BAM: A bounded adjusted measure of efficiency for use with bounded additive models

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 85-94

  Cooper, William W ^a   Pastor, Jesús T ^b   Borras, Fernando ^b   Aparicio, Juan ^b   Pastor, Diego ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Additive models; Bounded additive models; DEA; Efficiency measures; Returns to scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952192341     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-010-0190-2     Document Type: Article

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