Shephard’s distance functions are widely used instruments for characterizing technology and for estimating efficiency …

In this study, we explore the pattern of efficiency among enterprises in China’s 29 provinces across different … efficiency distributions, and conducting a bootstrapped truncated regression analysis. We find evidence of interesting … differences in efficiency levels among various ownership groups, especially for foreign and local ownership, which have different …

) two-stage efficiency analysis model. …

This paper develops two cost decompositions based on the multiplicative and additive Russell efficiency measurement … decomposition we develop in this paper incorporates slacks directly so that efficiency is measured relative to the efficient subset …

In this paper we show that in order to aggregate individual efficiency scores into a group (e.g., industry) efficiency … Farrell-type efficiency scores. …

The challenge of the econometric problem in production efficiency analysis is that the very efficiency scores to be …-grounded statistical inference about the true efficiency scores from their DEA-estimates. In this paper we investigate possibility of using …

The last two decades have witnessed a revival in interest in the measurement of productive efficiency pioneered by … Farrell technical efficiency in terms of axiomatic production and index number theory in Fare and (1978). These papers have … inspired many others to apply these methods and to add to the debate on how best to define technical efficiency. …