TY - BOOK ID - 65298181 TI - Advances in Efficiency and Productivity II AU - Aparicio, Juan. AU - Lovell, C. A. Knox. AU - Pastor, Jesus T. AU - Zhu, Joe. PY - 2020 SN - 3030416186 3030416178 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Production management. KW - Manufacturing management KW - Industrial management KW - Econometrics. KW - Operations research. KW - Decision making. KW - Production. KW - Operations Research/Decision Theory. KW - Operational analysis KW - Operational research KW - Industrial engineering KW - Management science KW - Research KW - System theory KW - Deciding KW - Decision (Psychology) KW - Decision analysis KW - Decision processes KW - Making decisions KW - Management KW - Management decisions KW - Choice (Psychology) KW - Problem solving KW - Economics, Mathematical KW - Statistics KW - Decision making UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:65298181 AB - This book surveys the state-of-the-art in efficiency and productivity analysis, examining advances in the analytical foundations and empirical applications. The analytical techniques developed in this book for efficiency provide alternative ways of defining optimum outcome sets, typically as a (technical) production frontier or as an (economic) cost, revenue or profit frontier, and alternative ways of measuring efficiency relative to an appropriate frontier. Simultaneously, the analytical techniques developed for efficiency analysis extend directly to productivity analysis, thereby providing alternative methods for estimating productivity levels, and productivity change through time or productivity variation across producers. This book includes chapters using data envelopment analysis (DEA) or stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) as quantitative techniques capable of measuring efficiency and productivity. Across the book’s 15 chapters, it broadly extends into popular application areas including agriculture, banking and finance, and municipal performance, and relatively new application areas including corporate social responsibility, the value of intangible assets, land consolidation, and the measurement of economic well-being. The chapters also cover topics such as permutation tests for production frontier shifts, new indices of total factor productivity, and also randomized controlled trials and production frontiers. ER -