Applications of Modern Production Theory
Efficiency and Productivity
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Paperback/Softback
XII, 276 pages
978-94-010-7959-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
1988
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XII, 276 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
446 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-010-7959-4 (9789401079594)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-009-3253-1
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Content
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.