Synopsis
1. Introduction- William H. Greene and Thijs ten Raa
2. Micro foundations of earnings differences- Tirthatanmoy Das and Solomon W. Polachek
3. Performance: The output/input ratio- Thijs ten Raa
4. R&D, innovation and productivity- Pierre Mohnen
5. The choice of comparable DMUs and environmental variables- John Ruggiero 6. Data Envelopment Analysis with alternative returns to scale- Subhash Ray
7. Ranking methods within Data Envelopment Analysis- Nicole Adler and Nicola Volta 8. Distributional forms in Stochastic Frontier Analysis- Alexander D. Stead, Phill Wheat, and William H. Greene
9. Stochastic frontier models for discrete output variables- Eduardo Fe
10. Nonparametric statistical analysis of production- Camilla Mastromarco, Leopold Simar, and Paul W. Wilson
11. Bayesian performance evaluation- Mike G. Tsionas
12. Common methodological choices in parametric and non-parametric analyses of firms' performance- Luis Orea/Jose Zofio 13. Pricing inputs and outputs: Market prices versus shadow prices, market power, and welfare analysis- Aditi Bhattacharyya, Levent Kutlu, and Robin C. Sickles
14. Aggregation of individual efficiency measures and productivity indices- Andreas Mayer and Valentin Zelenyuk
15. Intermediate inputs and industry studies: Input-Output Analysis- Victoria Shestalova
16. Modelling environmental adjustments of production technologies: A literature review- K. Hervé Dakpo and Frederic Ang
17. An overview of issues in measuring the performance of national economies- Anthony Glass, Karligash Kenjegalieva, Robin C Sickles, and Thomas Weyman-Jones
18. Productivity indexes and national statistics: Theory, methods and challenges- W. Erwin Diewert and Kevin J. Fox
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