Production Frontiers

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-521-42033-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

This book presents a mathematical programming approach to the analysis of production frontiers and efficiency measurement. The authors construct a variety of production frontiers, and by measuring distances to them are able to develop a model of efficient producer behaviour and a taxonomy of possible types of departure from efficiency in various environments. Linear programming is used as an analytical and computational technique in order to accomplish this. The approach developed is then applied to modelling producer behaviour. By focusing on the empirical relevance of production frontiers and distances to them, and applying linear programming techniques to artificial data to illustrate the type of information they can generate, this book provides a unique study in applied production analysis. It will be of interest to scholars and students of economics and operations research, and analysts in business and government.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fare, Rolf

Grosskopf, Shawna

Lovell, C. A. Knox

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Produktionstechnik Fertigungstechnik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.