Input Efficiency Measures: A Generalized, Encompassing Formulation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Briec, Walter; Cavaignac, Laurent; Kerstens, Kristiaan
• 署名单位: Universite Perpignan Via Domitia; Universite Perpignan Via Domitia; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); CNRS - Institute for Humanities & Social Sciences (INSHS); IESEG School of Management; Universite de Lille
• 刊物名称: OPERATIONS RESEARCH
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0030-364X
• DOI: 10.1287/opre.2019.1963
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 1836-1849
• 关键词: technical efficiency; scale; MODEL

摘要

This contribution defines a new generalized input efficiency measure which encompasses and thus links four well-known input efficiency measures: the Debreu-Farrell measure, the Fare-Lovell measure, the asymmetric Fare measure, and the multiplicative Fare-Lovell measure. The axiomatic properties of this new measure are studied. The generalized input efficiency measure naturally leads to the definition of new measures as special cases. It also provides a general framework for testing the choice of efficiency measures. Examples of mathematical programming models in specific cases are established to illustrate this new measure.