The measurement of productive efficiency and productivity growth

• Other Authors: Fried, Harold O., Lovell, C. A. Knox., Schmidt, Shelton S.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Subjects: Industrial efficiency > Measurement.; Industrial productivity > Measurement.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Microeconomics. > Economics; Electronic books.
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Applying research from the ten years since the publication of 'The Measurement of Productive Efficiency, ' this book guides readers from the basic models to the latest, cutting-edge extensions.

Table of Contents:

• Efficiency and productivity / Harold O. Fried, C.A. Knox Lovell, and Shelton S. Schmidt
• The econometric approach to efficiency analysis / William H. Greene
• Data envelopment analysis : the mathematical programming approach to efficiency analysis / Emmanuel Thanassoulis, Maria C.S. Portela, and Ozren Despić
• Statistical inference in nonparametric frontier models : recent developments and perspectives / Léopold Simar and Paul W. Wilson
• Efficiency and productivity : Malmquist and more / Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, and Dimitri Margaritis.