Advances in Efficiency and Productivity II

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. New Definitions of Economic Cross-Efficiency.- Chapter 3. Evaluating Efficiency in Non-Homogeneous Environments.- Chapter 4. Testing Positive Endogeneity in Inputs in Data Envelopment Analysis.- Chapter 5. Modelling Pollution-Generating Technologies: A Numerical Comparison of Non-Parametric Approaches.- Chapter 6. On the Estimation of Educational Technical Efficiency from Sample Designs: A New Methodology using Robust Nonparametric Models.- Chapter 7. Local Circularity of Six Classic Price Indexes.- Chapter 8. Robust DEA efficiency scores: A heuristic for the combinatorial/probabilistic approach.- Chapter 9. Corporate Social Responsibility and Firms' Dynamic Productivity Change.- Chapter 10. A Novel Two-Phase Approach to Computing a Regional Social Progress Index.- Chapter 11. A Two-Level Top-Down Decomposition of Aggregate Productivity Growth:  The Role of Infrastructure.- Chapter 12. European energy efficiency evaluation based on the use of super efficiency under undesirable outputs in SBM models.- Chapter 13. Probability of Default and Banking Efficiency. How Does the Market Respond?- Chapter 14. Measuring Global Municipal Performance in Heterogeneous Contexts: A Semi-Nonparametric Frontier Approach.- Chapter 15. The Impact of Land Consolidation on Livestock Production in Asturias´ Parishes: A Spatial Production Analysis.