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Productivity and Efficiency Analysis: An Economic Approach to Measuring and Explaining Managerial Performance

✍ Scribed by Christopher J. O'Donnell

Publisher
Springer Singapore
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Leaves
434
Edition
1st ed.
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi
Overview (Christopher J. O’Donnell)....Pages 1-54
Production Technologies (Christopher J. O’Donnell)....Pages 55-92
Measures of Productivity Change (Christopher J. O’Donnell)....Pages 93-143
Managerial Behaviour (Christopher J. O’Donnell)....Pages 145-173
Measures of Efficiency (Christopher J. O’Donnell)....Pages 175-218
Piecewise Frontier Analysis (Christopher J. O’Donnell)....Pages 219-280
Deterministic Frontier Analysis (Christopher J. O’Donnell)....Pages 281-324
Stochastic Frontier Analysis (Christopher J. O’Donnell)....Pages 325-372
Practical Considerations (Christopher J. O’Donnell)....Pages 373-391
Back Matter ....Pages 393-418

✦ Subjects

Economics; Economic Growth; Econometrics; Industrial Organization; Operations Research/Decision Theory

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