On FDH Efficiency Analysis: Some Methodological Issues and Applications to Retail Banking, Courts and Urban Transit

Henry Tulkens

Chapter Chapter 14 in Public goods, environmental externalities and fiscal competition, 2006, pp 311-342 from Springer

Abstract: Abtract The methodology of free disposal hull (FDH) measure of productive efficiency is defined and put in perspective vis-à-vis other nonparametric techniques, in terms of the postulates on which they respectively rest. Computational issues are also considered, in relation to the linear programming techniques used in DEA. The first application bears on a comparison between a private and a public bank, in terms of the relative efficiency of their branches. Important characteristics of the data are revealed by FDH that are not by DEA, due to a better data fit. Next, efficiency estimates of judicial activities are used to evaluate what part of the existing backlog could be reduced by efficiency increases. Finally, with monthly data of an urban transit firm over 12 years, the FDH methodology is extended to a sequential treatment of time series, that supplements efficiency estimation with a measure of technical progress.

Keywords: Public Good; Data Envelopment Analysis; Efficiency Score; Technical Progress; Private Bank (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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Journal Article: On FDH efficiency analysis: Some methodological issues and applications to retail banking, courts, and urban transit (1993)
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-25534-7_17

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