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Stochastic frontier analysis / Subal Kumbhakar and C. A. Knox Lovell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.Description: x, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521666633
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 000SB:338 23 K96
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Analytical foundations -- 3. The estimation of technical efficiency -- 4. The estimation and decomposition of cost efficiency -- 5. The estimation and decomposition of profit efficiency -- 6. The shadow price approach to the estimation and decomposition of economic efficiency -- 7. Incorporating exogenous influences on efficiency -- 8. The estimation of efficiency change and productivity change.
Summary: This book develops econometric techniques for the estimation of production, cost and profit frontiers.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. Introduction --
2. Analytical foundations --
3. The estimation of technical efficiency --
4. The estimation and decomposition of cost efficiency --
5. The estimation and decomposition of profit efficiency --
6. The shadow price approach to the estimation and decomposition of economic efficiency --
7. Incorporating exogenous influences on efficiency --
8. The estimation of efficiency change and productivity change.

This book develops econometric techniques for the estimation of production, cost and profit frontiers.

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