A dual simplex-based method for determination of the right and left returns to scale in DEA

M. Zarepisheh and Majid Soleimani-damaneh

European Journal of Operational Research, 2009, vol. 194, issue 2, 585-591

Abstract: This study reviews the concept of the "right" and the "left" returns to scale (RTS) in data envelopment analysis (DEA), and a dual simplex-based method, for determining these two notions in RTS, is proposed, which has computational advantages as compared to the customary method.

Keywords: DEA; Returns; to; scale; Linear; programming; Dual-simplex; algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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