Negative Data in DEA: A Simple Proportional Distance Function Approach

Kristiaan Kerstens and Ignace Van de Woestyne
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Ignace Van de Woestyne: Hogeschool Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

No 2009-ECO-03, Working Papers from IESEG School of Management

Abstract: The need to adapt Data Development Analysis (DEA) and other frontier models in the context of negative data has been a rather neglected issue in the literature. Silva Portela, Thanassoulis, and Simpson (2004) proposed a variation on the directional distance function, a very general distance function that is dual to the profit function, to accomodate eventual negative data. In this contribution, we suggest a simple varaiation on the proportional distance funtion that can do the same job.

Keywords: DEA; negative data; directional distance funtion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2009-04
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