methodology/approach – A DEA-based income efficiency...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to rank the relative efficiency of thirty-two counties comprising the Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Region and finds that the greatest external economies originate in the urban core and decline toward the periphery. By employing 1993 IMPLAN...