Measuring Technical Efficiency of Cars: A Field Investigation in the Italian Domestic Market

DOI

10.2991/icemss.2013.61How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis, car, technical efficiency, product technical value, benchmarking

Abstract

This paper implemented Data Envelopment Analysis to develop a measure of technical efficiency (TE) for a car. The measurement of TE uses published technical data and judgements by industry experts. It is assumed that the technical value of a car is a function of a functional feature performance set of the product delivered to users when bearing some usage and ownership costs. TE is calculated for a sample of 216 cars sold in the Italian market from the 1970s to the early 1990s.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TI  - Measuring Technical Efficiency of Cars: A Field Investigation in the Italian Domestic Market
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Education, Management and Social Science (ICEMSS-13)
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