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 … production and operations management. The existing models for measuring the efficiency of systems of specific network structures …

Introduction -- Data Envelopment Analysis -- DEA in the Public Sector -- Input-Oriented Efficiency Measures in … Australian Schools -- Output-Oriented Efficiency Measures in Australian School -- Productivity Measurement. … Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book focuses on estimation of technical, allocative and scale efficiency in the public …

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. … efficiency analysis. It showcases a selection of the best papers from the 9th North American Productivity Workshop. These papers …

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 … discussed. Of special interest is the systematic use of detailed empirical applications using real-world data throughout the …

nations, significantly changing the market structure and world trade, and challenging the competitive equilibrium and their … guiding principles. In the world of innovations and spill-over of R&D effects, various forms of non-competitive market …&D investment and Solow-type technical progress, using the non-parametric methods of efficiency analysis, also known as Data …

measures can be viewed as measures of productivity and/or efficiency. Linking fields as diverse as index number theory, data … change can be decomposed into measures of technical progress, environmental change, and different types of efficiency change …. The book is aimed at graduate students, researchers, statisticians, accountants and economists working in universities …