Grifell-Tatjé, E.; Lovell, C.; Pastor, J. - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 10 (1998) 1, pp. 7-20
The Malmquist productivity index is based on distance functions, which are reciprocals of radial Debreu-Farrell efficiency measures, and which have a number of desirable properties. Linear programming techniques are frequently employed to calculate the efficiency measures. However these...