Advanced Robust and Nonparametric Methods in Efficiency Analysis Methodology and Applications /

• Main Authors: Daraio, Cinzia (Author), Simar, Léopold (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Series: Studies in Productivity and Efficiency ; 4
• Subjects: Business.; Management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.

Providing a systematic and comprehensive treatment of recent developments in efficiency analysis, this readable book makes available an intuitive yet rigorous presentation of advanced nonparametric and robust methods. This flexible toolbox can be used in theories based on the neoclassical theory of...

Table of Contents:

• Methodology
• The Measurement of Efficiency
• Statistical Inference in Nonparametric Frontier Estimation
• Nonparametric Robust Estimators: Partial Frontiers
• Conditional Measures Of Efficiency
• Applications
• Economies of Scale, Scope and Experience in the Italian Motor-Vehicle Sector
• Age, Scale and Concentration Effects in a Public Research System
• Exploring the Effects of Manager Tenure, Fund Age and their Interaction
• Conclusions.