The measurement of productive efficiency and productivity growth /

Contributor(s): Fried, Harold O | Lovell, C. A. Knox | Schmidt, Shelton SMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2008Description: xiv, 638 p. : illISBN: 9780195183528 (cloth : alk. paper); 0195183525 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Industrial efficiency | Industrial productivityDDC classification: 338.5 Online resources: Click here to access online
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.
Summary: "This book provides an introduction to the field of efficiency and productivity analysis. It guides readers from the basic models to the latest, cutting-edge extensions and is reinforced by references to classic and current theoretical and applied research. The five chapters are written by internationally recognized authorities in their subject areas. Each chapter begins at an accessible elementary level and progresses to the current state of the art, with references to the essential works."--Jacket.
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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.


"This book provides an introduction to the field of efficiency and productivity analysis. It guides readers from the basic models to the latest, cutting-edge extensions and is reinforced by references to classic and current theoretical and applied research. The five chapters are written by internationally recognized authorities in their subject areas. Each chapter begins at an accessible elementary level and progresses to the current state of the art, with references to the essential works."--Jacket.

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