This volume offers a collection of studies on problem of organization’s efficiency, criteria for evaluating the … efficiency, tools and methods for measuring the efficiency. The articles included present an interdisciplinary look at efficiency … achieving efficiency in various types of organizations and systems (e.g. public institution, non-profit organizations …

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 …

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 …

-- Welfare and Efficiency: Inequality, Efficiency, and the Production Sphere -- Efficiency and Welfare -- Information Incentives …Increasing efficiency in generating national income and improving equity in its distribution among economic agents is … welfare function under certain constraints which consider both efficiency and equity, i.e. taxes and subsidies, implemented by …