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Data envelopment analysis : theory and techniques for economics and operations research / Subhash C. Ray.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004Description: xii, 353 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521802563
  • 9780521802567
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4501 22
LOC classification:
  • HA31.38 .R39 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction and overview -- 2. Productivity, efficiency, and data envelopment analysis -- 3. Variable returns to scale : separating technical and scale efficiencies -- 4. Extensions to the basic DEA models -- 5. Nonradial models and Pareto-Koopmans measures of technical efficiency -- 6. Efficiency measurement without convexity assumption : free disposal hull analysis -- 7. Dealing with slacks : assurance region/cone ratio analysis, weak disposability, and congestion -- 8. Efficiency of merger and breakup of firms -- 9. Efficiency analysis with market prices -- 10. Nonparametric approaches in production economics -- 11. Measuring total productivity change over time -- 12. Stochastic approaches to data envelopment analysis -- 13. Looking ahead.
Review: "Using the neoclassical theory of production economics as the analytical framework, this book provides an exposition of the core literature on data envelopment analysis (DEA) for readers based in different disciplines. The various DEA models are developed as nonparametric alternatives to the econometric models. Apart form the standard fare consisting of the basic input- and output-oriented DEA models formulated by Charnes, Cooper, and Rhodes, and Banker, Charnes, and Cooper, the book covers more recent developments, such as the directional distance function, free disposal hull (FDH) analysis, nonradial measures of efficiency, multiplier bounds, mergers and breakup of firms, and measurement of productivity change through the Malmquist total factor productivity index. The chapter on efficiency measurement using market prices provides the critical link between DEA and the neoclassical theory of a competitive firm. The book also covers several forms of stochastic DEA in detail."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction and overview -- 2. Productivity, efficiency, and data envelopment analysis -- 3. Variable returns to scale : separating technical and scale efficiencies -- 4. Extensions to the basic DEA models -- 5. Nonradial models and Pareto-Koopmans measures of technical efficiency -- 6. Efficiency measurement without convexity assumption : free disposal hull analysis -- 7. Dealing with slacks : assurance region/cone ratio analysis, weak disposability, and congestion -- 8. Efficiency of merger and breakup of firms -- 9. Efficiency analysis with market prices -- 10. Nonparametric approaches in production economics -- 11. Measuring total productivity change over time -- 12. Stochastic approaches to data envelopment analysis -- 13. Looking ahead.

"Using the neoclassical theory of production economics as the analytical framework, this book provides an exposition of the core literature on data envelopment analysis (DEA) for readers based in different disciplines. The various DEA models are developed as nonparametric alternatives to the econometric models. Apart form the standard fare consisting of the basic input- and output-oriented DEA models formulated by Charnes, Cooper, and Rhodes, and Banker, Charnes, and Cooper, the book covers more recent developments, such as the directional distance function, free disposal hull (FDH) analysis, nonradial measures of efficiency, multiplier bounds, mergers and breakup of firms, and measurement of productivity change through the Malmquist total factor productivity index. The chapter on efficiency measurement using market prices provides the critical link between DEA and the neoclassical theory of a competitive firm. The book also covers several forms of stochastic DEA in detail."--BOOK JACKET.

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