Intertemporal Production Frontiers: With Dynamic DEA

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1 Introduction1.1 Motivation -- 1.2 Connection to Earlier Work -- 1.3 Production and Time -- 2 Static Production Structure -- 2.1 Technology Axioms -- 2.2 The Activity Analysis Model -- 2.3 A Model with Intermediate Inputs -- 2.4 Optimization -- 2.5 Environmental Regulation and Profitability -- 2.6 Notes on the Literature -- 2.A Appendix -- 3 Distance Functions and Productivity -- 3.1 Distance Functions -- 3.2 Malmquist Productivity Indexes -- 3.3 The Fisher and Törnqvist Productivity Indexes -- 3.4 Activity Analysis and Productivity -- 3.5 Productivity and Quality Changes in Swedish Pharmacies -- 3.6 Notes on the Literature -- 3.A Appendix -- 4 Biased and Embodied Technical Change -- 4.1 Hicks’ Neutral Technical Change -- 4.2 Biased Technical Change -- 4.3 Industrial Productivity Growth in China: 1980-84 vs. 1984-85 -- 4.4 On Vintage Technologies -- 4.5 Notes on the Literature -- 4.A Appendix -- 5 Indirect Production and Intertemporal Budgeting -- 5.1 The Cost Indirect Technology -- 5.2 The Intertemporal Budget Constraint -- 5.3 The Intertemporal Cost Indirect Technology -- 5.4 Output-Oriented Efficiency Measures in an Intertemporal Budgeting Framework -- 5.5 Intertemporal Budgeting and Efficiency -- 5.6 Notes on the Literature -- 6 Dynamic Production Models -- 6.1 The Product Technology -- 6.2 Time Substitution -- 6.3 The Basic Dynamic Technology -- 6.4 Storable Inputs -- 6.5 Dynamic Measurement of Efficiency: An Application to Western Public Grazing -- 6.6 Notes on the Literature -- 6.A Appendix -- References -- Author Index.

10.1007/978-94-009-1816-0 [DOI]

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