This book provides a detailed insight into productivity, efficiency and growth in the Chinese economy, and offers …

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 … Inequality -- Chapter 4. Frontier Estimation of a Cost Function System Model with Local Least Squares: An Application to Dutch …

, estimation and aggregation of efficiency indices. …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 …

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 …

today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative … the growth prospects of countries. Thereby it shows that protectionism not only harms static efficiency but might as well …

. Aktivitätsveränderungen auf und gibt dem Leser eine Antwort auf die Frage „Wie sich Effizienz und Produktivität bei Aktivitätsänderungen … verhalten“. Im klassischen Selbstbewertungsfall demonstriert er anhand von deutschen Dreispartentheatern, dass sowohl Effizienz … können Verbesserungsbemühungen hingegen in einem Zielkonflikt zwischen Effizienz und Produktivität münden – die jeweiligen …