requirements that are not always obvious to the non-expert user. Bootstrap DEA is a significant development of the past decade …, which could be extended to test almost any hypothesis in bootstrap DEA. Moreover, it enhances the intuition behind bootstrap …

Since the introduction of bootstrap DEA there is a growing literature on applications which use this method, mainly for … hypothesis testing. It is therefore important to establish the consistency and evaluate the performance of bootstrap DEA. The few … coverage probabilities are not a good tool of assessment. In our study we evaluate the performance of bootstrap DEA using the …

Since the introduction of bootstrap DEA there is a growing literature on applications which use this method, mainly for … hypothesis testing. It is therefore important to establish the consistency and evaluate the performance of bootstrap DEA. The few … coverage probabilities are not a good tool of assessment. In our study we evaluate the performance of bootstrap DEA using the …

in analyses of productive efficiency. The distributions of these estimators remain unknown except in the simple case of … one input and one output, and previous bootstrap methods proposed for inference have not been proven consistent, making … result is then used to prove that two different bootstrap procedures (one based on sub-sampling, the other based on smoothing …

in analyses of productive efficiency. The distributions of these estimators remain unknown except in the simple case of … one input and one output, and previous bootstrap methods proposed for inference have not been proven consistent, making … result is then used to prove that two different bootstrap procedures (one based on sub-sampling, the other based on smoothing …

efficiency estimates with implications on firms’ and industries’ performance evaluation. There have been several DEA formulations … analysis for the assessment of the efficiency and ranking of the examined units. In addition to these computational approaches … this paper in order to overcome these problems applies bootstrap techniques. Moreover it provides an application evaluating …

economic journals. The paper categorizes the journals into four main categories (A to D) based on their efficiency levels. The …