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Efficient and Super-Efficient Use of Broadband Access by the US States

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In an earlier study, Parajuli and Haynes (Growth and Change 43:590–614, 2012) used Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to assess efficiency of broadband utilization across US states. They found that a number of states in the USA assumed an efficiency score of one for broadband adoption and use. While this is not unusual, the commonly used DEA methods—the Charnes, Coopers, and Rhodes and the Banker, Charnes, and Cooper extension—do not rank relative efficient decision-making units (DMUs) across the efficient frontier. The super-efficiency estimation presented here is one method that overcomes this inherent limitation and allows for ranking the efficient DMUs. This paper uses a super-efficiency method to rank states that were efficient in broadband adoption and use in the USA from 2005 through 2007.

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Parajuli, J., Haynes, K.E. (2020). Efficient and Super-Efficient Use of Broadband Access by the US States. In: Thill, JC. (eds) Innovations in Urban and Regional Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43694-0_15

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