Estimation of returns to scale using data envelopment analysis: A comment

DOI10.1016/0377-2217(94)90366-2zbMath0816.90018OpenAlexW2040245139MaRDI QIDQ1342077

Shawna Grosskopf, Rolf Faere

Publication date: 11 January 1995

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0377-2217(94)90366-2

zbMATH Keywords

data envelopment analysisreturns to scale

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38) Multisectoral models in economics (91B66)

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