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Creating efficiency measures
- Complex statistics
- DEA
- Adjusts for scale economies, etc.
- Theoretically driven
- Methodology subject to many criticisms
- Simple approaches
- Divide (output per input)
- Hard with multiple outputs (could 'score')
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