Advances In Efficiency And Productivity Ii

Author : Juan Aparicio,C. A. Knox Lovell,Jesus T. Pastor,Joe Zhu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030416188

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Advances in Efficiency and Productivity II by Juan Aparicio,C. A. Knox Lovell,Jesus T. Pastor,Joe Zhu Pdf

This book surveys the state-of-the-art in efficiency and productivity analysis, examining advances in the analytical foundations and empirical applications. The analytical techniques developed in this book for efficiency provide alternative ways of defining optimum outcome sets, typically as a (technical) production frontier or as an (economic) cost, revenue or profit frontier, and alternative ways of measuring efficiency relative to an appropriate frontier. Simultaneously, the analytical techniques developed for efficiency analysis extend directly to productivity analysis, thereby providing alternative methods for estimating productivity levels, and productivity change through time or productivity variation across producers. This book includes chapters using data envelopment analysis (DEA) or stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) as quantitative techniques capable of measuring efficiency and productivity. Across the book’s 15 chapters, it broadly extends into popular application areas including agriculture, banking and finance, and municipal performance, and relatively new application areas including corporate social responsibility, the value of intangible assets, land consolidation, and the measurement of economic well-being. The chapters also cover topics such as permutation tests for production frontier shifts, new indices of total factor productivity, and also randomized controlled trials and production frontiers.

Author : Christopher F. Parmeter,Robin C. Sickles
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030471064

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Advances in Efficiency and Productivity Analysis by Christopher F. Parmeter,Robin C. Sickles Pdf

The volume examines the state-of-the-art of productivity and efficiency analysis. It brings together a selection of the best papers from the 10th North American Productivity Workshop. By analyzing world-wide perspectives on challenges that local economies and institutions may face when changes in productivity are observed, readers can quickly assess the impact of productivity measurement, productivity growth, dynamics of productivity change, measures of labor productivity, measures of technical efficiency in different sectors, frontier analysis, measures of performance, industry instability and spillover effects. The contributions in this volume focus on the theory and application of economics, econometrics, statistics, management science and operational research related to problems in the areas of productivity and efficiency measurement. Popular techniques and methodologies including stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis are represented. Chapters also cover broader issues related to measuring, understanding, incentivizing and improving the productivity and performance of firms, public services, and industries.

Author : Juan Aparicio,C. A. Knox Lovell,Jesus T. Pastor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319484617

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Advances in Efficiency and Productivity by Juan Aparicio,C. A. Knox Lovell,Jesus T. Pastor Pdf

This book grows from a conference on the state of the art and recent advances in Efficiency and Productivity. Papers were commissioned from leading researchers in the field, and include eight explorations into the analytical foundations of efficiency and productivity analysis. Chapters on modeling advances include reverse directional distance function, a new method for estimating technological production possibilities, a new distance function called a loss distance function, an analysis of productivity and price recovery indices, the relation of technical efficiency measures to productivity measures, the implications for benchmarking and target setting of imposing weight restrictions on DEA models, weight restrictions in a regulatory setting, and the Principle of Least Action. Chapters on empirical applications include a study of innovative firms that use innovation inputs to produce innovation outputs, a study of the impact of potential “coopetition” or cooperation among competitors on the financial performance of European automobile plants, using SFA to estimate the eco-efficiency of dairy farms in Spain, a DEA bankruptcy prediction model, a combined stochastic cost frontier analysis model/mixture hazard model, the evolution of energy intensity in nine Spanish manufacturing industries, and the productivity of US farmers as they age.

Author : Pedro Macedo,Victor Moutinho,Mara Madaleno
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031295836

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Advanced Mathematical Methods for Economic Efficiency Analysis by Pedro Macedo,Victor Moutinho,Mara Madaleno Pdf

Economic efficiency analysis has received considerable worldwide attention in the last few decades, with Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) establishing themselves as the two dominant approaches in the literature. This book, by combining cutting-edge theoretical research on DEA and SFA with attractive real-world applications, offers a valuable asset for professors, students, researchers, and professionals working in all branches of economic efficiency analysis, as well as those concerned with the corresponding economic policies. The book is divided into three parts, the first of which is devoted to basic concepts, making the content self-contained. The second is devoted to DEA, and the third to SFA. The topics covered in Part 2 range from stochastic DEA to multidirectional dynamic inefficiency analysis, including directional distance functions, the elimination and choice translating algorithm, benefit-of-the-doubt composite indicators, and internal benchmarking for efficiency evaluations. Part 3 also includes exciting and cutting-edge theoretical research on e.g. robustness, nonparametric stochastic frontier models, hierarchical panel data models, and estimation methods like corrected ordinary least squares and maximum entropy.

Author : David Gao,Ning Ruan,Wenxun Xing
Publisher : Springer
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319083773

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Advances in Global Optimization by David Gao,Ning Ruan,Wenxun Xing Pdf

This proceedings volume addresses advances in global optimization—a multidisciplinary research field that deals with the analysis, characterization and computation of global minima and/or maxima of nonlinear, non-convex and nonsmooth functions in continuous or discrete forms. The volume contains selected papers from the third biannual World Congress on Global Optimization in Engineering & Science (WCGO), held in the Yellow Mountains, Anhui, China on July 8-12, 2013. The papers fall into eight topical sections: mathematical programming; combinatorial optimization; duality theory; topology optimization; variational inequalities and complementarity problems; numerical optimization; stochastic models and simulation and complex simulation and supply chain analysis.

Author : Bert M. Balk
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030754488

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Productivity by Bert M. Balk Pdf

This book develops the theory of productivity measurement using the empirical index number approach. The theory uses multiplicative indices and additive indicators as measurement tools, instead of relying on the usual neo-classical assumptions, such as the existence of a production function characterized by constant returns to scale, optimizing behavior of the economic agents, and perfect foresight. The theory can be applied to all the common levels of aggregation (micro, meso, and macro), and half of the book is devoted to accounting for the links existing between the various levels. Basic insights from National Accounts are thereby used. The final chapter is devoted to the decomposition of productivity change into the contributions of efficiency change, technological change, scale effects, and input or output mix effects. Applications on real-life data demonstrate the empirical feasibility of the theory. The book is directed to a variety of overlapping audiences: statisticians involved in measuring productivity change; economists interested in growth accounting; researchers relating macro-economic productivity change to its industrial sources; enterprise micro-data researchers; and business analysts interested in performance measurement.

Author : Y. Wu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230228252

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Productivity, Efficiency and Economic Growth in China by Y. Wu Pdf

This book provides a detailed insight into productivity, efficiency and growth in the Chinese economy, and offers results on capital stock and ICT capital estimates (at both national and regional levels) which will be an important resource for readers.

Author : Timothy J. Coelli,Dodla Sai Prasada Rao,Christopher J. O'Donnell,George Edward Battese
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0387242651

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An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis by Timothy J. Coelli,Dodla Sai Prasada Rao,Christopher J. O'Donnell,George Edward Battese Pdf

Softcover version of the second edition Hardcover. Incorporates a new author, Dr. Chris O'Donnell, who brings considerable expertise to the project in the area of performance measurement. Numerous topics are being added and more applications using real data, as well as exercises at the end of the chapters. Data sets, computer codes and software will be available for download from the web to accompany the volume.

Author : Jeong-Dong Lee,Almas Heshmati
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783790820720

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Productivity, Efficiency, and Economic Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region by Jeong-Dong Lee,Almas Heshmati Pdf

Productivity growth is a keyword for sustainable economic growth in a knowledge-based society. There has been significant methodological development in the literature on productivity and efficiency analysis, e.g. SFA (Stochastic Frontier Analysis) and DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis). All these methodological developments should be matched with applications in order to provide practical implications for private and public decision-makers. This volume provides a collection of up-to-date and new applications of productivity and efficiency analysis. In particular, the case studies cover various economic issues in the Asia-Pacific region. The authors analyze the performance of manufacturing firms, banks, venture capital, broadcasting firms, as well as the issues of efficiency in the education sector, regional development, and defense industry. These case studies will shed light on the potential contribution of productivity and efficiency analysis to the enhancement of economic performance.

Author : Byong H. Lee
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119042778

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Advanced Fermentation and Cell Technology by Byong H. Lee Pdf

ADVANCED FERMENTATION AND CELL TECHNOLOGY A comprehensive and up-to-date reference covering both conventional and novel industrial fermentation technologies and their applications Fermentation and cell culture technologies encompass more than the conventional microbial and enzyme systems used in the agri-food, biochemical, bioenergy and pharmaceutical industries. New technologies such as genetic engineering, systems biology, protein engineering, and mammalian cell and plant cell systems are expanding rapidly, as is the demand for sustainable production of bioingredients, drugs, bioenergy and biomaterials. As the growing biobased economy drives innovation, industrial practitioners, instructors, researchers, and students must keep pace with the development and application of novel fermentation processes and a variety of cell technologies. Advanced Fermentation and Cell Technology provides a balanced and comprehensive overview of the microbial, mammalian, and plant cell technologies used by the modern biochemical process industry to develop new and improved processes and products. This authoritative volume covers the essential features of advanced fermentation and cell technology, and highlights the interaction of food fermentation and cell culture biopharmaceutical actives. Detailed chapters, organized into five sections, cover microbial cell technology, animal and plant cell technology, safety issues of new biotechnologies, and applications of microbial fermentation to food products, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. Written by an internationally-recognized expert in food biotechnology, this comprehensive volume: Covers both conventional and novel industrial fermentation technologies and their applications in a range of industries Discusses current progress in novel fermentation, cell culture, commercial recombinant bioproducts technologies Includes overviews of the global market size of bioproducts and the fundamentals of cell technology Highlights the importance of sustainability, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), quality assurance, and regulatory practices Explores microbial cell technology and culture tools and techniques such as genome shuffling and recombinant DNA technology, RNA interference and CRISPR technology, molecular thermodynamics, protein engineering, proteomics and bioinformatics, and synthetic biology Advanced Fermentation and Cell Technology is an ideal resource for students of food science, biotechnology, microbiology, agricultural sciences, biochemical engineering, and biochemistry, and is a valuable reference for food scientists, researchers, and technologists throughout the food industry, particularly the dairy, bakery, and fermented beverage sectors.

Author : Yanrui Wu,Kaliappa Kalirajan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349274482

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Productivity and Growth in Chinese Agriculture by Yanrui Wu,Kaliappa Kalirajan Pdf

China's agricultural growth in the past two decades has been called a miracle. An analysis of the sources of this miraculous growth is the focus of the present volume. In addition, this book also investigates the impact of economic reforms on agriculture, the potential of grain production in China, and regional disparities in agricultural production and growth performance. This book adds to the literature and contributes to the current debates on food security and rural development.

Author : Charles R. Hulten,Edwin R. Dean,Michael Harper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780226360645

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New Developments in Productivity Analysis by Charles R. Hulten,Edwin R. Dean,Michael Harper Pdf

The productivity slowdown of the 1970s and 1980s and the resumption of productivity growth in the 1990s have provoked controversy among policymakers and researchers. Economists have been forced to reexamine fundamental questions of measurement technique. Some researchers argue that econometric approaches to productivity measurement usefully address shortcomings of the dominant index number techniques while others maintain that current productivity statistics underreport damage to the environment. In this book, the contributors propose innovative approaches to these issues. The result is a state-of-the-art exposition of contemporary productivity analysis. Charles R. Hulten is professor of economics at the University of Maryland. He has been a senior research associate at the Urban Institute and is chair of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Michael Harper is chief of the Division of Productivity Research at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Edwin R. Dean, formerly associate commissioner for Productivity and Technology at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is adjunct professor of economics at The George Washington University.

Author : Robin C. Sickles,Valentin Zelenyuk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107036161

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Measurement of Productivity and Efficiency by Robin C. Sickles,Valentin Zelenyuk Pdf

Provides a comprehensive approach to productivity and efficiency analysis using economic and econometric theory.

Author : Ali Dogramaci
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789400974067

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Developments in Econometric Analyses of Productivity by Ali Dogramaci Pdf

Author : Ana Paula Cusolito,William F. Maloney
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464813627

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Productivity Revisited by Ana Paula Cusolito,William F. Maloney Pdf

Productivity has again moved to center stage in two critical academic and policy debates: the slowing of global growth amid spectacular technological advances, and developing countries’ frustratingly slow progress in catching up to the technological frontier. Productivity Revisited brings together the new conceptual advances of 'second-wave' productivity analysis that have revolutionized the study of productivity, calling much previous analysis into question while providing a new set of tools for approaching these debates. The book extends this analysis and, using unique data sets from multiple developing countries, grounds it in the developing-country context. It calls for rebalancing away from an exclusive focus on misallocation toward a greater focus on upgrading firms and facilitating the emergence of productive new establishments. Such an approach requires a supportive environment and various types of human capital--managerial, technical, and actuarial--necessary to cultivate new transformational firms. The book is the second volume of the World Bank Productivity Project, which seeks to bring frontier thinking on the measurement and determinants of productivity to global policy makers.