Production Frontiers

ISBN-13: 9780521420334 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 316 str.

Rolf Fare; Shawna Grosskopf; C. a. Knox Lovell

Opis

This book presents a mathematical programming approach to the analysis of production frontiers and efficiency measurement. Using linear programming techniques, the authors construct a variety of production frontiers, and develop a model of efficient producer behavior and a taxonomy of possible types of departure from efficiency in various environments. This book provides a unique study in applied production analysis, and will be of interest to scholars and students of economics and operations research, and analysts in business and government.

Recenzje

"The book as a whole is cleanly executed and well written....I highly recommend the book as the basic reference on the mathematical-programming approach to the analysis of production frontiers." Journal of Economic Literature

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Production technology; 3. Input-based efficiency measurement; 4. Output-based efficiency measurement; 5. Indirect input-based efficiency measurement; 6. Indirect output-based efficiency measurement; 7. The measurement of price efficiency; 8. Graph efficiency measurement; 9. Efficiency measurement and productivity measurement; 10. Topics in efficiency measurement.