efficiency -- Part I -- Chapter 3: Shephard’s input and output distance functions: cost and revenue efficiency decompositions … -- Chapter 4: The generalized distance function (GDF): Profitability efficiency decomposition -- Part II -- Chapter 5: The …This book unifies and extends the definition and measurement of economic efficiency and its use as a real …

Bhattacharyya, Levent Kutlu, and Robin C. Sickles -- 14. Aggregation of individual efficiency measures and productivity indices … measurement of efficiency, productivity, growth and performance. These concepts are commonly measured residually and difficult to … quantify in practice. In real-life applications, efficiency and productivity estimates are often quite sensitive to the models …

“the Impact of a Choice (or Natural Event) on Economic Efficiency” -- “First-Best,” “Second-Best,” and “Third …-Cost, and Profit Distortions -- Some Negative and Positive Implications of the TBLE Distortion-Analysis Protocol for Economic-Efficiency … Prediction/Post-Diction -- The Approach That Would Be TBLE for a Government to Take to Economic-Efficiency Prediction …

Fiscal Decentralization Reforms and Local Government Efficiency: An Introduction -- Fiscal Decentralization in Bulgaria … and Efficiency: An Empirical Case Study of Small Municipalities in the Czech Republic -- Conclusion and Public policy … Recommendation: Efficiency Improvement Through Managerial Approach and Accountability Mechanism. …

-- Chapter 3. Efficiency Driven Socio-Technical System Design -- Chapter 4. A Framework for the Assessment and Consolidation of …The volume examines the state-of-the-art of productivity and efficiency analysis. It brings together a selection of the … best papers from the 10th North American Productivity Workshop. By analyzing world-wide perspectives on challenges that …