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...

Decompositions of Productivity Growth into Sectoral Effects: Some Puzzles Explained.- The Dynamics of Productivity Change: A Review of the Bottom-Up Approach.- A General Error Revenue Function Model with Technical Inefficiency: An Application to Norwegian Fishing Trawler.- Production Response in...

Einführung -- Zunehmender Effizienzdruck im Marketing - Doing more with less -- Konzeptionelle und theoretische Grundlagen der Effizienzanalyse -- Begrifflich-konzeptionelle Grundlagen der Effizienzanalyse -- Allgemeine theoretische Fundierung der Effizienzanalyse -- Konzeptualisierung der...

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...

This book provides a coherent description of the main concepts and statistical methods used to analyse economic performance. The focus is on measures of performance that are of practical relevance to policy makers. Most, if not all, of these measures can be viewed as measures of productivity...

This book assesses how efficient primary and upper primary education is across different states of India considering both output oriented and input oriented measures of technical efficiency. It identifies the most important factors that could produce differential efficiency among the states,...

This handbook represents a milestone in the progression of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Written by experts who are often major contributors to DEA theory, it includes a collection of chapters that represent the current state-of-the-art in DEA research. Topics include distance functions and...

Designed to provide a systematic introduction to DEA and its uses as a multifaceted tool for evaluating problems in a variety of contexts. This volume reviews the basic principles taught in the authors' successful textbook, "Data Envelopment Analysis." This package includes the book in a CD-ROM...

"Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has grown has grown into a powerful quantitative, analytical tool for measuring and evaluating performance. It has been successfully applied to a host of different entities engaged in a wide variety of activities in many complex, multi-layered contexts worldwide....

In a relatively short period of time, data envelopment analysis (DEA) has grown into a powerful analytical tool for measuring and evaluating performance. DEA is computational at its core and this book is one of several Springer aim to publish on the subject. This work deals with the micro...