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. …

measures can be viewed as measures of productivity and/or efficiency. Linking fields as diverse as index number theory, data … change that are consistent with measurement theory. It then discusses ways in which meaningful measures of productivity … change can be decomposed into measures of technical progress, environmental change, and different types of efficiency change …

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

. 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 …

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 and productivity analysis in a well-motivated presentation. (3) It provides detailed advice on computer programs that …

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 …

administrators, it is divided into two sections covering methods and applications. Section I considers efficiency evaluations using …, including super-efficiency, congestion DEA, network DEA, and dynamic network models. Mathematical formulations of various DEA …

This book presents the underlying theory, model development, and applications of network Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA … outputs when measuring system efficiency, but also the internal structure of the system being analyzed. By analyzing the … efficiency of individual internal components, and more particularly by studying the effects of relationships among components …