Most of the literature related to the measurement of economic efficiency has based its
analysis either on parametric or on non‐parametric frontier methods. The choice of …

The concept of technical efficiency is central to measuring the firm performance. The
measurement of technical efficiency has proved difficult and complex, and the literature …

The method of model averaging has become an important tool to deal with model
uncertainty, for example in situations where a large amount of different theories exist, as are …

The second edition of this book has been written for the same audience as the first edition. It
is designed to be a" first port of call" for people wishing to study efficiency and productivity …

This paper examines several extensions of the stochastic frontier that account for
unmeasured heterogeneity as well as firm inefficiency. The fixed effects model is extended …

Investigating the impact of public subsidies on farm technical efficiency is becoming a critical
issue in applied agricultural policy analysis. This article presents a meta-analysis of …

Chapter 1 describes two broad paradigms for measuring economic efficiency, one based on
an essentially nonparametric, programming approach to analysis of observed outcomes …

In this course we perform an introduction to Bayesian methods, we show some basic
definitions and properties of the bayesian approach. We have taken the content from the …

When Harold Fried, et al. published The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques
and Applications with OUP in 1993, the book received a great deal of professional interest …

Few studies have investigated the quantitative relationship between port ownership
structure and port efficiency with mixed results. This study applies a stochastic frontier model …