University of South Florida Scholar Commons Graduate Theses and Dissertations Graduate School January 2013 Measuring Technical Efficiency of the Japanese Professional Football (Soccer) League (J1 and J2) Dan Zhao University of South Florida,
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[email protected]. Measuring Technical Efficiency of the Japanese Professional Football (Soccer) League (J1 and J2) by Dan Zhao A dissertation defense submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Economics College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida Co-Major Professor: Yi Deng, Ph.D. Co-Major Professor: Philip Porter, Ph.D. Gabriel Picone, Ph.D. Murat Munkin, Ph.D. Date of Approval: November 19th, 2013 Keywords: Microeconomics, Productivity and Efficiency, Sports Economics, Data Envelopment Analysis, Malmquist Index © 2013, Dan Zhao Acknowledgments I would like to express my sincerest thanks to the members of my dissertation committee: Dr. Yi Deng, Dr. Philip Porter, Dr. Gabriel Picone, and Dr. Murat Munkin for their guidance, understanding, patience, and ideas during my graduate studies at the University of South Florida.