Overview: .An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis.is designed as a primer for anyone seeking an authoritativeintroduction to efficiency and productivity analysis. It is asystematic treatment of four relatively new methodologies inEfficiency/Production Analysis: (a) Least-Squares EconometricProduction Models, (b) Total Factor Productivity (TFP) Indices, (c)Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and (d) Stochastic Frontiers. Eachmethod is discussed thoroughly. First, the basic elements of eachmethod are discussed using models to illustrate the method‘sfundamentals, and, second, the di
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