The second edition of this book has been written for the same audience as the first edition. It
is designed to be a" first port of call" for people wishing to study efficiency and productivity …

Thefirst objective of this paper is to develop a generic measureof scale efficiency for a
multiple-input multiple-output firm, using basic principles of modern production theory. The …

Two different Malmquist productivity indexes have been proposed. One I call partially
oriented because it is either output-or input-oriented, and the other is simultaneously output …

Some Remarks on Productivity and its Decompositions Page 1 Journal of Productivity
Analysis, 20, 459–474, 2003 © 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Manufactured in The …

In two widely cited but unpublished working papers, Simar and Wilson and Zofío and Lovell
proposed an alternative decomposition of the Malmquist Productivity Index, which retained …

In estimating productivity change over time, technical change is frequently miscalculated as
the geometric average of technological changes between two periods based on firm-specific …

This paper analyses hospital performance using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the
Malmquist productivity index. We follow two approaches to quantify movements in …

This paper deals with a special case of the non-homogeneity problem related to the
determination of the global benchmark technology when measuring productivity changes …

Our paper by adopting the latest advances on the probabilistic characterization of directional
distance functions as has been introduced by Daraio and Simar (2014), develops a …

The Spanish pharmaceutical industry underwent an important transformation during the
1990s. To survive under the new market conditions, labs had to refocus their competitive …