Efficiency Measurement in the Public Sector: An Appraisal

Measuring the efficiency of decision making units

A. Charnes, W. W. Cooper, Edwardo L. Rhodes · European Journal of Operational Research · 1978 · 28.3K citations · Full text

The Measurement of Productive Efficiency

Mariah Farrell · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General) · 1957 · 15.9K citations

Productivity, Resource Productivity, Economics +6

Formulation and estimation of stochastic frontier production function models

Dennis J. Aigner, C. A. Knox Lovell, Peter Schmidt · Journal of Econometrics · 1977 · 10K citations

Productivity, Dynamic Economic Model, Economics +6

Efficiency Estimation from Cobb-Douglas Production Functions with Composed Error

Wim Meeusen, Julien van den Broeck · International Economic Review · 1977 · 6.2K citations

Productivity, Production Planning, Mathematical Programming +10

On the estimation of technical inefficiency in the stochastic frontier production function model

James M. Jondrow, C. A. Knox Lovell, Ivan S. Materov et al. · Journal of Econometrics · 1982 · 3.4K citations

Productivity, Resource Productivity, Economics +15