This paper analyzes productivity growth in 17 OECD countries over the period 1979-1988.
A nonparametric programming method (activity analysis) is used to compute Malmquist …

Production technology is commonly modelled by means of a production function, which in
the scalar output case specifies the maximum output obtainable from an input vector. The …

In a recent paper in this journal Seiford and Zhu [Eur. J. Operat. Res. 142 (2002) 16] propose
using data translation as a means of integrating undesirable outputs and inputs into data …

During my visit at the economics department at Vanderbilt University I had the opportunity to
teach a class in production theory. This text is the lecture notes that I developed for that …

Multilateral productivity comparisons of firms producing multiple outputs, some of which are
undesirable, are obtained by making two modifications to the standard Farrell approach to …

We use a quadratic directional output distance function to measure the technical efficiency
of 209 electric utilities that produce electricity and a polluting byproduct, SO 2 before (1993) …

This chapter describes network DEA models, where a network consists of sub-technologies.
A DEA model typically describes a technology to a level of abstraction necessary for the …

This study derives the relationship between environmental production functions and
environmental directional distance functions. These two approaches make different assumptions …

… This generalization was originally developed in a single-output context by Färe (1975),
and was modified by Färe and Lovell (1978), and again by Zieschang (1984). It was later …

Tyteca [J. Environ. Manage. 46 (1996) 281] reviews the literature on environmental performance
indicators. In that paper he calls for an index that simultaneously accounts for resources …