Applications of Modern Production Theory - Efficiency and Productivity

List of contents

One.- 1 A Comparison of Alternative Approaches to the Measurement of Productive Efficiency.- 2 A Comparison of DEA and Translog Estimates of Production Frontiers Using Simulated Observations from a Known Technology.- Two.- 3 Stochastic Frontier Inefficiency and Firm Size for Selected Industries of the Belgian Manufacturing Sector: Some New Evidence.- 4 Sources of Differences in Agricultural Productivity Growth Among Socialist Countries.- 5 Cost Pressures and Relative Productivity in Canadian Telecommunications Firms.- 6 Allocative Inefficiency in the Airline Industry: A Case for Deregulation.- 7 Capacity Utilization and Productivity Measurement: An Application to the U.S. Automobile Industry.- 8 The Effect of Shifts in the Composition of Employment on Labor Productivity Growth: Canada 1971-1979.- Three.- 9 Measuring Shadow Price Efficiency.- 10 General Homothetic Production Correspondences.- 11 Efficiency in Production and Consumption.- Index, author.- Index, subject.

Product details

• Assisted by: Al Dogramaci (Editor), Ali Dogramaci (Editor), Rolf Fare (Editor), Färe (Editor), Färe (Editor), Rolf Färe (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2009
• EAN: 9780898381825
• ISBN: 978-0-89838-182-5
• No. of pages: 276
• Weight: 590 g
• Illustrations: XII, 276 p.
• Series: Studies in Productivity Analysis; Studies in Productivity Analysis
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics