International Applications of Productivity and Efficiency Analysis : A Special Issue of the Journal of Productivity Analysis

__International Applications of Productivity and Efficiency Analysis__ features a complete range of techniques utilized in frontier analysis, including extensions of existing techniques and the development of new techniques. Another feature is that most of the contributions use panel data in a variety of approaches. Finally, the range of empirical applications is at least as great as the range of techniques, and many of the applications are of considerable policy relevance. Front Matter....Pages i-iv Editors’ Introduction....Pages 1-1 Efficiency and Ownership in Swedish Electricity Retail Distribution....Pages 3-19 A Comparison of Parametric and Non-Parametric Efficiency Measures: The Case of Norwegian Ferries....Pages 21-39 Allowing for Inefficiency in Parametric Estimation of Production Functions for Urban Transit Firms....Pages 41-61 The Relative Efficiency of Public versus Private Municipal Bus Firms: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis....Pages 63-80 Productivity Changes in Swedish Pharamacies 1980–1989: A Non-Parametric Malmquist Approach....Pages 81-97 Variation in Productive Efficiency in French Workers’ Cooperatives....Pages 99-113 Technical Inefficiency and Productive Decline in the U.S. Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline Industry Under the Natural Gas Policy Act....Pages 115-129 Measuring Technical Efficiency in European Railways: A Panel Data Approach....Pages 131-147 Frontier Production Functions, Technical Efficiency and Panel Data: With Application to Paddy Farmers in India....Pages 149-165 Estimating Efficiencies from Frontier Models with Panel Data: A Comparison of Parametric, Non-Parametric and Semi-Parametric Methods with Bootstrapping....Pages 167-199

International Applications of Productivity and Efficiency Analysis features a complete range of techniques utilized in frontier analysis, including extensions of existing techniques and the development of new techniques. Another feature is that most of the contributions use panel data in a variety of approaches. Finally, the range of empirical applications is at least as great as the range of techniques, and many of the applications are of considerable policy relevance.