The Measurement of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Growth

By Harold O. Fried, C. Lovell, Shelton S. Schmidt. 2008

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Efficiency, Productivity and Environmental Policy: A Case Study of Power Generation in the EU (2012, methodology): “…within a DEA framework as T = (x, y, u) ∣∣∣∣∣∣∣∣∣∣ K ∑ k=1 λkymk ≥ ym, m = 1, . . . , M, K ∑ k=1 λkujk ≤ uj, j = 1, . . . , J, K ∑ k=1 λkxnk ≤ xn, n = 1, . . . , N, λk ≥ 0, k = 1, . . . , K (2) 1See Fried et al. (2008) for a thorough review of DEA and other methods of productivity analysis.”
The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility (2014, positive): “14 Using these notions, analysts of human development can draw on frontier production theory (Fried et al., 2008) and define the set of possible actions for people—their action spaces.”
Trajectories of efficiency measurement: A bibliometric analysis of DEA and SFA (2015, background): “Therefore the effects of the form might not get mixed with those of inefficiency (Fried et al., 2008).”
Evaluating efficient public good provision: Theory and evidence from a generalised conditional efficiency model for public libraries (2011, methodology): “To determine the efficiency of the evaluated libraries, we start from the best practice observations, i.e., the libraries that are using the least inputs x for a given amount of outputs y (this is the so-called input-orientation; for alternative orientations, see Fried et al., 2008).”
Regulatory Reform and Productivity Change in Indian Banking (2013, neutral): “9 For a general review of the methodological approaches to efficiency and productivity measurement, see, for instance, Fried, Lovell, and Schmidt (2008).”
What explains the performance of students in a heterogeneous environment? Conditional efficiency estimation with continuous and discrete environmental variables (2013, background): “In general, as summarized by Fried et al. (2008), they face one or several of the following drawbacks: (1) only either continuous or categorical exogenous variables can be used, (2) the effect of the environmental variable1 is required to be monotone in the production process, (3) the researcher…”
Analyzing Firm Performance in the Insurance IndustryUsing Frontier Efficiency and Productivity Methods (2011, neutral): “Then the revenue frontier is defined as (Fried et al. 2008): R.”
Stochastic non-smooth envelopment of data: semi-parametric frontier estimation subject to shape constraints (2012, methodology): “This is a common approach in the DEA literature (see, e.g., Fried et al., 2008).”