A Computationally Efficient, Consistent Bootstrap for Inference with Non-parametric DEA Estimators

Computational Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 483-515

  Kneip, Alois ^a   Simar, Léopold ^b   Wilson, Paul W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c Bowling Green State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Inference; Nonparametric; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052381555     PISSN: 09277099     EISSN: 15729974     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10614-010-9217-z     Document Type: Article

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