Scale Efficiency and Productivity Change

By Bert M. Balk. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research

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Sources of efficiency gains in port reform: a DEA decomposition of a Malmquist TFP index for Mexico (2004, background): “See Grifell and Lovell (1999) and Balk (1999) for”
Technology as Problem-Solving Procedures and Technology as Input-Output Relations: Some Perspectives on the Theory of Production (2006, background): “Simar and Wilson [2000], Balk [2001] and Briec et al. [2004] for contributions and discussions).”
Multinationals Productivity Advantage: Scale or Technology? (2007, positive): “Specifically, the productivity analysis literature, such as Balk (2001), highlights the role of changes in scale economies for productivity growth. This is consistent with the notion of learning-bydoing effects as described by Lucas (1988). Intuitively, as output expands, workers and firms gain prof”
Testing the accuracy of DEA for measuring efficiency in education under endogeneity (2009, methodology): “Following Balk (2001) the scale elasticity value for any data point of the output distance function described for equation (2) is”
The Decomposition of Malmquist Productivity Indexes (2003, background): “ Balk (2001) and Ray (2001) offer critiques of the Simar & Wilson and Zofio & Lovell decomposition.”
A cross-country comparison of productivity growth using the generalised metafrontier Malmquist productivity index: with application to banking industries in Taiwan and China (2011, neutral): “Balk (2001) then extended Ray's (1998) idea to construct the SEC term in the MPI.”
Malmquist productivity index decompositions: a unifying framework (2007, methodology): “…one commonly 4Notice how potential technical change does not have to be led by a single producer, it is just the change between two periods productivity at optimal scale, which may be achieved by different producers in each period. accepted – see the critics by Ray and Desli (1997) and Balk (2001).”
The impact of regulatory reforms on cost structure, ownership and competition in Indian banking (2010, background): “Technological biases are more likely to occur in the case of multiple inputs - multiple outputs production 10 (Balk, 2001) and their presence is well documented in the literature on the banking industry (see Altunbas et al., 1999 among others).”
A Parametric Distance Function Approach for Malmquist Productivity Index Estimation (2001, background): “For more on this issue see Balk (2000) , F¨ are et al. (1994), Grifell-Tatj´ e and Lovell (1999) and Ray and Desli (1987).”
Measuring and decomposing agricultural productivity and profitability change (2010, neutral): “3) is that discussed by, for example, Balk (2001). The OME measure (3.”
Parametric Decomposition of a Generalized Malmquist Productivity Index (2002, methodology): “Balk (2001) derives an expression for measures of scale efficiency which can be directly computed from a fitted output-oriented translog distance function with variable returns to scale, generalizing the results obtained by Ray (1998) for the case of a translog production function.”