Publisher Summary This chapter discusses alternative approaches to measure the effects of
economic regulation and reviews the empirical literature employing these approaches …

This chapter presents the empirical evidence on productivity and technical change for the
aggregate agricultural sector. It describes the descriptive information on agricultural …

This book develops econometric techniques for the estimation of production, cost and profit
frontiers, and for the estimation of the technical and economic efficiency with which …

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circumstances. Malmquist input, output, and productivity comparisons are defined for …

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modern manager. However, managers interested in identifying efficient practice have few …

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using index number techniques. There was extensive debate as to which index number …

The paper develops an approach to measuring the impact of environmental regulations on
total factor productivity growth which is less restrictive than a simple growth accounting …

In this paper we use multi-output distance functions to investigate technical inefficiency in
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Efficiency Analysis: A Primer on Recent Advances Page 1 Efficiency Analysis: A Primer on
Recent Advances Christopher F. Parmeter Department of Economics University of Miami …