Advanced robust and nonparametric methods in efficiency analysis : methodology and applications
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Advanced robust and nonparametric methods in efficiency analysis : methodology and applications
（Studies in productivity and efficiency / series editor, Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, R. Robert Russell）
Springer, c2010
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Bibliography: p. [221]-242
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Description
Providing a systematic and comprehensive treatment of recent developments in efficiency analysis, this book makes available an intuitive yet rigorous presentation of advanced nonparametric and robust methods, with applications for the analysis of economies of scale and scope, trade-offs in production and service activities, and explanations of efficiency differentials.
Table of Contents
Methodology.- The Measurement of Efficiency.- Statistical Inference in Nonparametric Frontier Estimation.- Nonparametric Robust Estimators: Partial Frontiers.- Conditional Measures Of Efficiency.- Applications.- Economies of Scale, Scope and Experience in the Italian Motor-Vehicle Sector.- Age, Scale and Concentration Effects in a Public Research System.- Exploring the Effects of Manager Tenure, Fund Age and their Interaction.- Conclusions.
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