Atkinson, Scott E; Cornwell, Christopher; Honerkamp, Olaf - In: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 21 (2003) 2, pp. 284-94
Measuring productivity change with Malmquist indices has become common practice, because they are easily computed using nonparametric programming techniques and can be readily decomposed into technical and efficiency change. However, this approach is nonstochastic and requires a constant returns...