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Benchmarking for Performance Evaluation A Production Frontier Approach /

This book provides a detailed introduction to the theoretical and methodological foundations of production efficiency analysis using benchmarking. Two of the more popular methods of efficiency evaluation are Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), both of which are ba...

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Other Authors: Ray, Subhash C. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kumbhakar, Subal C. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dua, Pami. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Subjects:
Operations research.
Decision making.
Microeconomics.
Statistics .
Production management.
Econometrics.
Operations Research/Decision Theory.
Statistics for Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance.
Operations Management.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2253-8
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction – Ray, Subhash; Kumbhakar, Subal & Dua, Pami
  • Chapter 1. Estimation of Technical Inefficiency in Production Frontier Models Using Cross-Sectional Data by Kumbhakar, Subal C. & Wang, Hung-Jen
  • Chapter 2. Data Envelopment Analysis for Performance Evaluation: A Child’s Guide by Ray, Subhash C. & Chen, Lei
  • Chapter 3. An Introduction to CNLS and StoNED Methods for Efficiency Analysis: Economic Insights and Computational Aspects by Johnson, Andrew L. and Kuosmanen, Timo
  • Chapter 4. Dynamic Efficiency Measurement by Førsund, Finn R
  • Chapter 5. Efficiency Measures for Industrial Organization by Ten Raa, Thijs
  • Chapter 6. Multiplicative and Additive Distance Functions: Efficiency Measures and Duality by Pastor, Jesus T. & Aparicio, Juan.

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