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6. Asymptotic Properties of Some Non-Parametric Hyperbolic Efficiency Estimators

Author : Paul W. Wilson

Published in: Exploring Research Frontiers in Contemporary Statistics and Econometrics

Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD

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A hyperbolic measure of technical efficiency was proposed by Fare et al. (The Measurement of Efficiency of Production, Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishing, Boston, 1985) wherein efficiency is measured by the simultaneous maximum, feasible reduction in input quantities and increase in output quantities. In cases where returns to scale are not constant, the non-parametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) estimator of hyperbolic efficiency cannot be written as a linear program; consequently, the measure has not been used in empirical studies except where returns to scale are constant, allowing the estimator to be computed by linear programming methods. This paper develops an alternative estimator of the hyperbolic measure proposed by Fare et al. (The Measurement of Efficiency of Production, Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishing, Boston, 1985). Statistical consistency and rates of convergence are established for the new estimator. A numerical procedure allowing computation of the original estimator is provided, and this estimator is also shown to be consistent, with the same rate of convergence as the new estimator. In addition, an unconditional, hyperbolic order-m efficiency estimator is developed by extending the ideas of Cazals et al. (J. Econometric. 106:1–25, 2002). Asymptotic properties of this estimator are also given.

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previous chapter Panel Data, Factor Models, and the Solow Residual

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See Simar and Wilson (2000b) for a survey, and Kneip et al. (2008) for more recent results, on the statistical properties of DEA estimators. See Simar and Wilson (1998, 2000a) and Kneip et al. (2008, 2011) for details about the use of bootstrap methods to make inferences based on DEA.

One can find numerous published applications of DEA to datasets with 50–150 observations and 5 or more dimensions in the input-output space. DEA-based inefficiency estimates from such studies are likely meaningless in a statistical sense due to the curse of dimensionality problem (see Simar and Wilson (2000b) for discussion).

Wheelock and Wilson (2008) also derived asymptotic properties for a hyperbolic FDH efficiency estimator.

The Farrell (1957) input and output distance functions defined in (6.7)–(6.9) are reciprocals of the corresponding Shephard (1970) measures.

Alternatively, one might consider estimating the directional distance function

$$\varphi (x,y) =\sup \{ \varphi \mid ((1 - \varphi )x, (1 + \varphi )y) \in \mathcal{P}\},$$

which is a special case of the general directional distance function proposed by Chambers et al. (1996). While this distance function can be estimated by linear programming methods, proofs of asymptotic properties such as consistency, rate of convergence, etc. remain elusive.

In cases where CRS is assumed, the constraint ${\sum \nolimits }_{i=1}^{n}{\delta }_{i} = 1$ is omitted from (6.42). In such cases, efficiency is estimated in terms of distance to the boundary of the convex cone of the sample observations, as opposed to the convex hull (of the free-disposal hull) of the sample observations.

Wheelock and Wilson (2008) gave a numerical algorithm for computing their unconditional, hyperbolic order-α quantile efficiency estimator. When α = 1, their estimator is equivalent to (6.61) and (6.62). Typically, computing $\widehat{{H}}_{n}(x,y)$ using (6.61) will be faster than setting α = 1 and applying the numerical algorithm given in Wheelock and Wilson.

To see this, replace x in (6.60) with w, set q = 1, y = 0, and replace p with (p + q). The resulting expression is equivalent to (6.65).

Recall that for any natural number d, a unit d-sphere is the set of points in (d + 1)-dimensional Euclidean space lying at distance one from a central point; the set of points comprises a d-dimensional manifold in Euclidean (d + 1)-space.

The notation Exp(3) denotes an exponential distribution with parameter 3; hence $E(\nu ) = 1/3$.

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Title: Asymptotic Properties of Some Non-Parametric Hyperbolic Efficiency Estimators
Author: Paul W. Wilson
Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD
Book: Exploring Research Frontiers in Contemporary Statistics and Econometrics
Print ISBN: 978-3-7908-2348-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-7908-2349-3

Copyright Year: 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2349-3_6

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