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Estimating returns to scale using non-pa

Estimating returns to scale using non-parametric deterministic technologies: A new method based on goodness-of-fit

✍ Kristiaan Kerstens; Philippe Vanden Eeckaut 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 144 KB

The purpose of this note is to de®ne a new and more general method to obtain qualitative information about returns to scale for individual observations. The traditional methods developed for estimating returns to scale on non-parametric deterministic reference technologies (Data Envelopment Analysis