Advanced Mathematical Methods for Economic Efficiency Analysis : Theory and Empirical Applications

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter 2. Production Economics and Economic Efficiency (Mónica Meireles) -- Chapter 3. Data Envelopment Analysis: A Review and Synthesis (Ana S. Camanho) -- Chapter 4. Stochastic Frontier Analysis: A Review and Synthesis (Mara Madaleno) -- Part II -- Chapter 5. Combining Directional Distances and ELECTRE Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Preferable Assessments of Efficiency (Thyago Nepomuceno) -- Chapter 6. Benefit-of-the-Doubt Composite Indicators and use of Weight Restrictions (Ana S. Camanho) -- Chapter 7. Multidirectional Dynamic Inefficiency Analysis: An Extension to Include Corporate Social Responsibility (Magdalena Kapelko) -- Chapter 8. Stochastic DEA (Samah Jradi) -- Chapter 9. Internal Benchmarking for Efficiency Evaluations using Data Envelopment Analysis: A Review of Applications and Directions for Future Research (Fabio Sartori Piran) -- Part III -- Chapter 10. Recent Advances in the Construction of Nonparametric Stochastic Frontier Models (Christopher F. Parmeter) -- Chapter 11. A Hierarchical Panel Data Model for the Estimation of Stochastic Metafrontiers: Computational Issues and an Empirical Application (Christine Amsler) -- Chapter 12. Robustness in Stochastic Frontier Analysis (Alexander D. Stead) -- Chapter 13. Is it MOLS or COLS? (Christopher F. Parmeter) -- Chapter 14. Stochastic Frontier Analysis with Maximum Entropy Estimation (Pedro Macedo).