Skip to main content
Springer Nature Link
Log in

What Is the Economic Meaning of FDH? A Reply to Thrall

  • Published:
Journal of Productivity Analysis Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Subscribe and save

Springer+ Basic
$34.99 /Month
  • Get 10 units per month
  • Download Article/Chapter or eBook
  • 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe now

Buy Now

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Banker, R. D., A. Charnes, and W. W. Cooper. (1984). “Some Models for Estimating Technical and Scale Inefficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis.” Management Science 30, 1078-1092.

    Google Scholar 

  • Banker, R.D., and A. Maindiratta. (1988). “Nonparametric Analysis of Technical and Allocative Efficiencies in Production.” Econometrica 56, 1315-1332.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chambers, R.G., Y. Chung, and R. Färe. (1998). “Profit, Efficiency and Nermovian Efficiency.” Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 98, 351-364.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dekker, D.J., and G.T. Post. (1999). “A Quasi-Concave DEA Model with an Application for Bank Branch Performance Evaluation.” Rotterdam Institute for Business Economics Studies (RIBES) Working Paper 9906, ISBN 90-5086-319-1.

  • Deprins, D., L. Simar, and H. Tulkens. (1984). “Measuring Labor Efficiency in Post Offices.” In M. Marchand, P. Pestieau and H. Tulkens (eds.), The Performance of Public Enterprises: Concepts and Measurements. Amsterdam: North Holland.

  • Diewert, E. (1978). “Duality Approaches to Microeconomic Theory.” In K. J. Arrow and M. D. Intriligator (eds.), Handbook of Mathemetical Economics Volume 2. Amsterdam: North-Holland.

  • Farrell, M. J. (1957). “The Measurement of Productive Efficiency.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 120, 253-281.

    Google Scholar 

  • Färe, R., and S. Grosskopf. (1983). “Measuring Congestion in Production.” Zeischrift fur Nationalökonomie 43, 257-271.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hasenkamp, G. (1976). “AStudy of Multiple-Output Production Functions.” Journal of Econometrics 4, 253-262.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kuosmanen, T. (1998). “Data Envelopment Analysis of Non-Convex Technology: With an Application to Finnish Super League Pesis Players.” Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration Working Papers W-224.

  • Kuosmanen, T., and G. T. Post. (1999). “Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis under Uncertainty: A First-Order Stochastic Dominance Approach.” Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration Working Paper W-230.

  • McFadden, D. (1978). “Cost, Revenue and Profit Functions.” In M. Fuss and D. McFadden (eds.), Production Economics: A Dual Approach to Theory and Applications. Amsterdam: North-Holland.

  • Nerlove, M. (1965). Estimation and Identification of Cobb-Douglas Production Functions. Chicago: Rand McNally.

    Google Scholar 

  • Park, B., L. Simar, and C. Weiner. (1997). “FDH Efficiency Scores from a Stochastic Point of View.” Econometric Theory, forthcoming.

  • Simar, L., and P. Wilson (1998). “Sensitivity Analysis of Efficiency Scores: How to Bootstrap in Non-parametric Frontier Models.” Management Science 44, 49-61.

    Google Scholar 

  • Thanassoulis, E., and R. Allen. (1998). “Simulating Weight Restrictions in Data Envelopment Analysis.” Management Science 44, 586-594.

    Google Scholar 

  • Thrall, R.M. (1999). “What is the Economic Meaning of FDH?” Journal of Productivity Analysis 11, 243-250.

    Google Scholar 

  • Thiry, B., and H. Tulkens. (1992). “Allowing for technical Inefficiency in Parametric estimation of Production Functions for Urban Transit Firms.” Journal of Productivity Analysis 3, 45-65.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tulkens, H. (1993). “On FDH Analysis: Some Methodological Issues and Applications to Retail Banking, Courts and Urban Transit.” Journal of Productivity Analysis 4,183-210.

    Google Scholar 

  • Varian, H. (1984). “The Nonparametric Approach to Production Analysis.” Econometrica 50, 945-974.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Centre for Economic Studies, Catholic University of Leuven, Naamsestraat 69, 3000, Leuven, BELGIUM

    Laurens Cherchye

  2. Department of Economics and Management Science, Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, P.O. Box 1210, FIN-00101, Helsinki, FINLAND

    Timo Kuosmanen

  3. Department of Finance, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burg. Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA, Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS

    Thierry Post

Authors
  1. Laurens Cherchye
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar

  2. Timo Kuosmanen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar

  3. Thierry Post
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Cherchye, L., Kuosmanen, T. & Post, T. What Is the Economic Meaning of FDH? A Reply to Thrall. Journal of Productivity Analysis 13, 263–267 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007827126369

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007827126369

Keywords