The Measurement Of Productive Efficiency

Author : Harold O. Fried,C. A. Knox Lovell,Shelton S. Schmidt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Harold O. Fried,Shelton S. Schmidt,C. A. Knox Lovell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Rolf Färe,Shawna Grosskopf,C.A. Knox Lovell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401577212

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The Measurement of Efficiency of Production by Rolf Färe,Shawna Grosskopf,C.A. Knox Lovell Pdf

Author : Robin C. Sickles,Valentin Zelenyuk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Harold O. Fried,C. A. Knox Lovell,Shelton S. Schmidt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Industrial efficiency
ISBN : 0197710409

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

This work focuses on the measurement and explanation of producer performance. The contributors view performance as a function of the state of technology and economic efficiency. They explore ways to construct production frontiers and levels of efficiency.

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 : 51,5 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 : Elvira Silva,Spiro E. Stefanou,Alfons Oude Lansink
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190919474

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Dynamic Efficiency and Productivity Measurement by Elvira Silva,Spiro E. Stefanou,Alfons Oude Lansink Pdf

"The book takes on a systematic treatment of dynamic decision making and performance measurement. The analytical foundations of the dynamic production technology are introduced and developed in detail for several primal representations of the technology with an emphasis on dynamic directional distance functions. Dynamic cost minimization and dynamic profit maximization are developed for primal and dual representations of the dynamic technology. A dynamic production environment can be characterized as one where current production decisions impact future production possibilities. Consequently, the dynamic perspective of production relationships necessarily involves the close interplay between stock and flow elements in the transformation process, and how current decisions impact the changes in future stocks. Stock elements in the production transformation process can involve physical elements that can be effectively employed in the transformation process that can include the stock of technical knowledge and expertise available to the decision maker during the decision period. The dynamic generalization of concepts measuring the production structure (e.g., economies of scale, economies of scope, capacity utilization) and performance (e.g., allocative, scale and technical inefficiency, productivity) are developed from primal and dual perspectives"--

Author : Christopher J. O'Donnell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Parkash Chander,Jacques Drèze,C. Knox Lovell,Jack Mintz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780387255347

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Public Goods, Environmental Externalities and Fiscal Competition by Parkash Chander,Jacques Drèze,C. Knox Lovell,Jack Mintz Pdf

The 22 papers in this volume illustrate the itinerary of Henry Tulkens on the occasion of his retirement from teaching. The volume presents contemporary analysis of Tulkens’ classic papers on public sector economics. The collection is structured in four parts: I. Decentralized resource allocation processes for public and private goods - II. Environment, public goods and externalities - III. Efficiency analysis - IV. Fiscal competition and optimality.

Author : Charles R. Hulten,Edwin R. Dean,Michael Harper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Dong-Wook Song,Kevin Cullinane
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351883528

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The Productive Efficiency of Container Terminals by Dong-Wook Song,Kevin Cullinane Pdf

This work applies the theory and techniques of economic efficiency measurement to the realistic context of the ports industry. The objective is to assess the practical impact of port privatization policies upon the economic performance of the sector. Specifically, this volume presents Korea’s port and terminal development plans and systematically analyses not only the process and results of privatisation, but also the claims of its proponents that it leads directly to improved efficiency. The Korean experience is given global relevance by applying the same approach to Britain’s main container ports and terminals which, of course, are at a more advanced stage in the privatisation process. This work constitutes a unique contribution to the literature relating to shipping and ports, econometrics and the Korean economy and will be of primary interest to port authorities and practitioners, as well as to students of economics and/or the shipping industry.

Author : Ali Dogramaci,Rolf Färe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789400932531

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Applications of Modern Production Theory by Ali Dogramaci,Rolf Färe Pdf

Author : László Mátyás,Patrick Sevestre
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789400901377

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The Econometrics of Panel Data by László Mátyás,Patrick Sevestre Pdf

The aim of this volume is to provide a general overview of the econometrics of panel data, both from a theoretical and from an applied viewpoint. Since the pioneering papers by Edwin Kuh (1959), Yair Mundlak (1961), Irving Hoch (1962), and Pietro Balestra and Marc Nerlove (1966), the pooling of cross sections and time series data has become an increasingly popular way of quantifying economic relationships. Each series provides information lacking in the other, so a combination of both leads to more accurate and reliable results than would be achievable by one type of series alone. Over the last 30 years much work has been done: investigation of the properties of the applied estimators and test statistics, analysis of dynamic models and the effects of eventual measurement errors, etc. These are just some of the problems addressed by this work. In addition, some specific diffi culties associated with the use of panel data, such as attrition, heterogeneity, selectivity bias, pseudo panels etc., have also been explored. The first objective of this book, which takes up Parts I and II, is to give as complete and up-to-date a presentation of these theoretical developments as possible. Part I is concerned with classical linear models and their extensions; Part II deals with nonlinear models and related issues: logit and pro bit models, latent variable models, duration and count data models, incomplete panels and selectivity bias, point processes, and simulation techniques.

Author : Jenifer Piesse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429857232

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Efficiency Issues in Transitional Economies by Jenifer Piesse Pdf

Published in 1999, this text uses a number of approaches to measure the performance of firms in the transition economies of Central Eastern Europe during the early stages of reform. There is considerable controversy about the level of productivity in this period, as is evident by contradictory evidence quoted in the literature and a high degree of inconsistency in published national statistics. Indeed, the disagreement extends to the measurement approach and the results for this group of countries. Particularly difficult is any analysis at the firm level, as data is inconsistent, incomplete and based on now out-dated accounting systems. The information used in this book is a panel data set of 64 items collected from 1000 firms across 25 industry sectors in Hungary. Productive efficiency is measured and the reasons for poor performance are discussed. It was found that industrial sectors differ in their average performance levels and in the factors most likely to account for this. Finally, recommendations are developed to help to reverse the decline in productivity.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264248533

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The Future of Productivity by OECD Pdf

This book addresses the rising productivity gap between the global frontier and other firms, and identifies a number of structural impediments constraining business start-ups, knowledge diffusion and resource allocation (such as barriers to up-scaling and relatively high rates of skill mismatch).