UNIVERSITA' CA' FOSCARI di VENEZIA

Dino Rizzi Professor of Public Finance  DEPARTMENT of ECONOMICS  Fondamenta S. Giobbe, Cannaregio 873 - 30121 Venezia - Italy

DEPARTMENT of ECONOMICS

Papers

• Rizzi Dino - "The Efficiency of the University of Venice Departments via DEA and DFA", Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Working Paper 99.09. October 1999.
• Rizzi Dino - "A utility-frontier production function approach for the efficiency measurement of multi-output public and non-profit organisations", Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Working paper 2000-09, September 2000.

Free Software: Program UFPF
UFPF - Utility & Frontier Production Function is a computer program for the estimation of deterministic frontier production functions (COLS method) for multi-output multi-input production. The Utility-Frontier approach is described in Rizzi D. "A utility-frontier production function approach for the efficiency measurement of multi-output public and non-profit organisations".

Download
User Manual: UFPF-Manual.pdf
Source File: UFPF.for (Lahey Fortran 90 - LF90 Version 4.50)
Dos executable program: UFPF.exe
Examples files: UFPF-Example.zip (with runtime error message file LF90.EER)

Useful Links

CEPA - Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia
              CEPA Home Page
              CEPA Computer Software - FRONTIER Version 4.1 - DEAP Version 2.1 - TFPIP Version 1.0.

Euro-DEAPM  (Euro Working Group in Data Envelopment Analysis and Performance Measurement)

Ali Emrouznejad's DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) Home page

Warwick DEA-Software