Table of Contents:
  • Production frontiers and productive efficiency / C.A. Knox Lovell
  • The econometric approach to efficiency analysis / William H. Greene
  • The mathematical programming approach to efficiency analysis / Agha Iqbal Ali and Lawrence M. Seiford
  • Efficiency and productivity / Shawna Grosskopf
  • Earnings frontiers and labor market efficiency / Janet C. Hunt-McCool and Ronald S. Warren, Jr.
  • Unionization and productive efficiency / Linda Cavalluzzo and Dennis Baldwin
  • Do physicians minimize cost? / B. Kelly Eakin
  • A production frontier model with flexible temporal variation in technical inefficiency / Young Hoon Lee and Peter Schmidt
  • Technical efficiency and technical progress in Swedish dairy farms / Subal C. Kumbhakar and Lennart Hjalmarsson
  • Technical efficiency in New Jersey school districts / Therese A. McCarty and Suthathip Yaisawarng
  • Share tenancy and efficiency in U.S. agriculture / Hyunok Lee and Agapi Somwaru
  • Cost efficiency in Belgian municipalities / Philippe Vanden Eeckaut, Henry Tulkens, and Marie-Astrid Jamar
  • (cont.) Technical efficiency in veterans administration hospitals / James F. Burgess, Jr. and Paul W. Wilson
  • Productivity growth in Norwegian ferries / Finn R. FΆrsund
  • Efficiency and competition in O.E.C.D. financial services / Fabienne Fecher and Pierre Pestieau