We employ data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods to construct the world production frontier, which is in turn used to decompose (labor) productivity growth into components attributable to technological change (shift of the production frontier), efficiency change (movements toward or away from...

Measurement of technical efficiency is carried out at many levels of aggregation—at the individual branch, plant, division, or district level; at the company- or organization-wide level; at the industry or sectoral level; or at the economy-wide level. In this paper, we examine the conditions...

This paper presents a constraint programming approach using a modeling language and CP optimizer to aid in the coordination of the production and delivery of multi-product newspapers to bulk delivery locations. The distribution problem is modeled as an open vehicle routing problem with time...

In this paper, we examine two-level and three-level supply chains for a midsize US newspaper in the Midwest that delivers to households and businesses in over 200 zip codes that span across various states. We formally define this problem as an integrated newspaper production and distribution...

We characterize Pareto-improving and equilibrium-preserving policy reforms in a second-best (Diamond/Mirrlees) world with a consumption externality. A counterintuitive finding is that, starting from an initial equilibrium with no direct quantity control on the externality, it is possible that...