Ebook: Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis

This handbook covers DEA topics that are extensively used and solidly based. The purpose of the handbook is to (1) describe and elucidate the state of the field and (2), where appropriate, extend the frontier of DEA research. It defines the state-of-the-art of DEA methodology and its uses. This handbook is intended to represent a milestone in the progression of DEA. Written by experts, who are generally major contributors to the topics to be covered, it includes a comprehensive review and discussion of basic DEA models, which, in the present issue extensions to the basic DEA methods, and a collection of DEA applications in the areas of banking, engineering, health care, and services. The handbook's chapters are organized into two categories: (i) basic DEA models, concepts, and their extensions, and (ii) DEA applications. First edition contributors have returned to update their work.

The second edition includes updated versions of selected first edition chapters. New chapters have been added on:

· Different approaches with no need for a priori choices of weights (called “multipliers) that reflect meaningful trade-offs.

· Construction of static and dynamic DEA technologies.

· Slacks-based model and its extensions

· DEA models for DMUs that have internal structures network DEA that can be used for measuring supply chain operations.

· Selection of DEA applications in the service sector with a focus on building a conceptual framework, research design and interpreting results.

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This handbook covers DEA topics that are extensively used and solidly based. The purpose of the handbook is to (1) describe and elucidate the state of the field and (2), where appropriate, extend the frontier of DEA research. It defines the state-of-the-art of DEA methodology and its uses. This handbook is intended to represent a milestone in the progression of DEA. Written by experts, who are generally major contributors to the topics to be covered, it includes a comprehensive review and discussion of basic DEA models, which, in the present issue extensions to the basic DEA methods, and a collection of DEA applications in the areas of banking, engineering, health care, and services. The handbook's chapters are organized into two categories: (i) basic DEA models, concepts, and their extensions, and (ii) DEA applications. First edition contributors have returned to update their work.

The second edition includes updated versions of selected first edition chapters. New chapters have been added on:

· Different approaches with no need for a priori choices of weights (called “multipliers) that reflect meaningful trade-offs.

· Construction of static and dynamic DEA technologies.

· Slacks-based model and its extensions

· DEA models for DMUs that have internal structures network DEA that can be used for measuring supply chain operations.

· Selection of DEA applications in the service sector with a focus on building a conceptual framework, research design and interpreting results.

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This handbook covers DEA topics that are extensively used and solidly based. The purpose of the handbook is to (1) describe and elucidate the state of the field and (2), where appropriate, extend the frontier of DEA research. It defines the state-of-the-art of DEA methodology and its uses. This handbook is intended to represent a milestone in the progression of DEA. Written by experts, who are generally major contributors to the topics to be covered, it includes a comprehensive review and discussion of basic DEA models, which, in the present issue extensions to the basic DEA methods, and a collection of DEA applications in the areas of banking, engineering, health care, and services. The handbook's chapters are organized into two categories: (i) basic DEA models, concepts, and their extensions, and (ii) DEA applications. First edition contributors have returned to update their work.

The second edition includes updated versions of selected first edition chapters. New chapters have been added on:

· Different approaches with no need for a priori choices of weights (called “multipliers) that reflect meaningful trade-offs.

· Construction of static and dynamic DEA technologies.

· Slacks-based model and its extensions

· DEA models for DMUs that have internal structures network DEA that can be used for measuring supply chain operations.

· Selection of DEA applications in the service sector with a focus on building a conceptual framework, research design and interpreting results.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Data Envelopment Analysis: History, Models, and Interpretations....Pages 1-39
Returns to Scale in DEA....Pages 41-70
Sensitivity Analysis in DEA....Pages 71-91
Choices and Uses of DEA Weights....Pages 93-126
Malmquist Productivity Indexes and DEA....Pages 127-149
Qualitative Data in DEA....Pages 151-172
Congestion: Its Identification and Management with DEA....Pages 173-193
Slacks-Based Measure of Efficiency....Pages 195-209
Chance-Constrained DEA....Pages 211-240
Performance of the Bootstrap for DEA Estimators and Iterating the Principle....Pages 241-271
Statistical Tests Based on DEA Efficiency Scores....Pages 273-295
Modeling DMU’s Internal Structures: Cooperative and Noncooperative Approaches....Pages 297-313
Assessing Bank and Bank Branch Performance....Pages 315-361
Engineering Applications of Data Envelopment Analysis....Pages 363-402
Applications of Data Envelopment Analysis in the Service Sector....Pages 403-443
Health-Care Applications: From Hospitals to Physicians, from Productive Efficiency to Quality Frontiers....Pages 445-493
Back Matter....Pages 495-497

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This handbook covers DEA topics that are extensively used and solidly based. The purpose of the handbook is to (1) describe and elucidate the state of the field and (2), where appropriate, extend the frontier of DEA research. It defines the state-of-the-art of DEA methodology and its uses. This handbook is intended to represent a milestone in the progression of DEA. Written by experts, who are generally major contributors to the topics to be covered, it includes a comprehensive review and discussion of basic DEA models, which, in the present issue extensions to the basic DEA methods, and a collection of DEA applications in the areas of banking, engineering, health care, and services. The handbook's chapters are organized into two categories: (i) basic DEA models, concepts, and their extensions, and (ii) DEA applications. First edition contributors have returned to update their work.

The second edition includes updated versions of selected first edition chapters. New chapters have been added on:

· Different approaches with no need for a priori choices of weights (called “multipliers) that reflect meaningful trade-offs.

· Construction of static and dynamic DEA technologies.

· Slacks-based model and its extensions

· DEA models for DMUs that have internal structures network DEA that can be used for measuring supply chain operations.

· Selection of DEA applications in the service sector with a focus on building a conceptual framework, research design and interpreting results.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Data Envelopment Analysis: History, Models, and Interpretations....Pages 1-39
Returns to Scale in DEA....Pages 41-70
Sensitivity Analysis in DEA....Pages 71-91
Choices and Uses of DEA Weights....Pages 93-126
Malmquist Productivity Indexes and DEA....Pages 127-149
Qualitative Data in DEA....Pages 151-172
Congestion: Its Identification and Management with DEA....Pages 173-193
Slacks-Based Measure of Efficiency....Pages 195-209
Chance-Constrained DEA....Pages 211-240
Performance of the Bootstrap for DEA Estimators and Iterating the Principle....Pages 241-271
Statistical Tests Based on DEA Efficiency Scores....Pages 273-295
Modeling DMU’s Internal Structures: Cooperative and Noncooperative Approaches....Pages 297-313
Assessing Bank and Bank Branch Performance....Pages 315-361
Engineering Applications of Data Envelopment Analysis....Pages 363-402
Applications of Data Envelopment Analysis in the Service Sector....Pages 403-443
Health-Care Applications: From Hospitals to Physicians, from Productive Efficiency to Quality Frontiers....Pages 445-493
Back Matter....Pages 495-497
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