Primal and dual DEA measures of capacity utilization

Summary form only given as follows. This paper extends earlier work on specification of output capacity and utilization in an output oriented data envelopment analysis (DEA) framework (which we refer to as primal approach) to what we call a dual approach, which introduces input prices and cost. This provides a link to the traditional measures of capacity in the economics literature based on cost functions. This also provides several alternative DEA options for applied work.