From partial derivatives of DEA frontiers to marginal products, marginal rates of substitution, and returns to scale

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2016.02.036zbMath1346.90596OpenAlexW2290394383MaRDI QIDQ323270

Stéphane Vigeant, Pierre Ouellette

Publication date: 7 October 2016

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2016.02.036

zbMATH Keywords

data envelopment analysisfirst derivativesmarginal productstransformation function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Special problems of linear programming (transportation, multi-index, data envelopment analysis, etc.) (90C08)

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Uses Software

• bootstrap

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