Estimating production frontier shifts: An application of DEA to technology assessment

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 66, Issue , 1996, Pages 181-196

  Banker, Rajiv D ^a   Morey, Richard C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b 335 Statler Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency analysis; Innovation impact; Nonparametric estimation; Production frontier

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844493017     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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