Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Efficiency Persistence of Bank and Thrift CEOs Using Data Envelopment Analysis -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Literature Review -- 1.3 Data and Methodology -- 1.3.1 CEO Compensation, Efficiency, and Persistence -- 1.4 Empirical Results --...

Focusing on extensively used Data Envelopment Analysis topics, this volume aims to both describe the state of the field and extend the frontier of DEA research. New chapters include DEA models for DMUs, network DEA, models for supply chain operations and applications, and new developments.

This book surveys the state-of-the-art in efficiency and productivity analysis, examining advances in the analytical foundations and empirical applications. The analytical techniques developed in this book for efficiency provide alternative ways of defining optimum outcome sets, typically as a...

Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Ranking Decision Making Units: The Cross-Efficiency Evaluation -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Ranking Methods in DEA -- 1.3 The Cross-Efficiency Evaluation: The Standard Approach -- 1.4 The Choice of DEA Weights in Cross-Efficiency Evaluations --...