Economists have long studied the efficiency of firms, industries, and entire economies. This volume brings together … leading scholars to make connections between efficiency and a number of diverse areas of current interest to economists …, including an examination of the efficiency of tax systems across generations that overlap, and the efficiency of firm mergers …

, production theory and efficiency measurement in economics, management science, operations research, public administration, and … Capital Stock using Spatial Frontier Analyses: A First Look at the Data -- Dynamic Technical Efficiency.- Analysing Labour … Productivity in Ecuador -- Hierarchical performance and unobservable heterogeneity in health: A dual-level efficiency approach …

on theoretical and empirical research in areas including productivity, production theory and efficiency measurement in …Chapter 1. Estimating Efficiency in the Presence of Extreme Outliers: A Logistic-Half Normal Stochastic Frontier Model … -- Chapter 14. Quantile DEA: Estimating qDEA-alpha Efficiency Estimates with Conventional Linear Programming. …

Introduction: Theme, Objectives and Structure of the Book -- Methodology: Frontier Efficiency Measurement Techniques … -- Literature Review on Efficiency Studies in the Public Sector -- Applications to German Local Governments -- Summary and …

Marketingmanager stehen zunehmend in der Pflicht, die Effizienz von Marketingaktivitäten zu messen, indem sie die …

Identification of Performance Measurement Systems Applied in Polish Enterprises -- The Impact on the Organisational … Business Units -- The Impact of Intellectual Capital Efficiency on the Profitability of Agricultural Enterprises -- Tripartite … Real?- The Relevance of Context for Goodwill Impairment Decisions Within Hall's Framework -- Efficiency Evaluation Criteria …

considerable expertise to the project in the area of performance measurement. Numerous topics are being added and more applications …The second edition of An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis is designed to be a general introduction … for those who wish to study efficiency and productivity analysis. The book provides an accessible, well …

Efficiency Indicators And Indexes -- The Nerlovian Profit Indicator -- The Revenue Efficiency Indicator -- Cost … Efficiency Indicator -- Efficiency Indexes -- From Indicators to Indexes -- Hyperbolic Efficiency -- Remarks on the Literature … Aggregation -- Aggregating Farrell Efficiency Indexes -- Luenberger Productivity Indicators -- Aggregation Across Inputs and …

Competition and Efficiency in the Mexican Banking Industry contributes to the understanding of competition policy in … the Mexican banking system and explains how levels of competition relate to the efficiency of banks …