Productivity And Efficiency Analysis

Author : William H. Greene,Lynda Khalaf,Robin Sickles,Michael Veall,Marcel-Cristian Voia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319232287

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Productivity and Efficiency Analysis by William H. Greene,Lynda Khalaf,Robin Sickles,Michael Veall,Marcel-Cristian Voia Pdf

This proceedings volume examines the state-of-the art of productivity and efficiency analysis and adds to the existing research by bringing together a selection of the best papers from the 8th North American Productivity Workshop (NAPW). It also aims to analyze world-wide perspectives on challenges that local economies and institutions may face when changes in productivity are observed. The volume comprises of seventeen papers that deal with 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. These papers are relevant to academia, but also to public and private sectors in terms of the challenges firms, financial institutions, governments and individuals may face when dealing with economic and education related activities that lead to increase or decrease of productivity. The North American Productivity Workshop brings together academic scholars and practitioners in the field of productivity and efficiency analysis from all over the world. It is a four day conference exploring topics related to productivity, production theory and efficiency measurement in economics, management science, operations research, public administration, and related fields. The papers in this volume also address general topics as health, energy, finance, agriculture, utilities, and economic dev elopment, among others. The editors are comprised of the 2014 local organizers, program committee members, and celebrated guest conference speakers.

Author : Christopher J. O'Donnell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811329845

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Productivity and Efficiency Analysis by Christopher J. O'Donnell Pdf

This book provides a coherent description of the main concepts and statistical methods used to analyse economic performance. The focus is on measures of performance that are of practical relevance to policy makers. Most, if not all, of these measures can be viewed as measures of productivity and/or efficiency. Linking fields as diverse as index number theory, data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis, the book explains how to compute measures of input and output quantity change that are consistent with measurement theory. It then discusses ways in which meaningful measures of productivity change can be decomposed into measures of technical progress, environmental change, and different types of efficiency change. The book is aimed at graduate students, researchers, statisticians, accountants and economists working in universities, regulatory authorities, government departments and private firms. The book contains many numerical examples. Computer codes and datasets are available on a companion website.

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 : 46,9 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 : Christopher F. Parmeter,Robin C. Sickles
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Timothy J. Coelli,Dodla Sai Prasada Rao,George Edward Battese
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461554936

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

An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis is designed as a primer for anyone seeking an authoritative introduction to efficiency and productivity analysis. It is a systematic treatment of four relatively new methodologies in Efficiency/Production Analysis: (a) Least-Squares Econometric Production Models, (b) Total Factor Productivity (TFP) Indices, (c) Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and (d) Stochastic Frontiers. Each method is discussed thoroughly. First, the basic elements of each method are discussed using models to illustrate the method's fundamentals, and, second, the discussion is expanded to treat the extensions and varieties of each method's uses. Finally, one or more case studies are provided as a full illustration of how each methodology can be used. In addition, all four methodologies will be linked in the book's presentation by examining the advantages and disadvantages of each method and the problems to which each method can be most suitably applied. The book offers the first unified text presentation of methods that will be of use to students, researchers and practitioners who work in the growing area of Efficiency/Productivity Analysis. The book also provides detailed advice on computer programs which can be used to calculate the various measures. This involves a number of presentations of computer instructions and output listings for the SHAZAM, TFPIP, DEAP and FRONTIER computer programs.

Author : Fabio Sartori Piran,Daniel Pacheco Lacerda,Luis Felipe Riehs Camargo
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000766516

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Analysis and Management of Productivity and Efficiency in Production Systems for Goods and Services by Fabio Sartori Piran,Daniel Pacheco Lacerda,Luis Felipe Riehs Camargo Pdf

In companies that produce goods and services, productivity and efficiency improvements are a constant challenge. This book reviews the differences between productivity and efficiency. It proposes a new method and makes available a computational tool for implementation that contributes to facilitating the use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book presents a discussion about productivity and efficiency, illustrating the potentials of use and conceptual differences. It covers the concepts and techniques for analysis of productivity and efficiency, analyzing critical benefits and limitations, explains in detail how to use DEA for analysis, provides innovative methods for using DEA, offers a free online computer tool with a direction guide, shows real empirical applications, and covers other techniques that can be used to complement the analysis performed. The book is for professionals, managers, consultants, students working and taking courses in productive systems of goods and services. Ancillary materials include a free online computer tool to operationalize the concepts and methods proposed in the book, a guide on how to use the method and the software developed for the DEA application. Solutions manual, instructor’s manual, PowerPoint slides, and figure slides also will be available upon qualified adoption.

Author : Robin C. Sickles,Valentin Zelenyuk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Juan Aparicio,C. A. Knox Lovell,Jesus T. Pastor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Thomas R. Gulledge,C.A. Knox Lovell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401719230

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International Applications of Productivity and Efficiency Analysis by Thomas R. Gulledge,C.A. Knox Lovell Pdf

International Applications of Productivity and Efficiency Analysis features a complete range of techniques utilized in frontier analysis, including extensions of existing techniques and the development of new techniques. Another feature is that most of the contributions use panel data in a variety of approaches. Finally, the range of empirical applications is at least as great as the range of techniques, and many of the applications are of considerable policy relevance.

Author : Tihomir Ancev,M.A. Samad Azad,Francesc Hernández-Sancho
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786432421

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New Directions in Productivity Measurement and Efficiency Analysis by Tihomir Ancev,M.A. Samad Azad,Francesc Hernández-Sancho Pdf

This book explores novel research perspectives on the intersection of environmental/natural resource economics and productivity analysis, emphasizing the link between productivity and efficiency measurement and environmental impacts. The purpose of the book is to present new approaches and methods for measuring environmentally adjusted productivity and efficiency, and for incorporating natural resources in standard national accounting practices. These methods are applicable in many contexts, including air and water pollution, climate change, green accounting, and environmental regulation

Author : Harold O. Fried,Shelton S. Schmidt,C. A. Knox Lovell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195361100

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The Measurement of Productive Efficiency by Harold O. Fried,Shelton S. Schmidt,C. A. Knox Lovell Pdf

This work focuses on measuring and explaining producer performance. The authors view performance as a function of the state of technology and economic efficiency, with the former defining a frontier relation between inputs and outputs; the former incorporating waste and misallocation relative to this frontier. They show that insights can be gained by allowing for the possibility of a divergence between the economic objective and actual performance, and by associating this inefficiency with causal variables subject to managerial or policy influence. Derived from a series of lectures held on techniques and applications of the three approaches to the construction of production frontiers and measure of efficiency, this work will be an essential reference to scholars of a variety of disciplines who are involved with quantitative methods or policy.

Author : Harold O. Fried,C. A. Knox Lovell,Shelton S. Schmidt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198040504

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The Measurement of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Growth by Harold O. Fried,C. A. Knox Lovell,Shelton S. Schmidt Pdf

When Harold Fried, et al. published The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques and Applications with OUP in 1993, the book received a great deal of professional interest for its accessible treatment of the rapidly growing field of efficiency and productivity analysis. The first several chapters, providing the background, motivation, and theoretical foundations for this topic, were the most widely recognized. In this tight, direct update, these same editors have compiled over ten years of the most recent research in this changing field, and expanded on those seminal chapters. The book will guide readers from the basic models to the latest, cutting-edge extensions, and will be reinforced by references to classic and current theoretical and applied research. It is intended for professors and graduate students in a variety of fields, ranging from economics to agricultural economics, business administration, management science, and public administration. It should also appeal to public servants and policy makers engaged in business performance analysis or regulation.

Author : Juan Aparicio,C. A. Knox Lovell,Jesus T. Pastor,Joe Zhu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Thomas R. Gulledge,C. A. Knox Lovell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401719241

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International Applications of Productivity and Efficiency Analysis by Thomas R. Gulledge,C. A. Knox Lovell Pdf

Author : Rolf Färe,Shawna Grosskopf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 038724963X

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New Directions by Rolf Färe,Shawna Grosskopf Pdf

The format of this monograph is three essays, which we arrived at after spending a year writing over one hundred pages of what we even tually realized was a tedious reworking of old material. So we started over determined to write something new. At first we thought this approach might not work as a coherent mono graph, which is why we chose the essay format rather than chapters. As it turns out, there is a common thread—namely the directional distance function, which also gave us our title. As you shall see, the directional distance function includes traditional distance functions and efficiency measures as special cases providing a unifying framework for existing productivity and efficiency measures. It is also flexible enough to open up new areas in productivity and efficiency analysis such as environmen tal and aggregation issues. That we did not see this earlier is humbling; a student at a recent conference raised his hand and asked 'Why didn't you start with the directional distance function in the first place? In deed. This manuscript is intended to make up for our earlier oversights. This monograph contains papers coauthored with Wen-Fu Lee and Osman Zaim and one paper written by two former students, Hiroyuki Fukuyama and Bill Weber. We thank them for their contributions. An other former student, Jim Logan (Logi) read and critiqued the manu script for which we are grateful.