Table of Contents

One.- 1 A Comparison of Alternative Approaches to the Measurement of Productive Efficiency.- 2 A Comparison of DEA and Translog Estimates of Production Frontiers Using Simulated Observations from a Known Technology.- Two.- 3 Shastic Frontier Inefficiency and Firm Size for Selected Industries of the Belgian Manufacturing Sector: Some New Evidence.- 4 Sources of Differences in Agricultural Productivity Growth Among Socialist Countries.- 5 Cost Pressures and Relative Productivity in Canadian Telecommunications Firms.- 6 Allocative Inefficiency in the Airline Industry: A Case for Deregulation.- 7 Capacity Utilization and Productivity Measurement: An Application to the U.S. Automobile Industry.- 8 The Effect of Shifts in the Composition of Employment on Labor Productivity Growth: Canada 1971–1979.- Three.- 9 Measuring Shadow Price Efficiency.- 10 General Homothetic Production Correspondences.- 11 Efficiency in Production and Consumption.- Index, author.- Index, subject.