Advances in Efficiency and Productivity II

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. New Definitions of Economic Cross-Efficiency -- Chapter 3. Evaluating Efficiency in Non-Homogeneous Environments -- Chapter 4. Testing Positive Endogeneity in Inputs in Data Envelopment Analysis -- Chapter 5. Modelling Pollution-Generating Technologies: A Numerical Comparison of Non-Parametric Approaches -- Chapter 6. On the Estimation of Educational Technical Efficiency from Sample Designs: A New Methodology using Robust Nonparametric Models -- Chapter 7. Local Circularity of Six Classic Price Indexes -- Chapter 8. Robust DEA efficiency scores: A heuristic for the combinatorial/probabilistic approach -- Chapter 9. Corporate Social Responsibility and Firms’ Dynamic Productivity Change -- Chapter 10. A Novel Two-Phase Approach to Computing a Regional Social Progress Index -- Chapter 11. A Two-Level Top-Down Decomposition of Aggregate Productivity Growth: The Role of Infrastructure -- Chapter 12. European energy efficiency evaluation based on the use of super efficiency under undesirable outputs in SBM models -- Chapter 13. Probability of Default and Banking Efficiency. How Does the Market Respond?- Chapter 14. Measuring Global Municipal Performance in Heterogeneous Contexts: A Semi-Nonparametric Frontier Approach -- Chapter 15. The Impact of Land Consolidation on Livestock Production in Asturias´ Parishes: A Spatial Production Analysis.