Intertemporal Production Frontiers: With Dynamic DEA

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-94-010-7309-7
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 341 g

Our intention with this book is to extend the efficiency literature to the case of intertemporal models. We do this in steps. First, we introduce static network models which will serve as building blocks for our intertemporal budgeting models and our dynamic models. Next, we devote two chapters to productivity measurements, which we think of as comparative static models. Intertemporal budgeting models and dynamic models are taken up after that. Each chapter, except Chapter One, contains an empirical applica­ tion. These applications are coauthored with colleagues and stu­ dents; thanks are due to Runar Brannlund, Yijan He, Julius Hor­ vath, Pontus Roos, Jerry Whittaker and S. (Lek) Yaisawarng. We would also like to thank Dale Boisso and Kathy Hayes for gra­ ciously sharing their data on Illinois municipalities with us. Two of the applications are already published, namely: "Environmental Regulation and Profitability: Applications to Swedish Pulp and Pa­ per Mills," Environmental and Resource Economics 6: 23-36, 1995, (Section 2. 5) and "Productivity and Quality Changes in Swedish Pharmacies," International Journal of Production Economics 39: 137-144, 1995, (Section 3. 5). We are grateful to Kluwer Academic Publishers and Elsevier Science for kindly allowing us to reproduce these publications here. During the summer 1995 we spent a very enjoyable two months at the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the University of Munich.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grosskopf, Shawna

Färe, Rolf

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Motivation.- 1.2 Connection to Earlier Work.- 1.3 Production and Time.- 2 Static Production Structure.- 2.1 Technology Axioms.- 2.2 The Activity Analysis Model.- 2.3 A Model with Intermediate Inputs.- 2.4 Optimization.- 2.5 Environmental Regulation and Profitability.- 2.6 Notes on the Literature.- 2.A Appendix.- 3 Distance Functions and Productivity.- 3.1 Distance Functions.- 3.2 Malmquist Productivity Indexes.- 3.3 The Fisher and Törnqvist Productivity Indexes.- 3.4 Activity Analysis and Productivity.- 3.5 Productivity and Quality Changes in Swedish Pharmacies.- 3.6 Notes on the Literature.- 3.A Appendix.- 4 Biased and Embodied Technical Change.- 4.1 Hicks’ Neutral Technical Change.- 4.2 Biased Technical Change.- 4.3 Industrial Productivity Growth in China: 1980–84 vs. 1984–85.- 4.4 On Vintage Technologies.- 4.5 Notes on the Literature.- 4.A Appendix.- 5 Indirect Production and Intertemporal Budgeting.- 5.1 The Cost Indirect Technology.- 5.2 The Intertemporal Budget Constraint.- 5.3 The Intertemporal Cost Indirect Technology.- 5.4 Output-Oriented Efficiency Measures in an Intertemporal Budgeting Framework.- 5.5 Intertemporal Budgeting and Efficiency.- 5.6 Notes on the Literature.- 6 Dynamic Production Models.- 6.1 The Product Technology.- 6.2 Time Substitution.- 6.3 The Basic Dynamic Technology.- 6.4 Storable Inputs.- 6.5 Dynamic Measurement of Efficiency: An Application to Western Public Grazing.- 6.6 Notes on the Literature.- 6.A Appendix.- References.- Author Index.