The Measurement of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Growth

Edited by

Harold O. Fried

C. A. Knox Lovell

Shelton S. Schmidt

2008

Contributors xiii

1 Efficiency and Productivity  3

Harold O. Fried, C. A. Knox Lovell, and Shelton S. Schmidt

2 The Econometric Approach to Efficiency Analysis 9  2

William H. Greene

3 Data Envelopment Analysis: The Mathematical Programming Approach to Efficiency Analysis   251

Emmanuel Thanassoulis,Maria C. S. Portela, and Ozren Despi′c

4 Statistical Inference in Nonparametric Frontier Models:Recent Developments and Perspectives 421

Léopold Simar and PaulW.Wilson

5 Efficiency and Productivity:Malmquist and More   522

Rolf F鋜e, Shawna Grosskopf, and Dimitri Margaritis

Index 623