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The Remarkable Incidence of Congestion in Production: A Review, Empirical Illustration, and Research Agenda

Author(s) -

Kristiaan Kerstens,

Ignace Van de Woestyne

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

data envelopment analysis journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2161-1823

pISSN - 2161-1815

DOI - 10.1561/103.00000026

Subject(s) - empirical research , production (economics) , incidence (geometry) , regional science , economic geography , political science , sociology , economics , epistemology , macroeconomics , mathematics , philosophy , geometry

Abstract

This contribution surveys the existing economic literature measuring congestion using nonparametric specifications of technologies. The focus is on the magnitude and especially the incidence of the congestion detected using traditional radial input-oriented efficiency measures. Furthermore, it shows the limitations of this radial measurement and how alternative measurement schemes may reveal higher amounts of congestion. This is empirically illustrated using a variety of secondary data sets (which guarantees replicability of our results).

DOI:10.1561/103.26

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