Advances in Efficiency and Productivity

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?.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319839470
• ISBN13: 9783319839479
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 415 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"