Over the years, a large number of indexes of technological inefficiency have been specified, and a spate of papers has examined the properties satisfied by these indexes. This paper approaches the subject more synthetically, presenting generic results on classes of indexes and their properties....

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...

We show that the Hotelling-Lau elasticity of substitution, an extension of the Allen-Uzawa elasticity to allow for optimal output-quantity (or utility) responses to changes in factor prices, inherits all of the failings of the Allen-Uzawa elasticity identified by Blackorby and Russell [1989...

This note extends Gorman's [1959] classic result on two-stage budgeting to encompass the two-group cases that he assumed away. The proof, which exploits unpublished and recently published results not available to Gorman in 1959, makes it apparent that the entire structure needed for two-stage...