Data envelopment analysis: Critique and extensions

19861,247 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Thomas R. Sexton · State University of New York

Richard H. Silkman · University of Southern Maine

Andrew J. Hogan · Michigan State University

Abstract

Abstract This chapter points out serious shortcomings in DEA's treatment of price efficiency, illustrates the dangers of misspecification errors in DEA, and suggests extentions of the basic DEA formulation that address these shortcomings.

Topics & Keywords

Efficiency Analysis Using DEA Economic Growth and Productivity Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Decent work and economic growth

Publication Details

Published in: New Directions for Program Evaluation

Volume 1986, Issue 32, pp. 73-105

DOI: 10.1002/ev.1441

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