Application of the Non-Parametric DEA Method to Analyze the Efficiency of Selected Services Provided by Municipalities, Example of Public Libraries
Application of the Non-Parametric DEA Method to Analyze the Efficiency of Selected Services Provided by Municipalities, Example of Public Libraries

Author(s): Marek Jetmar
Subject(s): Library operations and management, Methodology and research technology
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Technical efficiency; DEA local services; municipalities; public libraries;
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the possibility of applying the DEA method to measure the efficiency of local public services provided by municipalities and towns in the Czech Republic. It is testing and modeling data on the effectiveness of local libraries, which for 100 years had to provide basic education and disseminate education in municipalities. There are many models in the literature dealing with various problems of efficiency analysis. A particularly suitable and elegant model is the DEA model based on Chebyshev distance. This model can be formulated with both the assumption of constant range returns and the assumption of variable range returns. Similar to the classical DEA model, this method can be formulated as a set of optimization problems looking for weights for given inputs and outputs.

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