Production Frontiers

by Rolf Fare, C.A. Knox Lovell, Shawna Grosskopf, et al.

Book Overview

This book presents a mathematical programming approach to the analysis of production frontiers and efficiency measurement. The authors construct a variety of production frontiers, and by measuring distances to them are able to develop a model of efficient producer behaviour and a taxonomy of possible types of departure from efficiency in various environments. Linear programming is used as an analytical and computational technique in order to accomplish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521072069
• ISBN13: 9780521072069
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"