Data Envelopment Analysis: Theory, Methodology, and Applications [1 ed.] 978-0-7923-9480-8, 978-94-011-0637-5

Table of contents :
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-21
Basic DEA Models....Pages 23-47
Extensions to DEA Models....Pages 49-61
Computational Aspects of DEA....Pages 63-88
DEA Software Packages....Pages 89-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Evaluating the Impacts of Operating Strategies on Efficiency in the U.S. Airline Industry....Pages 97-128
Analyzing Technical and Allocative Efficiency of Hospitals....Pages 129-144
A Multiperiod Analysis of Market Segments and Brand Efficiency in the Competitive Carbonated Beverage Industry....Pages 145-165
Exploring Why Some Physicians’ Hospital Practices are More Efficient: Taking DEA Inside the Hospital....Pages 167-193
On the Measurement and Monitoring of Relative Efficiency of Highway Maintenance Patrols....Pages 195-210
Strategic Leaders in the U.S. Brewing Industry: A Longitudinal Analysis of Outliers....Pages 211-234
A Spatial Efficiency Framework for the Support of Locational Decision....Pages 235-251
Productivity Developments in Swedish Hospitals: A Malmquist Output Index Approach....Pages 253-272
Ownership Type, Property Rights, and Relative Efficiency....Pages 273-283
A Comparative Analysis of Ferry Transport in Norway....Pages 285-311
Incorporating Standards via DEA....Pages 313-328
Stratified Models of Education Production Using Modified DEA and Regression Analysis....Pages 329-351
The Problem of New and Disappearing Commodities in the Construction of Price Indexes....Pages 353-367
Evaluating the Relative Efficiency of Baseball Players....Pages 369-391
Sensitivity Analysis of Efficiency Measures with Applications to Kansas Farming and Illinois Coal Mining....Pages 393-422
Front Matter....Pages 423-423
The DEA Process, Usages, and Interpretations....Pages 425-435
A DEA Bibliography (1978–1992)....Pages 437-469
Back Matter....Pages 471-513