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Author:   Juan Aparicio ,  C. A. Knox Lovell ,  Jesus T. Pastor
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Volume:   249
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   7.568kg
ISBN:  

9783319484594

ISBN 10:   3319484591
Pages:   415
Publication Date:   02 January 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Editors' Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Reverse Directional Distance Function.- Chapter 3. On Measuring Technological Possibilities by Hypervolumes.- Chapter 4. Loss Distance Functions and Profit Function: General Duality Results.- Chapter 5. Exact Relationships between Fisher Indexes and Theoretical Indexes.- Chapter 6. Productivity Interpretations of the Farrell Efficiency Measures and the Malmquist Index and its Decomposition.- Chapter 7. On the use of DEA Models with Weight Restrictions for Benchmarking and Target Setting.- Chapter 8. Endogenous Common Weights as a Collusive Instrument in Frontier-Based Regulation.- Chapter 9. A Parameterized Scheme of Metaheuristics to Solve NP-Hard Problems in Data Envelopment Analysis.- Chapter 10. Producing Innovations: Determinants of Innovativity and Efficiency.- Chapter 11. Potential Coopetition and Productivity among European Automobile Plants.- Chapter 12. Measuring Eco-Efficiency using the Stochastic Frontier Analysis Approach.-Chapter 13. Bankruptcy Prediction of Companies in the Retail-Apparel Industry Using Data Envelopment Analysis.- Chapter 14. Banking Crises, Early Warning Models, and Efficiency.- Chapter 15. A Decomposition of the Energy Intensity Change in Spanish Manufacturing.- The Aging U.S. Farmer: Should We Worry?.

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Juan Aparicio is a Lecturer in the Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science at the Operations Research Center of University Miguel Hernandez, Alicante, Spain.  He earned his Ph.D. in Statistics in 2007 at the UMH.  He is Co-Chair (with Lovell Knox) of the Santander Chair on Efficiency and Productivity.  His research interests include Efficiency and Productivity Analysis and Game Theory. C. A. Knox Lovell is Honorary Professor with the Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland. He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Productivity Analysis for a decade. He has authored several books, including Production Frontiers (with Färe and Grosskopf) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (with Kumbhakhar) for Cambridge University Press. Jesus T. Pastor is a Professor in the Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Informatics at the Operations Research Center of University Miguel Hernandez, Alicante, Spain.  He earned his Bachelor’s, Master, and Ph.D., all in Mathematics, at the University of Valencia, and was awarded as one of the three most relevant Spanish Scientists of 2013 by the Scientific Spanish Association.  His research interests are in Productivity and Efficiency, Statistics, and Informatics.

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