Introduction to the theory and application of data envelopment analysis : a...

Livre | Thanassoulis, Emmanuel. Auteur | 2001

Cost functions are nonconvex in the outputs when the technology is nonconve...

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Kerstens, Kristiaan | 2021-06-18

International audience. This contribution focuses on testing the empirical impact of the convexity assumption in estimating costs using nonparametric specifications of technology and cost functions. Apart from revie...

Assessing overall, technical, and scale efficiency among home health care a...

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Valdmanis, Vivian G. | 2016-01

International audience. While home health care agencies (HHAs) play a vital role in the production of health, little research has been performed gauging their efficiency. Employing a robust approach to data envelopm...

A two-stage translog marginal cost pricing approach for Floridian hospital ...

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Boussemart, Jean-Philippe | 2015-03

International audience. Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010, issues still remain regarding the mandated purchase of insurance to ensure more universal coverage. One such issue is the pricing o...

From partial derivatives of DEA frontiers to marginal products, marginal ra...

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Ouellette, Pierre | 2016-09

International audience. The characterization of a technology, from an economic point of view, often uses the first derivatives of either the transformation or the production function. In a parametric setting, these ...

Malmquist productivity indices and plant capacity utilisation: new proposal...

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Kerstens, Kristiaan | 2022

International audience. The purpose of this contribution is to compute the popular Malmquist productivity index while adding a component representing plant capacity utilisation. In particular, this is—to the best of...