The concept of technical efficiency is central to measuring the firm performance. The
measurement of technical efficiency has proved difficult and complex, and the literature …

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 …

Chapter 1 describes two broad paradigms for measuring economic efficiency, one based on
an essentially nonparametric, programming approach to analysis of observed outcomes …

When Harold Fried, et al. published The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques
and Applications with OUP in 1993, the book received a great deal of professional interest …

Our objective in this paper is to explain a method to decompose the sources of total factor
productivity (TFP) growth into technological progress and changes in technical efficiency …

The paper proposes a stochastic frontier model with random coefficients to separate
technical inefficiency from technological differences across firms, and free the frontier model …

This article studies trade-offs of farms in terms of economic sustainability (proxied here by
technical efficiency), environmental sustainability (proxied here by farmers' commitment …

In this article, we use a stochastic frontier latent class model to estimate the technology of
dairy farms according to their degree of intensification. The results are compared with a …

The aim in this article is to measure the scale efficiency of the New Zealand dairy industry
and to examine the relationship between farm size and technical efficiency. Data …

This paper introduces the various methods that have been used to analyse productivity.
Productivity is defined as the ratio of output to input for a specific production situation …