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Benchmarking with DEA, SFA, and R

Part of the International Series in Operations Research & Management Science Book Series (volume 157)

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7961-2

ISBN: 978-1-4419-7960-5

Publisher: Springer New York - Springer Journals

Nov 10, 2010

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction to Benchmarking

Bogetoft, Peter; Otto, Lars

Pages: 1 –22

[This chapter gives a overview of the questions and methods covered in this book. What is the idea of efficiency analyses and benchmarking?Why do we benchmark? What are the state–of–the–art methods that we shall discuss in this book? The chapter is mainly conceptual and can be read with a minimum...
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Chapter 2Efficiency Measures

Bogetoft, Peter; Otto, Lars

Pages: 23 –55

[In Chap. 1, we introduced efficiency as the use of the fewest inputs (resources) to produce the most outputs (services). This idea is fundamental to much of modern benchmarking literature because it allows us to evaluate performance without clearly defined preferences. That is, we avoid the...
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Chapter 3Production Models and Technology

Bogetoft, Peter; Otto, Lars

Pages: 57 –80

[In Chap. 1, we briefly introduced the concept of a production set or a technology as a way to characterize the production possibilities in a given application. This concept is crucial in advanced benchmarking because it defines the set of possible performance outcomes against which we can...
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Chapter 4Data Envelopment Analysis DEA

Bogetoft, Peter; Otto, Lars

Pages: 81 –113

[In this and the next chapter, we cover the basics and some additional material on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA combines the estimation of the technology with the measurement of performance as related to this technology. It thereby integrates the two basic problems of a) defining a...
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Chapter 5Additional Topics in DEA

Bogetoft, Peter; Otto, Lars

Pages: 115 –153

[We covered the basics of DEA in the previous chapter. In this chapter, we will cover some additional topics that we find particularly relevant both to applications and to our understanding of DEA.]
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Chapter 6Statistical Analysis in DEA

Bogetoft, Peter; Otto, Lars

Pages: 155 –196

[DEA is often classified as a non-statistical or deterministic approach that does not easily allow genuine hypothesis testing. Although DEA has not historically emphasized the use of traditional statistical tests, considerable progress has been made in this respect over the last 15 years. We will...
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Chapter 7Stochastic Frontier Analysis SFA

Bogetoft, Peter; Otto, Lars

Pages: 197 –231

[As explained in Chap. 1, there are two dominant approaches to modern benchmarking. One is the non-parametric, deterministic DEA approach discussed in some detail in the last three chapters; other is the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), which we will cover in this and the next chapter. In the...
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Chapter 8Additional Topics in SFA

Bogetoft, Peter; Otto, Lars

Pages: 233 –262

[In this chapter, we continue our coverage of Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA).We extend the use of SFA to the estimation of general multi-input, multi-output productions functions and show how to estimate cost functions rather than the production functions that we focused on in Chap. 7. We...
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Chapter 9Merger Analysis

Bogetoft, Peter; Otto, Lars

Pages: 263 –297

[The quantitative literature on productivity has focused mainly on measuring the efficiency of individual firms and organizations. The results demonstrate how much can be gained by individual improvements, by learning best practices and by designing appropriate incentive schemes at the firm level.]
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Chapter 10Regulation and Contracting

Bogetoft, Peter; Otto, Lars

Pages: 299 –324

[One of the more prominent applications of state-of-the-art benchmarking is in the regulation of natural monopolies in general and electricity and gas networks, in particular. Benchmarking studies applied to inform such regulation has considerable economic impact on firms and consumers alike.]

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