Data Envelopment Analysis: Theory, Methodology, and Applications

This book establishes a reference source for DEA that accomplishes the following seven objectives: Motivates DEA as a new approach to organizing and analyzing data beyond its origin in efficiency analyses; Presents an integrated framework, and standardized notation for understanding basic DEA models and their extension; Develops a deeper understanding of computational issues involved in solving various DEA formulations; Provides insights into the DEA process, its usage and interpretations; Highlights the range of potential uses of DEA through examples of novel applications; Provides an updated comprehensive bibliography; Facilitates the diffusion of DEA by making Chapters 1--4 and 21 available for inclusion in operations research, econometric and statistic textbooks under normal provisions which maintain original copyright status.

I Concepts, Models, and Computation. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Basic DEA Models. - 3 Extensions to DEA Models. - 4 Computational Aspects of DEA. - 5 DEA Software Packages. - II Novel Applications. - 6 Evaluating the Impacts of Operating Strategies on Efficiency in the U. S. Airline Industry. - 7 Analyzing Technical and Allocative Efficiency of Hospitals. - 8 A Multiperiod Analysis of Market Segments and Brand Efficiency in the Competitive Carbonated Beverage Industry. - 9 Exploring Why Some Physicians Hospital Practices Are More Efficient: Taking DEA Inside the Hospital. - 10 On the Measurement and Monitoring of Relative Efficiency of Highway Maintenance Patrols. - 11 Strategic Leaders in the U. S. Brewing industry: A Longitudinal Analysis of Outliers. - 12 A Spatial Efficiency Framework for the Support of Locational Decision. - 13 Productivity Developments in Swedish Hospitals: A Malmquist Output Index Approach. - 14 Ownership Type, Property Rights, and Relative Efficiency. - 15 A Comparative Analysis of Ferry Transport in Norway. - 16 Incorporating Standards Via DEA. - 17 Stratified Models of Education Production Using Modified DEA and Regression Analysis. - 18 The Problem of New and Disappearing Commodities in the Construction of Price Indexes. - 19 Evaluating the Relative Efficiency of Baseball Players. - 20 Sensitivity Analysis of Efficiency Measures with Applications to Kansas Farming and Illinois Coal Mining. - III Epilogue: Process and Bibliography. - 21 The DEA Process, Usages, and Interpretations. - 22 A DEA Bibliography (1978 1992). - Notes about Authors. - List of Conference Participants. - References.