This chapter reviews the modern frontier efficiency and productivity methodologies that have
been developed to analyze firm performance, emphasizing applications to the insurance …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses alternative approaches to measure the effects of
economic regulation and reviews the empirical literature employing these approaches …

This book develops econometric techniques for the estimation of production, cost and profit
frontiers, and for the estimation of the technical and economic efficiency with which …

This book presents a mathematical programming approach to the analysis of production
frontiers and efficiency measurement. The authors construct a variety of production frontiers …

The purpose of this chapter is to commemorate fifty years of research on economic
measurement. I have chosen a theme-economic growth and its sources-that has played a …

This paper addresses estimation and decomposition of productivity change, which is mostly
identified as technical change under constant (unitary) returns to scale (CRS). If the CRS …

This study investigates the relationship between environmental performance and productive
efficiency in the United States electric utility industry before and after the 1990 Clean Air Act …

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of productivity measurement. This
overview is selective: productivity measurement has a long history, much of which is not …

The role of trade policies in increasing growth and efficiency has long been a major focus in
the development literature. This paper examines the impact of different development …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents an exposition of econometric methods for
modeling producer behavior. The objective of econometric modeling is to determine the …