Using the nonparametric approach of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), this paper examines firm’s heterogeneity in the Indian pharmaceutical industry by measuring their input and output efficiencies for the period 1991 to 2005. The analysis establishes that even though firms have been able to...

Even when a developing country moves towards a market economy characterised by competitive prices, there are several goods like water, essential food items, infrastructure related goods and so on whose prices cannot be left to the market. When a planner fixes prices of such goods the resulting...