theoretical angles, including transaction costs economics, resource-based theory, and real options theory. The book sharpens …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

governance, transparency and efficiency in the REIT market. They encourage (a) academics to include a behavioral component into …

, political science, and with philosophical reflections on the theory of Corporate Citizenship and New Governance. In view of the …

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 …

, 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 …