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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sengupta, Jati
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1989, 1989
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