This chapter defines the concepts of this Handbook - performance, productivity, efficiency, and profitability - and discusses the interrelations. The most prominent performance measure, total factor productivity growth, is grounded in activity analysis and related to Debreu's coefficient of...

Problems arise if budgets for services are held constant whilst prices rise. Education, cultural activities and health services are under constant budgetary pressure. The authors argue that the price of commodities is linked to demand and price increases would therefore seem to threaten the very...

1. Introduction- William H. Greene and Thijs ten Raa -- 2. Micro foundations of earnings differences- Tirthatanmoy Das and Solomon W. Polachek -- 3. Performance: The output/input ratio- Thijs ten Raa -- 4. R&D, innovation and productivity- Pierre Mohnen -- 5. The choice of comparable DMUs and...

This Handbook takes an econometric approach to the foundations of economic performance analysis. The focus is on the measurement of efficiency, productivity, growth and performance. These concepts are commonly measured residually and difficult to quantify in practice. In real-life applications,...

Contents: 1. Introduction / Thijs Ten Raa -- 2. Early days of the input-output table / Douglas S. Meade -- 3. The supply and use framework of national accounts / Joerg Beutel -- 4. The construction of input-output coefficients / José M. Rueda-Cantuche -- 5. Environmental footprints / Richard...