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The Palgrave Handbook of Performance Analysis
discusses the two basic techniques of performance measurement – deterministic benchmarking and stochastic benchmarking – in detail, and addresses the statistical techniques that connect them. All chapters include applications and explore topics ranging from the output/input ratio to productivity indexes and national statistics.
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1. Introduction- William H. Greene and Thijs ten Raa.- 2. Micro foundations of earnings differences- Tirthatanmoy Das and Solomon W. Polachek.- 3. Performance: The output/input ratio- Thijs ten Raa.- 4. R&D, innovation and productivity- Pierre Mohnen.- 5. The choice of comparable DMUs and environmental variables- John Ruggiero.- 6. Data Envelopment Analysis with alternative returns to scale- Subhash Ray.- 7. Ranking methods within Data Envelopment Analysis- Nicole Adler and Nicola Volta.- 8. Distributional forms in Stochastic Frontier Analysis- Alexander D. Stead, Phill Wheat, and William H. Greene.- 9. Stochastic frontier models for discrete output variables- Eduardo Fe.- 10. Nonparametric statistical analysis of production- Camilla Mastromarco, Leopold Simar, and Paul W. Wilson.- 11. Bayesian performance evaluation- Mike G. Tsionas.- 12. Common methodological choices in parametric and non-parametric analyses of firms'performance- Luis Orea/Jose Zofio.- 13. Pricing inputs and outputs: Market prices versus shadow prices, market power, and welfare analysis- Aditi Bhattacharyya, Levent Kutlu, and Robin C. Sickles.- 14. Aggregation of individual efficiency measures and productivity indices- Andreas Mayer and Valentin Zelenyuk.- 15. Intermediate inputs and industry studies: Input-Output Analysis- Victoria Shestalova.- 16. Modelling environmental adjustments of production technologies: A literature review- K. Hervé Dakpo and Frederic Ang.- 17. An overview of issues in measuring the performance of national economies- Anthony Glass, Karligash Kenjegalieva, Robin C Sickles, and Thomas Weyman-Jones.- 18. Productivity indexes and national statistics: Theory, methods and challenges- W. Erwin Diewert and Kevin J. Fox.