How to generate regularly behaved production data? A Monte Carlo experimentation on DEA scale efficiency measurement

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 303-310

  Perelman, Sergio ^a   Santín, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

DEA; Monte Carlo experiments; Parametric distance function; Scale efficiency; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

DEA; MONTE CARLO EXPERIMENTS; PARAMETRIC DISTANCE FUNCTION; SCALE EFFICIENCY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

EXPERIMENTS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 67349252037     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.11.013     Document Type: Article

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