Overview
- Highlights recent advances in productivity and efficiency research
- Provides detailed empirical applications of analytical concepts that expand our understanding of the roles of efficiency and productivity in influencing the performance of various sectors of the economy
- Editors and Contributors are some of the most respected in the field
Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 287)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Background
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Methodological Advances
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Empirical Advances
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
C. A. Knox Lovell is Honorary Professor with the Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland. He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Productivity Analysis for a decade. He has authored several books, including Production Frontiers (with Färe and Grosskopf) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (with Kumbhakhar) for Cambridge University Press.
Jesus T. Pastor is a Professor in the Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Informatics at theCenter of Operations Research of University Miguel Hernandez, Elche (Alicante), Spain. He earned his Bachelor’s, Master, and Ph.D., all in Mathematics, at the University of Valencia, and was awarded as one of the three most distinguished Spanish Scientists of 2013 by the Scientific Spanish Association. His research interests are in Productivity and Efficiency, Statistics, and Informatics.
Joe Zhu is Professor of Operations Analytics in the Foisie Business School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is an internationally recognized expert in methods of performance evaluation and benchmarking using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and his research interests are in the areas of operations and business analytics, productivity modeling, and performance evaluation and benchmarking. He has published and co-edited several books focusing on performance evaluation and benchmarking using DEA and developed the DEAFrontier software.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advances in Efficiency and Productivity II
Editors: Juan Aparicio, C. A. Knox Lovell, Jesus T. Pastor, Joe Zhu
Series Title: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41618-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41617-1Published: 21 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41620-1Published: 22 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41618-8Published: 20 July 2020
Series ISSN: 0884-8289
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7934
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 267
Number of Illustrations: 87 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Econometrics, Production, Operations Research/Decision Theory