Advances in Efficiency and Productivity II (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science Book 287)

This book surveys the state-of-the-art in efficiency and productivity analysis, examining advances in the analytical foundations and empirical applications. The analytical techniques developed in this book for efficiency provide alternative ways of defining optimum outcome sets, typically as a (technical) production frontier or as an (economic) cost, revenue or profit frontier, and alternative ways of measuring efficiency relative to an appropriate frontier. Simultaneously, the analytical techniques developed for efficiency analysis extend directly to productivity analysis, thereby providing alternative methods for estimating productivity levels, and productivity change through time or productivity variation across producers. This book includes chapters using data envelopment analysis (DEA) or stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) as quantitative techniques capable of measuring efficiency and productivity. Across the book’s 15 chapters, it broadly extends into popular application areas including agriculture, banking and finance, and municipal performance, and relatively new application areas including corporate social responsibility, the value of intangible assets, land consolidation, and the measurement of economic well-being. The chapters also cover topics such as permutation tests for production frontier shifts, new indices of total factor productivity, and also randomized controlled trials and production frontiers. Front Matter ....Pages i-vi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction (Juan Aparicio, C. A. Knox Lovell, Jesus T. Pastor, Joe Zhu)....Pages 3-8 Front Matter ....Pages 9-9 New Definitions of Economic Cross-efficiency (Juan Aparicio, José L. Zofío)....Pages 11-32 Evaluating Efficiency in Nonhomogeneous Environments (Sonia Valeria Avilés-Sacoto, Wade D. Cook, David Güemes-Castorena, Joe Zhu)....Pages 33-52 Testing Positive Endogeneity in Inputs in Data Envelopment Analysis (Juan Aparicio, Lidia Ortiz, Daniel Santin, Gabriela Sicilia)....Pages 53-66 Modelling Pollution-Generating Technologies: A Numerical Comparison of Non-parametric Approaches (K Hervé Dakpo, Philippe Jeanneaux, Laure Latruffe)....Pages 67-85 On the Estimation of Educational Technical Efficiency from Sample Designs: A New Methodology Using Robust Nonparametric Models (Juan Aparicio, Martín González, Daniel Santín, Gabriela Sicilia)....Pages 87-105 Local Circularity of Six Classic Price Indexes (Jesús T. Pastor, C. A. Knox Lovell)....Pages 107-123 Robust DEA Efficiency Scores: A Heuristic for the Combinatorial/Probabilistic Approach (Juan Aparicio, Juan F. Monge)....Pages 125-142 Front Matter ....Pages 143-143 Corporate Social Responsibility and Firms’ Dynamic Productivity Change (Magdalena Kapelko)....Pages 145-158 A Novel Two-Phase Approach to Computing a Regional Social Progress Index (Vincent Charles, Tatiana Gherman, Ioannis E. Tsolas)....Pages 159-172 A Two-Level Top-Down Decomposition of Aggregate Productivity Growth: The Role of Infrastructure (Luis Orea, Inmaculada Álvarez-Ayuso, Luis Servén)....Pages 173-191 European Energy Efficiency Evaluation Based on the Use of Super-Efficiency Under Undesirable Outputs in SBM Models (Roberto Gómez-Calvet, David Conesa, Ana Rosa Gómez-Calvet, Emili Tortosa-Ausina)....Pages 193-208 Probability of Default and Banking Efficiency: How Does the Market Respond? (Claudia Curi, Ana Lozano-Vivas)....Pages 209-220 Measuring Global Municipal Performance in Heterogeneous Contexts: A Semi-nonparametric Frontier Approach (José Manuel Cordero, Carlos Díaz-Caro, Cristina Polo)....Pages 221-238 The Impact of Land Consolidation on Livestock Production in Asturias’ Parishes: A Spatial Production Analysis (Inmaculada Álvarez, Luis Orea, José A. Pérez-Méndez)....Pages 239-259 Back Matter ....Pages 261-267