Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Conceptual background: firms’ objectives, decision variables and economic efficiency -- Part I -- Chapter 3: Shephard’s input and output distance functions: cost and revenue efficiency decompositions -- Chapter 4: The generalized distance function (GDF):...

Chapter 1. Data Envelopment Analysis and Big Data: Revisit with a Faster Method -- Chapter 2. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA): Algorithms, Computations, and Geometry -- Chapter 3. An Introduction to Data Science and Its Applications: an Introduction to Data Science and Its Applications --...

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...

Chapter 1. Estimating Efficiency in the Presence of Extreme Outliers: A Logistic-Half Normal Stochastic Frontier Model with Application to Highway Maintenance Costs in England -- Chapter 2. Alternative User Costs, Productivity and Inequality in US Business Sectors -- Chapter 3. On the Allocation...