Robin C. Sickles (Houston Rice University), Valentin Zelenyuk (University of Queensland)

Measurement of Productivity and Efficiency

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive approach to productivity and efficiency analysis for upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals. An accompanying website includes programming codes that can be used with widely available software like MATLAB (R) and R, and test data for many of the estimators in the book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 630
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1002g
• ISBN-13: 9781107036161
• ISBN-10: 110703616X
• Artikelnr.: 54429770

Autorenporträt

Robin C. Sickles is the Reginald Henry Hargrove Professor of Economics and Professor of Statistics at Rice University, Houston. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Productivity Analysis as well as an Associate Editor for a number of other economics and econometrics journals. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Econometrics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Production theory: primal approach
2. Production theory: dual approach
3. Efficiency measurement
4. Productivity indexes: part 1
5. Aggregation
6. Functional forms
7. Productivity indexes: part 2
8. Envelopment-type estimators
9. Statistical analysis for DEA and FDH: Part 1
10. Statistical analysis for DEA and FDH: part 2
11. Cross-sectional stochastic frontiers
12. SF models-first generation panel approaches
13. SF models-second generation approaches
14. Endogeneity
15. Dynamic models
16. Shape restrictions and model averaging
17. Measurement, KLEMS, and other data
Afterword.