Production Frontiers

by Rolf Fare, Shawna Grosskopf, C. A. Knox Lovell

Overview

This book presents a mathematical programming approach to the analysis of production frontiers and efficiency measurement. Using linear programming techniques, the authors construct a variety of production frontiers, and develop a model of efficient producer behavior and a taxonomy of possible types of departure from efficiency in various environments. This book provides a unique study in applied production analysis, and will be of interest to scholars and students of economics and operations research, and analysts in business and government.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521072069
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/14/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	5.94(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Production technology; 3. Input-based efficiency measurement; 4. Output-based efficiency measurement; 5. Indirect input-based efficiency measurement; 6. Indirect output-based efficiency measurement; 7. The measurement of price efficiency; 8. Graph efficiency measurement; 9. Efficiency measurement and productivity measurement; 10. Topics in efficiency measurement.

Editorial Reviews

"The book as a whole is cleanly executed and well written....I highly recommend the book as the basic reference on the mathematical-programming approach to the analysis of production frontiers." Journal of Economic Literature

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