Input Measures of Technical Efficiency: An Axiomatization

Flemming Christensen and Jens Hougaard (jlh@ifro.ku.dk)
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Flemming Christensen: Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen

No 91-22, Discussion Papers from University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics

Abstract: Several axioms have been proposed for the axiomatization of input measures of technical efficiency. In this paper our primary concern is the Färe-Lovell efficiency measure. It is shown that this measure can be characterized by a set of five independent axioms.

Pages: 10 pages
Date: 1991-12
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