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An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
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The second edition of this book has been written for the same audience as the first
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edition. It is designed to be a "first port of call" for people wishing to study efficiency and
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productivity analysis. The book provides an accessible introduction to the four principal
methods involved: econometric estimation of average response models; index numbers;
eBook data envelopment analysis (DEA); and stochastic firontier analysis (SFA). For each method,
we provide a detailed introduction to the basic concepts, give some simple numerical
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examples, discuss some of the more important extensions to the basic methods, and
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provide references for further reading. In addition, we provide a number of detailed
empirical applications using real-world data. The book can be used as a textbook or as a
MyCopy reference text. As a textbook, it probably contains too much material to cover in a single
semester, so most instructors will want to design a course around a subset of chapters. For
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example, Chapter 2 is devoted to a review of production economics and could probably
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be skipped in a course for graduate economics majors. However, it should prove useful
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to undergraduate students and those doing a major in another field, such as business
management or health studies.
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