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Two-Stage DEA: Caveat Emptor

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Simar, Léopold [UCL] Wilson, Paul W. [Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA]

This paper examines the wide-spread practice where data envelopment analysis (DEA) efficiency estimates are regressed on some environmental variables in a second-stage analysis. In the literature, only two statistical models have been proposed in which second-stage regressions are well-defined and meaningful. In the model considered by Simar and Wilson (J Prod Anal 13:49–78, 2007), truncated regression provides consistent estimation in the second stage, where as in the model proposed by Banker and Natarajan (Oper Res 56: 48–58, 2008a), ordinary least squares (OLS) provides consistent estimation. This paper examines, compares, and contrasts the very different assumptions underlying these two models, and makes clear that second-stage OLS estimation is consistent only under very peculiar and unusual assumptions on the data-generating process that limit its applicability. In addition, we show that in either case, bootstrap methods provide the only feasible means for inference in the second stage. We also comment on ad hoc specifications of second-stage regression equations that ignore the part of the data-generating process that yields data used to obtain the initial DEA estimates.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2011
Language Anglais
Journal information "Journal of Productivity Analysis" - Vol. 36, no. 2, p. 205-218 (2011)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Springer New York LLC ((United States) New York)
issn 0895-562X
e-issn 1573-0441
Publication status Publié
Affiliations UCL - SSH/LIDAM/ISBA - Institut de Statistique, Biostatistique et Sciences Actuarielles
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA - The John E. Walker Department of Economics
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Bibliographic reference Simar, Léopold ; Wilson, Paul W.. Two-Stage DEA: Caveat Emptor. In: Journal of Productivity Analysis, Vol. 36, no. 2, p. 205-218 (2011)
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