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Efficiency characterizations in different DEA models

Socio-Economic Planning SciencesPublished 1 January 1988
TaeSik Ahn, A. Charnes, W. W. Cooper
Citations116
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Abstract

Relations of efficiency and non-efficiency for the same sets of DMUs (Decision Making Units) are developed for the Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes (CCR) and Barker, Charnes, Cooper (BCC) ratio models, as well as DEA Additive and Multiplicative Models. Surprisingly, additively efficient DMUs are not necessarily multiplicatively efficient. A geometric "stretching" phenomenon is identified for the latter case.

Keywords

Decision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance