Keyword

technical efficiency

Description: Technical efficiency is an economic measure of how effectively a producer converts inputs into outputs relative to the best attainable production frontier.

Primary topic: Efficiency Analysis Using DEA (70%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/technical-efficiency

Efficiency Estimation from Cobb-Douglas Production Functions with Composed Error

1977 · Wim Meeusen, Julien van Den Broeck · International Economic Review · 6,241

Stochastic Frontier Analysis

2000 · Subal C. Kumbhakar, C. A. Knox Lovell · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 4,353

Frontier production functions, technical efficiency and panel data: With application to paddy farmers in India

1992 · G. E. Battese, T. J. Coelli · Journal of Productivity Analysis · 2,864

Managerial Fads and Fashions: The Diffusion and Rejection of Innovations

1991 · Eric Abrahamson · Academy of Management Review · 2,285

Prediction of firm-level technical efficiencies with a generalized frontier production function and panel data

1988 · George E. Battese, Tim J. Coelli · Journal of Econometrics · 1,941

Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?

2008 · Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger, et al. · American Economic Review · 1,858

Production Frontiers and Panel Data

1984 · Peter Schmidt, Robin C. Sickles · Journal of Business and Economic Statistics · 1,584

Multinationals, multi-plant economies, and the gains from trade

1984 · James R. Markusen · Journal of International Economics · 1,426

Metafrontier frameworks for the study of firm-level efficiencies and technology ratios

2007 · Christopher J. O’Donnell, D. S. Prasada Rao, et al. · Empirical Economics · 1,386

A Metafrontier Production Function for Estimation of Technical Efficiencies and Technology Gaps for Firms Operating Under Different Technologies

2004 · George E. Battese, D. S. Prasada Rao, et al. · Journal of Productivity Analysis · 1,278

Efficiency Analysis for Exogenously Fixed Inputs and Outputs

1986 · Rajiv D. Banker, Richard C. Morey · Operations Research · 1,243

Efficiency Estimation of Production Functions

1972 · S. N. Afriat · International Economic Review · 1,243

The Econometric Approach to Efficiency Analysis

2008 · William H. Greene · Oxford University Press eBooks · 1,214

Measuring the technical efficiency of production

1978 · Rolf Färe, C.A Knox Lovell · Journal of Economic Theory · 1,169

A Generalized Production Frontier Approach for Estimating Determinants of Inefficiency in U.S. Dairy Farms

1991 · Subal C. Kumbhakar, Soumendra Ghosh, et al. · Journal of Business and Economic Statistics · 1,155

Production frontiers with cross-sectional and time-series variation in efficiency levels

1990 · Christopher Cornwell, Peter Schmidt, et al. · Journal of Econometrics · 1,153

A general methodology for bootstrapping in non-parametric frontier models

2000 · Léopold Simar, Paul W. Wilson · Journal of Applied Statistics · 1,150

Data Envelopment Analysis

2000 · William W. Cooper, Lawrence M. Seiford, et al. · Springer eBooks · 1,079

One-Step and Two-Step Estimation of the Effects of Exogenous Variables on Technical Efficiency Levels

2002 · Hung-jen Wang, Peter Schmidt · Journal of Productivity Analysis · 1,045

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Characteristics of a polluting technology: theory and practice

2004 · Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, et al. · Journal of Econometrics · 925

Environmental production functions and environmental directional distance functions

2006 · R FARE, S GROSSKOPF, et al. · Energy · 808

Recent Developments in Frontier Modelling and Efficiency Measurement

1995 · Tim J. Coelli · Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics · 768

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The efficiency of Australian universities: a data envelopment analysis

2002 · M Abbott, C Doucouliagos · Economics of Education Review · 728

The impact of liberalization on the productive efficiency of Indian commercial banks

1997 · Arunava Bhattacharyya, C.A.K. Lovell, et al. · European Journal of Operational Research · 726

The role of multiplier bounds in efficiency analysis with application to Kansas farming

1990 · Russell G. Thompson, Larry N. Langemeier, et al. · Journal of Econometrics · 715

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Citation count: 345,300