This book provides a comprehensive approach to productivity and efficiency analysis for upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals. An accompanying website includes programming codes that can be used with widely available software like MATLAB (R) and R, and test data for many of the estimators in the book.
Advance praise: 'The book thoroughly covers theory (index numbers, axiomatic production theory, DEA, FDH, stochastic models, inference) and practice of measurement of efficiency and productivity, including issues and sources of data with links, as well as links to software and models. A rigorous and truly indispensable guide - and all this and more in a mere 800 pages.' Rolf Fare and Shawna Grosskopf, Oregon State University
