Advances in efficiency and productivity. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Juan Aparicio, C. A. Knox Lovell, Jesus T. Pastor, Editors.
• Editors: (Associate professor of statistics and operations research), Aparicio, Juan; Lovell, C. A. Knox; Pastor Ciurana, Jesús T
• Contents: Chapter 1. Editors' Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Reverse Directional Distance Function.- Chapter 3. On Measuring Technological Possibilities by Hypervolumes.- Chapter 4. Loss Distance Functions and Profit Function: General Duality Results.- Chapter 5. Exact Relationships between Fisher Indexes and Theoretical Indexes.- Chapter 6. Productivity Interpretations of the Farrell Efficiency Measures and the Malmquist Index and its Decomposition.- Chapter 7. On the use of DEA Models with Weight Restrictions for Benchmarking and Target Setting.- Chapter 8. Endogenous Common Weights as a Collusive Instrument in Frontier-Based Regulation.- Chapter 9. A Parameterized Scheme of Metaheuristics to Solve NP-Hard Problems in Data Envelopment Analysis.- Chapter 10. Producing Innovations: Determinants of Innovativity and Efficiency.- Chapter 11. Potential Coopetition and Productivity among European Automobile Plants.- Chapter 12. Measuring Eco-Efficiency using the Stochastic Frontier Analysis Approach.- Chapter 13. Bankruptcy Prediction of Companies in the Retail-Apparel Industry Using Data Envelopment Analysis.- Chapter 14. Banking Crises, Early Warning Models, and Efficiency.- Chapter 15. A Decomposition of the Energy Intensity Change in Spanish Manufacturing.- The Aging U.S. Farmer: Should We Worry?.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (415 pages)
• Subjects: 658.5; Economics; Industrial efficiency; Business & Economics -- Production & Operations Management; Management of specific areas; Management science; Econometrics; Production management; Business & Economics -- Econometrics; Econometrics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319484617
• Related ISBNs: 9783319484594
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