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Advances in Efficiency and Productivity

Author : Juan Aparicio

Publisher : Springer

Page : 411 pages

File Size : 10,2 MB

Release : 2016-12-23

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 3319484613

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This book grows from a conference on the state of the art and recent advances in Efficiency and Productivity. Papers were commissioned from leading researchers in the field, and include eight explorations into the analytical foundations of efficiency and productivity analysis. Chapters on modeling advances include reverse directional distance function, a new method for estimating technological production possibilities, a new distance function called a loss distance function, an analysis of productivity and price recovery indices, the relation of technical efficiency measures to productivity measures, the implications for benchmarking and target setting of imposing weight restrictions on DEA models, weight restrictions in a regulatory setting, and the Principle of Least Action. Chapters on empirical applications include a study of innovative firms that use innovation inputs to produce innovation outputs, a study of the impact of potential “coopetition” or cooperation among competitors on the financial performance of European automobile plants, using SFA to estimate the eco-efficiency of dairy farms in Spain, a DEA bankruptcy prediction model, a combined stochastic cost frontier analysis model/mixture hazard model, the evolution of energy intensity in nine Spanish manufacturing industries, and the productivity of US farmers as they age.



Advances in Efficiency and Productivity II

Author : Juan Aparicio

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 266 pages

File Size : 38,51 MB

Release : 2020-07-20

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 3030416186

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This book surveys the state-of-the-art in efficiency and productivity analysis, examining advances in the analytical foundations and empirical applications. The analytical techniques developed in this book for efficiency provide alternative ways of defining optimum outcome sets, typically as a (technical) production frontier or as an (economic) cost, revenue or profit frontier, and alternative ways of measuring efficiency relative to an appropriate frontier. Simultaneously, the analytical techniques developed for efficiency analysis extend directly to productivity analysis, thereby providing alternative methods for estimating productivity levels, and productivity change through time or productivity variation across producers. This book includes chapters using data envelopment analysis (DEA) or stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) as quantitative techniques capable of measuring efficiency and productivity. Across the book’s 15 chapters, it broadly extends into popular application areas including agriculture, banking and finance, and municipal performance, and relatively new application areas including corporate social responsibility, the value of intangible assets, land consolidation, and the measurement of economic well-being. The chapters also cover topics such as permutation tests for production frontier shifts, new indices of total factor productivity, and also randomized controlled trials and production frontiers.



Measurement of Productivity and Efficiency

Author : Robin C. Sickles

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 631 pages

File Size : 50,79 MB

Release : 2019-03-28

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 110703616X

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Provides a comprehensive approach to productivity and efficiency analysis using economic and econometric theory.



Advances in Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

Author : Christopher F. Parmeter

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 371 pages

File Size : 30,67 MB

Release : 2020-10-21

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 3030471063

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The volume examines the state-of-the-art of productivity and efficiency analysis. It brings together a selection of the best papers from the 10th North American Productivity Workshop. By analyzing world-wide perspectives on challenges that local economies and institutions may face when changes in productivity are observed, readers can quickly assess the impact of productivity measurement, productivity growth, dynamics of productivity change, measures of labor productivity, measures of technical efficiency in different sectors, frontier analysis, measures of performance, industry instability and spillover effects. The contributions in this volume focus on the theory and application of economics, econometrics, statistics, management science and operational research related to problems in the areas of productivity and efficiency measurement. Popular techniques and methodologies including stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis are represented. Chapters also cover broader issues related to measuring, understanding, incentivizing and improving the productivity and performance of firms, public services, and industries.



Global Productivity

Author : Alistair Dieppe

Publisher : World Bank Publications

Page : 552 pages

File Size : 48,69 MB

Release : 2021-06-09

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1464816093

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The COVID-19 pandemic struck the global economy after a decade that featured a broad-based slowdown in productivity growth. Global Productivity: Trends, Drivers, and Policies presents the first comprehensive analysis of the evolution and drivers of productivity growth, examines the effects of COVID-19 on productivity, and discusses a wide range of policies needed to rekindle productivity growth. The book also provides a far-reaching data set of multiple measures of productivity for up to 164 advanced economies and emerging market and developing economies, and it introduces a new sectoral database of productivity. The World Bank has created an extraordinary book on productivity, covering a large group of countries and using a wide variety of data sources. There is an emphasis on emerging and developing economies, whereas the prior literature has concentrated on developed economies. The book seeks to understand growth patterns and quantify the role of (among other things) the reallocation of factors, technological change, and the impact of natural disasters, including the COVID-19 pandemic. This book is must-reading for specialists in emerging economies but also provides deep insights for anyone interested in economic growth and productivity. Martin Neil Baily Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution Former Chair, U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisers This is an important book at a critical time. As the book notes, global productivity growth had already been slowing prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and collapses with the pandemic. If we want an effective recovery, we have to understand what was driving these long-run trends. The book presents a novel global approach to examining the levels, growth rates, and drivers of productivity growth. For anyone wanting to understand or influence productivity growth, this is an essential read. Nicholas Bloom William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University The COVID-19 pandemic hit a global economy that was already struggling with an adverse pre-existing condition—slow productivity growth. This extraordinarily valuable and timely book brings considerable new evidence that shows the broad-based, long-standing nature of the slowdown. It is comprehensive, with an exceptional focus on emerging market and developing economies. Importantly, it shows how severe disasters (of which COVID-19 is just the latest) typically harm productivity. There are no silver bullets, but the book suggests sensible strategies to improve growth prospects. John Fernald Schroders Chaired Professor of European Competitiveness and Reform and Professor of Economics, INSEAD



The Measurement of Productive Efficiency

Author : Harold O. Fried

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 442 pages

File Size : 19,18 MB

Release : 1993-04-22

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0195361105

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This work focuses on measuring and explaining producer performance. The authors view performance as a function of the state of technology and economic efficiency, with the former defining a frontier relation between inputs and outputs; the former incorporating waste and misallocation relative to this frontier. They show that insights can be gained by allowing for the possibility of a divergence between the economic objective and actual performance, and by associating this inefficiency with causal variables subject to managerial or policy influence. Derived from a series of lectures held on techniques and applications of the three approaches to the construction of production frontiers and measure of efficiency, this work will be an essential reference to scholars of a variety of disciplines who are involved with quantitative methods or policy.



An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

Author : Timothy J. Coelli

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 376 pages

File Size : 17,72 MB

Release : 2005-07-22

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780387242651

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Softcover version of the second edition Hardcover. Incorporates a new author, Dr. Chris O'Donnell, who brings considerable expertise to the project in the area of performance measurement. Numerous topics are being added and more applications using real data, as well as exercises at the end of the chapters. Data sets, computer codes and software will be available for download from the web to accompany the volume.



The Measurement of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Growth

Author : Harold O. Fried

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 653 pages

File Size : 37,99 MB

Release : 2008-02-04

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0198040504

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When Harold Fried, et al. published The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques and Applications with OUP in 1993, the book received a great deal of professional interest for its accessible treatment of the rapidly growing field of efficiency and productivity analysis. The first several chapters, providing the background, motivation, and theoretical foundations for this topic, were the most widely recognized. In this tight, direct update, these same editors have compiled over ten years of the most recent research in this changing field, and expanded on those seminal chapters. The book will guide readers from the basic models to the latest, cutting-edge extensions, and will be reinforced by references to classic and current theoretical and applied research. It is intended for professors and graduate students in a variety of fields, ranging from economics to agricultural economics, business administration, management science, and public administration. It should also appeal to public servants and policy makers engaged in business performance analysis or regulation.



Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research by 2030

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 243 pages

File Size : 18,19 MB

Release : 2019-04-21

Category : Science

ISBN : 0309473926

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For nearly a century, scientific advances have fueled progress in U.S. agriculture to enable American producers to deliver safe and abundant food domestically and provide a trade surplus in bulk and high-value agricultural commodities and foods. Today, the U.S. food and agricultural enterprise faces formidable challenges that will test its long-term sustainability, competitiveness, and resilience. On its current path, future productivity in the U.S. agricultural system is likely to come with trade-offs. The success of agriculture is tied to natural systems, and these systems are showing signs of stress, even more so with the change in climate. More than a third of the food produced is unconsumed, an unacceptable loss of food and nutrients at a time of heightened global food demand. Increased food animal production to meet greater demand will generate more greenhouse gas emissions and excess animal waste. The U.S. food supply is generally secure, but is not immune to the costly and deadly shocks of continuing outbreaks of food-borne illness or to the constant threat of pests and pathogens to crops, livestock, and poultry. U.S. farmers and producers are at the front lines and will need more tools to manage the pressures they face. Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research by 2030 identifies innovative, emerging scientific advances for making the U.S. food and agricultural system more efficient, resilient, and sustainable. This report explores the availability of relatively new scientific developments across all disciplines that could accelerate progress toward these goals. It identifies the most promising scientific breakthroughs that could have the greatest positive impact on food and agriculture, and that are possible to achieve in the next decade (by 2030).



Advance

Author : Ishan Galapathy

Publisher : BookPOD

Page : 330 pages

File Size : 39,22 MB

Release : 2021-05-18

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1922270512

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Solving day-to-day chaos doesn’t improve your business year-on-year. There is no shortage of ideas, yet implementation is a struggle. There are many problems to be solved, yet by hoping to solve many, you solve none. There is much data available, yet you fly blind without critical insights. Take control. Supercharge productivity and profitability of your business with ADVANCE. ADVANCE provides 12 essential elements with instructions, frameworks and templates to help implement, unlock, focus and shift your businesses journey to excellence. You will learn how to: · Harness your limited resources to propel your business. · Identify, prioritise and solve critical problems to unlock latent capacity. · Take effective action, track vital progress and deliver real results. · Develop the influential capabilities of your team. Getting effective traction in businesses is a challenge. By implementing the 12 essential elements in ADVANCE, you can expect Increased Agility and Integrated Alignment with your businesses strategic plan, and Improved Accountability and Intensified Awareness with your key team members to supercharge productivity, year-on-year. ADVANCE is your paint-by-numbers Operational Excellence guide. About the Author: Ishan Galapathy BEng (UNSW), MBA, Six Sigma (Black Belt) is a productivity thought leader, author, speaker and mentor renowned for his simplified techniques. He has more than two decades of experience with multinational companies within Asia Pacific. Through productivity improvement and frontline leadership development programs, Ishan helps manufacturing businesses move from Chaos to ExcellenceTM. Reviews: Very insightful, ADVANCE addresses our current priorities in an interactive way. The suggested elements within the ADVANCE framework are impactful and very practical. They are designed not only for a supply chain audience but for everyone who wants to improve productivity and efficiency within their business model. – Alexandra Riha, President and Board Chairperson, Australasian Supply Chain Institute (ASCI) "It is refreshing to read a book that integrates global insights on Operational Excellence (OpEx) with a uniquely Australian perspective. ADVANCE is a handy practical guide for organisations wanting to embark on an OpEx journey or refine what they have." - Barry McCarthy, President, Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) Australia "ADVANCE provides a simplified framework for supply chain businesses in particular to seriously shift their performance through productivity improvements. A practical read without jargon or heavy theory." - Joshua Holmes, Chairman, Supply Chain Logistics Association of Australia (SCLAA)