Advanced Robust and Nonparametric Methods in Efficiency Analysis: Methodology and Applications (Studies in Productivity and Efficiency)

✍ Scribed by Cinzia Daraio, Leopold Simar

Publisher: Springer
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 260
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Providing a systematic and comprehensive treatment of recent developments in efficiency analysis, this book makes available an intuitive yet rigorous presentation of advanced nonparametric and robust methods, with applications for the analysis of economies of scale and scope, trade-offs in production and service activities, and explanations of efficiency differentials.

✦ Table of Contents

front-matter......Page 1
Introduction......Page 20
The Measurement of Efficiency......Page 29
Statistical Inference in Nonparametric Frontier Estimation......Page 59
Nonparametric Robust Estimators Partial Frontiers......Page 81
Conditional Measures Of Efficiency......Page 111
Economies of Scale, Scope and Experience in the Italian Motor-Vehicle Sector......Page 149
Age, Scale and Concentration Effects in a Public Research System......Page 180
Exploring the Effects of Manager Tenure, Fund Age and their Interaction......Page 206
Conclusions......Page 230
back-matter......Page 233

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