Degree of scale economies and congestion: A unified DEA approach

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 755-772

  Tone, Kaoru ^a   Sahoo, Biresh K ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES   (Japan)

^b T A PAI MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Congestion; DEA; Degree of scale economies; Scale elasticity

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; ELASTICITY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; VECTORS;

CONGESTION; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA); DEGREE OF SCALE ECONOMIES (DSE); SCALE ELASTICITY;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 2942534705     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(03)00370-9     Document Type: Article

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