'The Measurement of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Change' Will Guide Readers from the Basic Models to the Latest, Cutting-Edge Extensions.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/db7986/the_measurement_of) has announced the addition of the "The Measurement of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Change" report to their offering. When Harold Fried, et al. published The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques and Applications with OUP OUP (in Northern Ireland) Official Unionist Party in 1993, the book received a great deal of professional interest for its accessible treatment of the rapidly growing field of efficiency and productivity analysis. The first several chapters, providing the background, motivation, and theoretical foundations for this topic, were the most widely recognized. In this tight, direct update, these same editors have compiled over ten years of the most recent research in this changing field, and expanded on those seminal seminal /sem·i·nal/ (sem´i-n'l) pertaining to semen or to a seed. sem·i·nal adj. Of, relating to, containing, or conveying semen or seed. chapters. The book will guide readers from the basic models to the latest, cutting-edge extensions, and will be reinforced by references to classic and current theoretical and applied research. It is intended for professors and graduate students in a variety of fields, ranging from economics to agricultural economics Agricultural economics originally applied the principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock - a discipline known as agronomics. Agronomics was a branch of economics that specifically dealt with land usage. , business administration, management science, and public administration. It should also appeal to public servants and policy makers engaged in business performance analysis or regulation. Key Topics Covered: Contributors xiii 1 Efficiency and Productivity Harold O. Fried, C. A. Knox Lovell, and Shelton S Shelton, city (1990 pop. 35,418), Fairfield co., SW Conn., on the Housatonic River opposite Derby; settled 1697, set off from Stratford 1789, inc. as a city 1915. Metal products, furniture, and electronic equipment are among the city's manufactures. . Schmidt 2 The Econometric e·con·o·met·rics n. (used with a sing. verb) Application of mathematical and statistical techniques to economics in the study of problems, the analysis of data, and the development and testing of theories and models. Approach to Efficiency Analysis William H. Greene 3 Data Envelopment Analysis  This article or section may be confusing or unclear for some readers.Please [improve the article] or discuss this issue on the talk page. : The Mathematical Programming Approach to Efficiency Analysis Emmanuel Thanassoulis,Maria C. S. Portela, and Ozren Despioc 4 Statistical Inference Inferential statistics or statistical induction comprises the use of statistics to make inferences concerning some unknown aspect of a population. It is distinguished from descriptive statistics. in Nonparametric Frontier Models: Recent Developments and Perspectives Leopold Simar and PaulW.Wilson 5 Efficiency and Productivity:Malmquist and More Rolf Fare, Shawna Grosskopf, and Dimitri Margaritis Index For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/db7986/the_measurement_of Source: Oxford University Press |
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