TY - JOUR
T1 - Foundations of data envelopment analysis for Pareto-Koopmans efficient empirical production functions
AU - Charnes, A.
AU - Cooper, W. W.
AU - Golany, B.
AU - Seiford, L.
AU - Stutz, J.
N1 - Funding Information:
*This research was partly supported by NSF Grant SES-8408134 and USARI Contract MDA903-X3-K-0312 with the Center for Cybernetic Studies, The University of Texas at Austin. Reproduction in whole or in part is permitted for any purpose of the Unisted States Government. ‘The need for some method of estimating frontier functions had been pointed out as early as 1935 by R. Frisch (1935) in his statistical study of chocolate production in France.
PY - 1985
Y1 - 1985
N2 - The construction and analysis of Pareto-efficient frontier production functions by a new Data Envelopment Analysis method is presented in the context of new theoretical characterizations of the inherent structure and capabilities of such empirical production functions. Contrasts and connections with other developments, including solutions of some remaining problems, are made re aspects such as informatics, economics of scale, isotonicity and non-concavity, discretionary and non-discretionary inputs, piecewise linearity, partial derivatives and Cobb-Douglas properties of the functions. Non-Archimedean constructs are not required.
AB - The construction and analysis of Pareto-efficient frontier production functions by a new Data Envelopment Analysis method is presented in the context of new theoretical characterizations of the inherent structure and capabilities of such empirical production functions. Contrasts and connections with other developments, including solutions of some remaining problems, are made re aspects such as informatics, economics of scale, isotonicity and non-concavity, discretionary and non-discretionary inputs, piecewise linearity, partial derivatives and Cobb-Douglas properties of the functions. Non-Archimedean constructs are not required.
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U2 - 10.1016/0304-4076(85)90133-2
DO - 10.1016/0304-4076(85)90133-2
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AN - SCOPUS:46549095373
SN - 0304-4076
VL - 30
SP - 91
EP - 107
JO - Journal of Econometrics
JF - Journal of Econometrics
IS - 1-2
ER -