TY - BOOK ID - 21444604 TI - Production frontiers AU - Färe, Rolf AU - Grosskopf, Shawna AU - Lovell, C. A. Knox PY - 1994 SN - 0521420334 0521072069 0511551711 9780521420334 9780511551710 9780521072069 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Production possibility curve. KW - Industrial efficiency. KW - Efficience dans l'industrie. KW - Economic production KW - Production (Economic theory) KW - Business, Economy and Management KW - Economics KW - Efficiency, Industrial KW - Industrial management KW - Production frontier KW - Transformation curve KW - THEORIE ECONOMIQUE KW - EFFICACITE PRODUCTIVE KW - THEORIE DE LA PRODUCTION UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:21444604 AB - This book presents a mathematical programming approach to the analysis of production frontiers and efficiency measurement. The authors construct a variety of production frontiers, and by measuring distances to them are able to develop a model of efficient producer behaviour and a taxonomy of possible types of departure from efficiency in various environments. Linear programming is used as an analytical and computational technique in order to accomplish this. The approach developed is then applied to modelling producer behaviour. By focusing on the empirical relevance of production frontiers and distances to them, and applying linear programming techniques to artificial data to illustrate the type of information they can generate, this book provides a unique study in applied production analysis. It will be of interest to scholars and students of economics and operations research, and analysts in business and government. ER -