Technical, allocative and economic efficiency measures are derived for a sample of swine producers in Hawaii using the parametric stochastic efficiency decomposition technique and nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA). Efficiency measures obtained from the two frontier approaches are...

Since economic reforms were initiated in 1978, Chinese industry has experienced dramatic changes in ownership structure and management system. Based on samples in seven three-digit industries in China during 1986-1990, this study evaluates the technical efficiency of enterprises by means of data...

This book provides new insights into the performance of key economies in the Asia-Pacific region during the last three decades. It critically examines productivity growth, factor accumulation and economic efficiency at both the macro and micro levels. The authors use a variety of empirical...