An introduction to efficiency and productivity analysis

1. Introduction

2. Review of production economics

3. Productivity and efficiency measurement concepts

4. Index numbers and productivity measurement

5. Data and measurement issues

6. Data envelopment analysis

7. Additional topics on data envelopment analysis

8. Econometric estimation of production technologies

9. Stochastic frontier analysis

10. Additional topics on stochastic frontier analysis

11. calculation and decomposition of productivity change using frontier methods

12. Conclusions

App. 1. Computer software

App. 2. Philippines rice data.