Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is often used by regulators to create a pseudo-competitive environment for sectors with … unconventional approaches, which furthermore are not easily changed. In this paper, we discuss the model used for DEA-based benchmark … that only those companies that in the DEA assign weights to those output measures adjusted for environmental conditions …

When benchmarking production units by non-parametric methods like data envelopment analysis (DEA), an assumption has to … frontiers across samples of producers. Until now, no exact tests for examining returns to scale assumptions in DEA, or for test … test for the hypothesis of constant returns to scale in DEA. The others are tests for general frontier differences and …

issues of a non-parametric approach. Most importantly, the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique is presented and then …

, which was examined using non-parametric DEA method. The author developed four types of the bank activities, half of which … technical efficiency, scale and determinants of changes in the efficiency calculated using the Malmquist productivity index …

relationship between schooling inputs and cognitive skills, due to incentive effects. We then use a two-stage DEA approach to …

-stage procedure. In the first stage, an indicator of energy efficiency is derived by means of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and the … analogy between the DEA estimator and traditional measures of energy efficiency is demonstrated. The second stage employs a …

, and health behaviour such as obesity and smoking habits. The used bootstrapping procedure corrects likely biased DEA …