/ edited by Harold O. Fried, C.A. Knox Lovell, Shelton S. Schmidt
New York
: Oxford University Press,
, 1993.
xii, 426 p.
: ill ; 24 cm.
e
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
(cont.) Technical efficiency in veterans administration hospitals / James F. Burgess, Jr. and Paul W. Wilson -- Productivity growth in Norwegian ferries / Finn R. F??rsund -- Efficiency and competition in O.E.C.D. financial services / Fabienne Fecher and Pierre Pestieau -- Efficiency and productivity growth in U.S banking / Paul W. Bauer, Allen N. Berger, and David B. Humphrey.
Production frontiers and productive efficiency / C. A. Knox Lovell -- The econometric approach to efficiency analysis / William H. Greene --The mathematical programming approach to efficiency analysis / Agha Iqbal Ali and Lawrence M. Seiford -- Efficiency and productivity / Shawna Grosskopf -- Earnings frontiers and labor market efficiency / Janet C. Hunt-McCool and Ronald S. Warren, Jr. -- Unionization and productive efficiency / Linda Cavalluzzo and Dennis Baldwin -- Do physicians minimize cost? / B. Kelly Eakin -- A production frontier model with flexible temporal variation in technical inefficiency / Young Hoon Lee and Peter Schmidt -- Technical efficiency and technical progress in Swedish dairy farms / Subal C. Kumbhakar and Lennart Hjalmarsson -- Technical efficiency in New Jersey school districts / Therese A. McCarty and Suthathip Yaisawarng -- Share tenancy and efficiency in U.S. agriculture / Hyunok Lee and Agapi Somwaru -- Cost efficiency in Belgian municipalities / Philippe Vanden Eeckaut, Henry Tulkens, and Marie-Astrid Jamar.