Scale elasticity in the presence of integer data: An application to electricity distribution companies

Returns to scale and scale elasticity are two important issues in the field of economics and operations research. Recently, estimating returns to scale and scale elasticity using tools such as data envelopment analysis (DEA) has attracted considerable attention among researchers. The existing approaches to calculate scale elasticity in DEA context, assume all inputs and outputs are real-valued and in this sense, the underlying technology is a continuous set. In many real cases, however, we face input/output measures that are restricted to be integer-valued. Scale properties of frontier points in such cases are interesting and important. In this paper, this problem in integer-valued DEA is studied. The Lagrangian dual formulation of a mixed integer linear programming problem is used to calculate the scale elasticity of a frontier point. To illustrate the real applicability of the theoretical framework, a real case on electricity distribution companies is given.

Scale elasticity in the presence of integer data: An application to electricity distribution companies

Returns to scale and scale elasticity are two important issues in the field of economics and operations research. Recently, estimating returns to scale and scale elasticity using tools such as data envelopment analysis (DEA) has attracted considerable attention among researchers. The existing approaches to calculate scale elasticity in DEA context, assume all inputs and outputs are real-valued and in this sense, the underlying technology is a continuous set. In many real cases, however, we face input/output measures that are restricted to be integer-valued. Scale properties of frontier points in such cases are interesting and important. In this paper, this problem in integer-valued DEA is studied. The Lagrangian dual formulation of a mixed integer linear programming problem is used to calculate the scale elasticity of a frontier point. To illustrate the real applicability of the theoretical framework, a real case on electricity distribution companies is given.

Alternative Trade-Offs in Data Envelopment Analysis: An Application to Hydropower Plants

In multidimensional input/output space, the behavior of the firms can be analyzed by using efficient frontier or supporting surfaces of production technology. To this end, mathematicians are interested to use marginal rates of substitutions. The piecewise linear frontier of data envelopment analysis (DEA) technology is not differentiable at the extreme points and marginal rates calculation is valid only for small changes in one or more variables. The existing trade-off analysis methods calculate the maximum changes in a specific throughput when another throughput is changed. We will show that binding efficient supporting surfaces of an efficient point may be used to define different marginal rates of substitutions and in this sense, we get different marginal rates to each frontier point.

Error Estimation of Functions by Fourier-Laguerre Polynomials Using Matrix-Euler Operators

Various investigators have studied the degree of approximation of a function using different summability (Cesáro means of order α: Cα, Euler Eq, and Nörlund Np) means of its Fourier-Laguerre series at the point x=0 after replacing the continuity condition in Szegö theorem by much lighter conditions. The product summability methods are more powerful than the individual summability methods and thus give an approximation for wider class of functions than the individual methods. This has motivated us to investigate the error estimation of a function by (T·Eq)-transform of its Fourier-Laguerre series at frontier point x=0, where T is a general lower triangular regular matrix. A particular case, when T is a Cesáro matrix of order 1, that is, C1, has also been discussed as a corollary of main result.

A Study on Degree of Approximation by Summability Means of the Fourier-Laguerre Expansion

A very new theorem on the degree of approximation of the generating function by means of its Fourier-Laguerre series at the frontier point is obtained.

Some types of regularity for the Dirichlet problem

The question of whether the existence of a harmonic majorant in a relative neighbourhood of each point of a boundary of a domain D implies the existence of a harmonic majorant in the whole of D has received great attention in recent years and has been dealt with by several authors in different settings. The most general results to date have been achieved in [10] with the Martin boundary. In [9], the author arrives, by independent means, at the conclusions of [10] in the particular case where D is a Lipschitz domain.In this paper, we answer the question in domains with suitably regular topological frontiers. Our methods rely heavily on the possibility of obtaining an extented-representation for nonnegative superharmonic functions defined near a frontier point. This naturally led to the introduction and the study of new types of regularity for the generalised Dirichlet problem. As well as their suitability in dealing with the question of harmonic majorisation, they present an intrinsic importance as natural extensions of the (classical) regularity. For simplicity reasons, we will treat the finite boundary points and the point at infinity separately.

Evans-Kuramochi Exhaustion Functions on Non-Algebroid Riemann Surfaces

Let denote a non-compact parabolic Riemann surface, and let be compact and such that each frontier point of D is contained in a continuum that is also contained in D.