Abstract:Differential characteristics of the production function represent elasticity measures and marginal rates of production technologies; in particular, marginal productivity (MP) plays an important role in economic theory and applications. This study provides a theoretical foundation of directional marginal productivity (DMP) supporting the meta-data envelopment analysis (meta-DEA) which measures the efficiency via marginal-profitmaximized orientation. In addition, the segmented marginal rate of technical substitu… Show more
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