Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) assessment of composite indicators of infrastructure endowment

Silvia Terzi and Andrea Pierini ()
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Andrea Pierini: University Roma Tre, Department of Economics

Rivista di statistica ufficiale, 2015, vol. 17, issue 1, 5-18

Abstract: In Data Envelopment Analysis the distance from the best practice frontier can be interpreted as the economic performance of sample units.In the present paper this distance is used as an efficiency measure to correct the weighted average of non-substitutable sub-indicators of infrastructure endowment.

Keywords: benefit-of-the-doubt indicators; composite indicators; Data Envelopment Analysis; infrastructure endowment. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C18 H54 R50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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