Bibliografía: p. 489-508.

Partial contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic DEA Models -- 3. Extensions to DEA Models -- 4. Computational Aspects of DEA / Agha Iqbal Ali -- 5. DEA Software Packages -- 6. Evaluating the Impacts of Operating Strategies on Efficiency in the U.S. Airline Industry / Rajiv D. Banker and Holly H. Johnston -- 7. Analyzing Technical and Allocative Efficiency of Hospitals / Patricia Byrnes and Vivian Valdmanis -- 8. A Multiperiod Analysis of Market Segments and Brand Efficiency in the Competitive Carbonated Beverage Industry / Abraham Chames, William W. Cooper, Boaz Golany, D.B. Learner, Fred Y. Phillips and John J. Rousseau -- 9. Exploring Why Some Physicians' Hospital Practices Are More Efficient: Taking DEA Inside the Hospital / Jon A. Chilingerian -- 10. On the Measurement and Monitoring of Relative Efficiency of Highway Maintenance Patrols / Wade D. Cook, Alex Kazakov and Yaakov Roll -- 11. Strategic leaders in the U.S. brewing industry / Diana Day -- 12. A spatial efficiency framework for the support of locational decision / Anand Desai -- 13. Productivity developments in Swedish hospitals / Rolf Fare -- 14. Ownership type, property rights and relative efficiency / Gary D. Ferrier -- 15. A comparative analysis of ferry transport in Norway / Finn R. Forsund -- 16. Incorporating standards via DEA / Boaz Golany -- 17. Stratified models of education production using modified DEA and regression analysis / C. A. Knox -- 18. The problem of new and disappearing commodities in the construction of price indexes / C. A. Knox -- 19. Evaluating the relative efficiency of baseboll players / Mark J. Mazur -- 20. Sensitivity analysis of efficiency measures with applications to Kansas farming and Illionois coal mining / Russell Thompson.