Efficiency Analysis by Production Frontiers the Nonparametric Approach
by Jati K. Sengupta
1 Efficiency Analysis in Production -- 1.1 Partial and General Equilibrium Models -- 1.2 Production Frontier as Flexible Production Functions -- 1.3 Parametric Forms and their Econometric Estimation -- 1.4 Nonparametric Theory: Different Facets -- 1.5 Implications of Nonparametric Theory -- 2 The Nonparametric Approach -- 2.1 Convex Hull Method -- 2.2 Stochastic Micro and Macro Frontier -- 2.3 Data Envelopment Analysis -- 2.4 Consistency Approach through Data Adjustment -- 2.5 Distribution of Technical and Price Efficiency -- 3 Interface With Parametric Theory -- 3.1 Average versus Optimal Production Function -- 3.2 Estimation of Production Frontier -- 3.3 Robust Methods of Estimation -- 3.4 Data Screening and Cluster Analysis -- 3.5 Problems in Parametric Theory -- 4 Implications of Nonparametric Theory -- 4.1 Economic Implications -- 4.2 Econometrics and Minimax Frontiers -- 4.3 The Regression and Index Number Problem -- 4.4 Joint Costs and Nonlinear Frontiers -- 4.5 Efficiency Analysis in the Stochastic Case -- 5 Extensions of Nonparametric Approach -- 5.1 Economic Generalizations -- 5.2 Extensions of Data Envelopment Analysis -- 5.3 Combining Parametric and Nonparametric Models -- 5.4 Nonparametric Regression and Bootstrap Methods -- 5.5 Distribution of Technical and Price Efficiency -- 6 Applications of Nonparametric Theory -- 6.1 Production in Quasi-Market and Non-Market Systems -- 6.2 Managerial Models in Operations Research -- 6.3 Economic Development and International Trade -- 6.4 Stochastic Programming and Markov Process Models -- 6.5 Multivariate Data Analysis and Information Theory -- Author Index.
