Industrial Price, Quantity, and Productivity Indices

Industrial Price, Quantity, and Productivity Indices
Author: Bert M. Balk
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 147575454X

Industrial Price, Quantity, and Productivity Indices: The Micro-Economic Theory and an Application gives a comprehensive account of the micro-economic foundations of industrial price, quantity, and productivity indices. The various results available from the literature have been brought together into a consistent framework, based upon modern duality theory. This integration also made it possible to generalize several of these results. Thus, this book will be an important resource for theoretically as well as empirically-oriented researchers who seek to analyse economic problems with the help of index numbers. Although this book's emphasis is on micro-economic theory, it is also intended as a practical guide. A full chapter is therefore devoted to an empirical application. Three different approaches are pursued: a straightforward empirical approach, a non-parametric estimation approach, and a parametric estimation approach. As well as illustrating some of the more important concepts explored in this book, and showing to what extent different computational approaches lead to different outcomes for the same measures, this chapter also makes a powerful case for the use of enterprise micro-data in economic research.

Price and Quantity Index Numbers

Price and Quantity Index Numbers
Author: Bert M. Balk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2012-07-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107404967

This book is the first comprehensive text on index number theory since Irving Fisher's 1922 The Making of Index Numbers. The book covers intertemporal and interspatial comparisons; ratio- and difference-type measures; discrete and continuous time environments; and upper- and lower-level indices. Guided by economic insights, this book develops the instrumental or axiomatic approach.

Handbook of Production Economics

Handbook of Production Economics
Author: Subhash C. Ray
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1797
Release: 2022-06-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811034559

This three-volume handbook includes state-of-the-art surveys in different areas of neoclassical production economics. Volumes 1 and 2 cover theoretical and methodological issues only. Volume 3 includes surveys of empirical applications in different areas like manufacturing, agriculture, banking, energy and environment, and so forth.

Productivity and Efficiency Analysis

Productivity and Efficiency Analysis
Author: Christopher J. O'Donnell
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2018-12-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811329842

This book provides a coherent description of the main concepts and statistical methods used to analyse economic performance. The focus is on measures of performance that are of practical relevance to policy makers. Most, if not all, of these measures can be viewed as measures of productivity and/or efficiency. Linking fields as diverse as index number theory, data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis, the book explains how to compute measures of input and output quantity change that are consistent with measurement theory. It then discusses ways in which meaningful measures of productivity change can be decomposed into measures of technical progress, environmental change, and different types of efficiency change. The book is aimed at graduate students, researchers, statisticians, accountants and economists working in universities, regulatory authorities, government departments and private firms. The book contains many numerical examples. Computer codes and datasets are available on a companion website.

Advances in Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

Advances in Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
Author: Christopher F. Parmeter
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2020-10-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030471063

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.

NEP Business Statistics [B. Com. IIIrd Sem (Major)]

NEP Business Statistics [B. Com. IIIrd Sem (Major)]
Author: Dr. B. N. Gupta
Publisher: SBPD Publications
Total Pages: 639
Release: 2023-11-25
Genre: Education
ISBN:

1. Statistics : Meaning, Nature and Limitations, 2. Statistics : Scope and Importance, 3. Types and Collection of Data (Univariate, Bivariate, Multivariate, Time Series and Cross Section Data), 4. Classification and Tabulation of Data, 5. Diagrammatic Presentation of Data, 6. Graphic Presentation of Data, 7. Measures of Central Tendency, 8. Geometric Mean and Harmonic Mean, 9. Partition Values, 10. Measures of Dispersion, 11. Measures of Skewness, 12. Measures of Kurtosis, 13. Probability Theory, 14. Probability Distributions or Theoretical Frequency Distribution, 15. Correlation, 16. Regression Analysis, 17. Index Number, 18. Analysis of Time Series. Appendix (Log-Antilog Table).

Consumer Price Index Manual

Consumer Price Index Manual
Author: International Labour Office
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2004-08-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789221136996

The consumer price index (CPI) measures the rate at which prices of consumer goods and services change over time. It is used as a key indicator of economic performance, as well as in the setting of monetary and socio-economic policy such as indexation of wages and social security benefits, purchasing power parities and inflation measures. This manual contains methodological guidelines for statistical offices and other agencies responsible for constructing and calculating CPIs, and also examines underlying economic and statistical concepts involved. Topics covered include: expenditure weights, sampling, price collection, quality adjustment, sampling, price indices calculations, errors and bias, organisation and management, dissemination, index number theory, durables and user costs.

Advances in Efficiency and Productivity

Advances in Efficiency and Productivity
Author: Juan Aparicio
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2016-12-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319484613

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.

An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
Author: Timothy J. Coelli
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2005-07-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780387242651

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.

Measurement of Productivity and Efficiency

Measurement of Productivity and Efficiency
Author: Robin C. Sickles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 631
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 110703616X

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