This study surveys the increasing research field of performance measurement by making
use of a bibliometric literature analysis. We concentrate on two approaches, namely Data …

The measurement of efficiency and productivity of health service delivery has become a
small industry. This is a review of 317 published papers on frontier efficiency measurement …

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 …

This paper examines several extensions of the stochastic frontier that account for
unmeasured heterogeneity as well as firm inefficiency. The fixed effects model is extended …

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

In this course we perform an introduction to Bayesian methods, we show some basic
definitions and properties of the bayesian approach. We have taken the content from the …

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 …

Most of the literature related to the measurement of economic efficiency has based its
analysis either on parametric or on non‐parametric frontier methods. The choice of …

This paper aims to estimate energy efficiency and quantify the energy-saving potential of
Indian iron and steel firms. Further, we explore the influence of different innovative capability …

Abstract A decade ago, Newhouse (1987) assessed the balance of trade between imports
from the econometrics literature into health economics, and exports from health economics …