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标题：Axiomatic Foundations of Ineﬃciency Measurement on hinput, outputi Space
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作者：R. Robert Russell William Schworm
期刊名称：Discussion Papers / School of Business, University of New South Wales
出版年度：2009
卷号：2009
出版社：Sydney
摘要：We provide an axiomatic foundation for eﬃciency measurement in the full hinput, outputi space, referred to as “graph eﬃciency” measurement by F¨are, Grosskopf, and Lovell [1985]. We posit four types of axioms: indication, monotonicity, independence of units of measurement, and continuity. We analyze six well-known ineﬃciency indexes from the operations-research and economics literature and discuss several other related indexes. We present two impossibility results demonstrating that no index can satisfy all of the axioms on a general class of (well-behaved) technologies. Speciﬁcally, no ineﬃciency index can satisfy both indication and continuity (in either quantities or technologies), and no ineﬃciency index can satisfy both monotonicity and unit independence. We present a full evaluation of the trade-oﬀs involved in selecting among the indexes.
关键词：Technical eﬃciency indexes; technical eﬃciency axioms.