Super-efficiency of education institutions: an application to economics departments

Matthias Gnewuch and Klaus Wohlrabe

EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 2018, vol. 26, 610-623

Abstract: This paper investigates the efficiency of 188 economics departments around the world using data from RePEc. We go beyond the heavily used data envelopment analysis and utilize partial frontier analysis – specifically order-α and order-m – which addresses some of the drawbacks of the standard efficiency frontier analysis and allows for so-called super-efficient departments. We examine the particularities of these approaches and find that the super-efficient departments are not only the ‘usual suspects’. Furthermore, standard output rankings are not well correlated with our estimated efficiency rankings, which themselves are rather similar.

Keywords: Super-efficiency; economics departments; data envelopment analysis; order-α; order-m; free disposal hull; RePEc (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2018.1471663

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