International Applications of Productivity and Efficiency Analysis

1. Front Matter

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2. Editors’ Introduction

   • Thomas R. Gulledge, C. A. Knox Lovell

   Pages 1-1

3. Efficiency and Ownership in Swedish Electricity Retail Distribution

   • Lennart Hjalmarsson, Ann Veiderpass

   Pages 3-19

4. A Comparison of Parametric and Non-Parametric Efficiency Measures: The Case of Norwegian Ferries

   • Finn R. Førsund

   Pages 21-39

5. Allowing for Inefficiency in Parametric Estimation of Production Functions for Urban Transit Firms

   • Bernard Thiry, Henry Tulkens

   Pages 41-61

6. The Relative Efficiency of Public versus Private Municipal Bus Firms: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis

   • Kuo-Ping Chang, Pei-Hua Kao

   Pages 63-80

7. Productivity Changes in Swedish Pharamacies 1980–1989: A Non-Parametric Malmquist Approach

   • R. Färe, S. Grosskopf, B. Lindgren, P. Roos

   Pages 81-97

8. Variation in Productive Efficiency in French Workers’ Cooperatives

   • Jacques Defourny, C. A. Knox Lovell, Aké G. M. N’gbo

   Pages 99-113

9. Technical Inefficiency and Productive Decline in the U.S. Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline Industry Under the Natural Gas Policy Act

   • Robin C. Sickles, Mary L. Streitwieser

   Pages 115-129

10. Measuring Technical Efficiency in European Railways: A Panel Data Approach

    • Henry-Jean Gathon, Sergio Perelman

    Pages 131-147

11. Frontier Production Functions, Technical Efficiency and Panel Data: With Application to Paddy Farmers in India

    • G. E. Battese, T. J. Coelli

    Pages 149-165

12. Estimating Efficiencies from Frontier Models with Panel Data: A Comparison of Parametric, Non-Parametric and Semi-Parametric Methods with Bootstrapping

    • Léopold Simar

    Pages 167-199

International Applications of Productivity and Efficiency Analysis features a complete range of techniques utilized in frontier analysis, including extensions of existing techniques and the development of new techniques. Another feature is that most of the contributions use panel data in a variety of approaches. Finally, the range of empirical applications is at least as great as the range of techniques, and many of the applications are of considerable policy relevance.

• Data Envelopment Analysis
• calculus
• data envelopment
• distribution
• production
• productivity

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