Far out or alone in the crowd: A taxonomy of peers in DEA
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Authors:
Edvardsen, D. F., F.R. Førsund and S.A.C. Kittelsen
Year:
2008
Reference:
Journal of Productivity Analysis
Vol 29: 201-210Summary
A method is presented for classifying strongly efficient units in DEA as interior or exterior, and as self-evaluators or active peers. The exterior strongly efficient units are found by running the enveloping procedure “from below”. There is no firm production-function evidence of the efficiency of exterior self-evaluators. Interior self-evaluators are more likely to have active peers as neighbours in more directions and may therefore represent technology. When performing a second stage regression analysis of efficiency scores, exterior selfevaluators should be removed. The proportion of exterior active peers also provides information on whether the variable specification is supported by the data.
JEL:
C44, C61, D24, I19, L32
Keywords:
Interior and exterior peer, active peer and self-evaluator, DEA, referencing zone, nursing homes
Project:
Oppdragsgiver: Norges forskningsrådOppdragsgivers prosjektnr.:
Frisch prosjekt: 4101 - Economics of health
Financing:
Research Council of Norway through HERO
