Benefit and Distance Functions

The Economic Theory of Index Numbers and the Measurement of Input, Output, and Productivity

Douglas W. Caves, Laurits R. Christensen, W. Erwin Diewert · Econometrica · 1982 · 3.8K citations

Agriculture, Business Economics, Economics +14

Benefit functions and duality

David G. Luenberger · Journal of Mathematical Economics · 1992 · 557 citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Benefit-cost Analysis +7

New optimality principles for economic efficiency and equilibrium

David G. Luenberger · Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications · 1992 · 285 citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Mathematics +12

A Theoretical Treatment of Indices of Absolute Inequality

Charles Blackorby, David Donaldson · International Economic Review · 1980 · 255 citations

Social Sciences, Mathematics, Social Inequality +4

A distance function approach to price efficiency

Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf · Journal of Public Economics · 1990 · 113 citations

Business, Business Economics, Economics +11