Measuring the efficiency of NBA teams: Additive efficiency decomposition in two-stage DEA

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 565-589

  Yang, Chih Hai ^a   Lin, Hsuan Yu ^a   Chen, Chiang Ping ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Taiwan Institute of Economic Research   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Additive efficiency decomposition; NBA; On court efficiency; Wage efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901977642     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-014-1536-3     Document Type: Article

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