Efficiency Analysis by Production Frontiers The Nonparametric Approach
Measuring productive efficiency for nonprofit organizations has posed a great challenge to applied researchers today. The problem has many facets and diverse implications for a number of disciplines such as economics, applied statistics, management science and information theory. This monograph disc...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1989, 1989
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Edition: | 1st ed. 1989 |
Series: | Theory and Decision Library B, Mathematical and Statistical Methods
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Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Efficiency Analysis in Production
- 1.1 Partial and General Equilibrium Models
- 1.2 Production Frontier as Flexible Production Functions
- 1.3 Parametric Forms and their Econometric Estimation
- 1.4 Nonparametric Theory: Different Facets
- 1.5 Implications of Nonparametric Theory
- 2 The Nonparametric Approach
- 2.1 Convex Hull Method
- 2.2 Stochastic Micro and Macro Frontier
- 2.3 Data Envelopment Analysis
- 2.4 Consistency Approach through Data Adjustment
- 2.5 Distribution of Technical and Price Efficiency
- 3 Interface With Parametric Theory
- 3.1 Average versus Optimal Production Function
- 3.2 Estimation of Production Frontier
- 3.3 Robust Methods of Estimation
- 3.4 Data Screening and Cluster Analysis
- 3.5 Problems in Parametric Theory
- 4 Implications of Nonparametric Theory
- 4.1 Economic Implications
- 4.2 Econometrics and Minimax Frontiers
- 4.3 The Regression and Index Number Problem
- 4.4 Joint Costs and Nonlinear Frontiers
- 4.5 Efficiency Analysis in the Stochastic Case
- 5 Extensions of Nonparametric Approach
- 5.1 Economic Generalizations
- 5.2 Extensions of Data Envelopment Analysis
- 5.3 Combining Parametric and Nonparametric Models
- 5.4 Nonparametric Regression and Bootstrap Methods
- 5.5 Distribution of Technical and Price Efficiency
- 6 Applications of Nonparametric Theory
- 6.1 Production in Quasi-Market and Non-Market Systems
- 6.2 Managerial Models in Operations Research
- 6.3 Economic Development and International Trade
- 6.4 Stochastic Programming and Markov Process Models
- 6.5 Multivariate Data Analysis and Information Theory
- Author Index