Handbook of Production Economics

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-981-10-3454-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 1807 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 3609 g

Reihe: Handbook of Production Economics

This three-volume handbook includes state-of-the-art surveys in different areas of neoclassical production economics. Volumes 1 and 2 cover theoretical and methodological issues only. Volume 3 includes surveys of empirical applications in different areas like manufacturing, agriculture, banking, energy and environment, and so forth.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ray, Subhash C.

Chambers, Robert G.

Kumbhakar, Subal C.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Produktionstechnik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Produktionsmanagement, Qualitätskontrolle
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Mikroökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Overview of Neoclassical Production Economics- Editors.- 2.  Duality in Production Diewert (agreed).- 3.  Multiproduct Technologies Fare--agreed.- 4.  Elasticities of Substitution Russell--agreed.- 5.  Conceptualization and Measurement of Technical Change and Productivity Growth Hulten or Jorgensen.- 6.  Index Numbers Balk (provisionally agreed).- 7.  Market Structures.- 8.  Capacity Utilization Segerson and Squires--agreed.- 9.  Regulation  Bogetoft—agreed.- 10.  Bad Outputs Murty and Russell--agreed.- 11.  Dynamic Analysis of Production Stefanou--agreed.- 12.  Production under Uncertainty Bob Chambers--agreed.- 13.  Growth Theory—here I would include both Solow-Swan and the Endogenous Growth literature.- 14.  Stochastic Frontier Analysis Subal Kumbhakar--agreed.- 15.  Data Envelopment Analysis Subhash Ray--agreed.

Über Autor(innen)

Subhash C. Ray  is a Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut, USA. His principal area of research is nonparametric measurement of productivity and efficiency using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). His reference textbook  Data Envelopment Analysis: Theory and Techniques for Economics and Operations Research  (Cambridge University Press) was published in 2004. He is an Associate Editor of  Journal of Productivity Analysis . He has served as guest editor of special issues of Journal of Productivity Analysis and   Indian Economic Review . He was a member of the Editorial Board of  Indian Economic Review.  He has lectured and conducted workshops on DEA in different countries including China, India, Korea, England, Brazil, Peru, Germany, Malaysia, and Turkey, among others. He received the W.W. Cooper Lifetime Contribution Award from International DEA Society in 2016.

Robert G. Chambers  wasborn in Washington, DC and raised in nearby Rockville, Maryland. He received his undergraduate training at Georgetown University, his MS degree from the University of Maryland, and his PhD from the University of California (Berkeley). He joined the faculty at the University of Maryland in 1979 and has been there ever since apart from leave to serve as Senior Economist at the US President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He is a Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. His areas of interest include production economics, microeconomic theory, decision-making under uncertainty, and agricultural economics. He is married and has three sons, Christopher, Geoffrey, and Timothy. He currently resides in Maryland, New York, and New Mexico with his wife, Michelle, his youngest son, Tim, and their Portuguese Water Dogs, Nelson and Skipper.

Subal Kumbhakar  Professor Subal C. Kumbhakar (http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~kkar/) is a University Distinguished Research Professor in Economics at the State University of New York at Binghamton. His main area of research is applied microeconomics with a focus on estimation of efficiency in production using cross-sectional and panel data.

Professor Kumbhakar is a Fellow of Journal of Econometrics (1998) and a distinguished author of Journal of Applied Econometrics (2017). He holds an Honorary Doctorate degree (Doctor Honoris Causa) from Gothenburg University, Sweden (1997).

              Professor Kumbhakar is currently a co-editor of Empirical Economics and served as an associate editor of Empirical Economics since 2001, American Journal of Agricultural Economics (1997-1999). He is serving as a Board of Editors of Journal of Productivity Analysis since 1998, Technological Forecasting and Social Change: An International Journal since 1991, and International Journal of Business and Economics since 2002,  Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies  since 2007, Applied Econometrics, http://appliedeconometrics.cemi.rssi.ru/AppEc_en.html since 2016, Ecos de Economía: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics, http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ecos-economia/index since 2016. He is a Board Member of  Journal of Regulatory Economics  since 2015.

Professor Kumbhakar is the co-author (with Knox Lovell) of Stochastic Frontier Analysis (2000), A Practitioner's Guide to Stochastic Frontier Analysis Using Stata (with Hung-Jen Wang and A. Horncastle) (2015) both published by the Cambridge University Press. 

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