Advances in Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Difference Approach to Productivity Measurement and Exact Indicators.- Chapter 3. Efficiency Driven Socio-Technical System Design.- Chapter 4. A Framework for the Assessment and Consolidation of Productivity Stylized Facts.- Chapter 5. Water's Contribution to Agricultural Productivity over Space.- Chapter 6. A Survey of the use of copulas in Stochastic frontier models.- Chapter 7. Does Xistence of Ine ciency Matter to a Neoclassical Xorcist? Some Econometric Issues in Panel Stochastic Frontier Models.- Chapter 8. The two-tier stochastic frontier framework (2TSF): measuring frontiers wherever they may exist.- Chapter 9. Individual Efficient Frontiers in Performance Analysis.- Chapter 10. DEA models without inputs or outputs: A tour de force.- Chapter 11. U.S. Banking in the Post-Crisis Era: New Results from New Methods.- Chapter 12. Room to Move: Why Some Industries Drive the Trade-Specialization Nexus and Others Do Not.- Chapter 13. Expansionary Investment Activities: Assessing Equipment and Buildings in Productivity.- Chapter 14. Applying statistical methods to compare frontiers: Are organic dairy farms better than the conventional?- Chapter 15. Nutrient Use and Precision Agriculture in Corn Production in the United States.