This paper extends the recent work by Frei and Harker on projections onto efficient frontiers (1999) in three ways. First, we provide a formal definition of the production set as the intersection of a finite number of closed halfspaces. We emphasize the necessity of a complete enumeration of the...

This study estimates productivity gains and their distribution among inputs and outputs for American industries over the period 1987-2011 using the traditional surplus accounting method. Total Factor Productivity (TFP) change is traditionally defined as the growth rate of output minus the growth...

The aim of this report is to identify the possible effect of covering the highway A1 at Saint-Denis (near Paris) on housing prices. This covering induces a notable reduction of the noise nuisance and an improvement of the urban environment. In order to measure the effects from covering, we have...

Various methodological improvements in production function modelling allow the integration of undesirable outputs, the distinction between stakeholders? objective-function and the sectoral aggregation of individual technologies. This paper gathers these concepts in order to assess the...

In this paper, firm profit loss is decomposed as the sum of two terms related to the output price uncertainty (price expectation error and risk preference), plus one extra term expressing technical inefficiency. We then describe the implementation of our theoretical model in a robust data...

Dans ce papier, nous proposons deux nouveaux indicateurs pour mesurer la performance opérationnelle et la performance financière des réseaux d’agences bancaires. Nous développons une approche alternative aux mesures classiques de productivité pour prendre en compte des effets de taille,...

Dans ce papier nous discutons l’adaptabilité des indicateurs de performance opérationnelle à l’environnement organisationnel, décisionnel et stratégique des entités évaluées. L’application empirique est réalisée sur une population de 1585 agences bancaires à partir de données...

The paper addresses the decomposition of firms’ profit inefficiency (i.e. the difference between the observed profit and the maximal profit that could have been earned) in a context of output price uncertainty. More precisely, we separate this inefficiency into price expectation error,...