Document Type

Post-Print

Publication Date

4-1-2001

Subjects

Data envelopment analysis, Decision making

Abstract

Cross-evaluation has been touted as a powerful extension of Data Envelopment Analysis that provides, not only a unique ordering among the Decision Making Units (DMUs), but also eliminates unrealistic weighting schemes without requiring the elicitation of weight restrictions from application area experts. The goal of this paper is to prove, in the single-input, multiple-output case, cross-evaluation implicitly uses a single fixed set of weights. We demonstrate how this unseen fixed set of weights may still be unrealistic.

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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Productivity Analysis. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication.

A definitive version was subsequently published in the Journal of Productivity Analysis Vol. 17, No. 3 (May, 2002), pp. 249-255 and is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1015012121760

DOI

10.1023/A:1015012121760

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/9260

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