Congestion measurement in nonparametric analysis under the weakly disposable technology

Lei Fang

European Journal of Operational Research, 2015, vol. 245, issue 1, 203-208

Abstract: Congestion is a widely observed economic phenomenon where outputs are reduced due to excessive amount of inputs. The previous approaches to identify congestion in nonparametric analysis only consider desirable outputs. In the production process, undesirable outputs are usually jointly produced with desirable outputs. In this paper, we propose an approach for measuring congestion in the presence of desirable and undesirable outputs simultaneously. The proposed approach can discriminate between the congested DMUs and the truly efficient DMUs, which are all efficient according to the scores calculated by the directional distance function. Finally, an empirical example is used to illustrate the approach.

Keywords: Data envelopment analysis; Undesirable output; Congestion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2015.03.001

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