Applications of Modern Production Theory: Efficiency and Productivity

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Comparison of Alternative Approaches to the Measurement of Productive Efficiency....Pages 3-32
A Comparison of DEA and Translog Estimates of Production Frontiers Using Simulated Observations from a Known Technology....Pages 33-55
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Stochastic Frontier Inefficiency and Firm Size for Selected Industries of the Belgian Manufacturing Sector: Some New Evidence....Pages 59-101
Sources of Differences in Agricultural Productivity Growth among Socialist Countries....Pages 103-130
Cost Pressures and Relative Productivity in Canadian Telecommunications Firms....Pages 131-148
Allocative Inefficiency in the Airline Industry: A Case for Deregulation....Pages 149-162
Capacity Utilization and Productivity Measurement: An Application to the U.S. Automobile Industry....Pages 163-193
The Effect of Shifts in the Composition of Employment on Labor Productivity Growth: Canada 1971–1979....Pages 195-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Measuring Shadow Price Efficiency....Pages 223-234
General Homothetic Production Correspondences....Pages 235-249
Efficiency in Production and Consumption....Pages 251-268
Back Matter....Pages 269-275