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. …

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 …

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 …

, production theory and efficiency measurement in economics, management science, operations research, public administration, and … Capital Stock using Spatial Frontier Analyses: A First Look at the Data -- Dynamic Technical Efficiency.- Analysing Labour … Productivity in Ecuador -- Hierarchical performance and unobservable heterogeneity in health: A dual-level efficiency approach …

An Overview of the Pharmaceutical Sector in India -- The sources of Heterogenity in the Efficiency of Indian … Pharmaceutical Firms -- Comparing Efficiency Across Various Groups of Firms: A Meta-Frontier Approach -- Examining the Efficiency … envelopment analysis (DEA), a useful technique for understanding productivity and efficiency. It can provide guidance to the …

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 …

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

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 …