Intertemporal Production Frontiers: With Dynamic DEA

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Motivation.- 1.2 Connection to Earlier Work.- 1.3 Production and Time.- 2 Static Production Structure.- 2.1 Technology Axioms.- 2.2 The Activity Analysis Model.- 2.3 A Model with Intermediate Inputs.- 2.4 Optimization.- 2.5 Environmental Regulation and Profitability.- 2.6 Notes on the Literature.- 2.A Appendix.- 3 Distance Functions and Productivity.- 3.1 Distance Functions.- 3.2 Malmquist Productivity Indexes.- 3.3 The Fisher and Törnqvist Productivity Indexes.- 3.4 Activity Analysis and Productivity.- 3.5 Productivity and Quality Changes in Swedish Pharmacies.- 3.6 Notes on the Literature.- 3.A Appendix.- 4 Biased and Embodied Technical Change.- 4.1 Hicks’ Neutral Technical Change.- 4.2 Biased Technical Change.- 4.3 Industrial Productivity Growth in China: 1980–84 vs. 1984–85.- 4.4 On Vintage Technologies.- 4.5 Notes on the Literature.- 4.A Appendix.- 5 Indirect Production and Intertemporal Budgeting.- 5.1 The Cost Indirect Technology.- 5.2 The Intertemporal Budget Constraint.- 5.3 The Intertemporal Cost Indirect Technology.- 5.4 Output-Oriented Efficiency Measures in an Intertemporal Budgeting Framework.- 5.5 Intertemporal Budgeting and Efficiency.- 5.6 Notes on the Literature.- 6 Dynamic Production Models.- 6.1 The Product Technology.- 6.2 Time Substitution.- 6.3 The Basic Dynamic Technology.- 6.4 Storable Inputs.- 6.5 Dynamic Measurement of Efficiency: An Application to Western Public Grazing.- 6.6 Notes on the Literature.- 6.A Appendix.- References.- Author Index.

`Most researchers in efficiency measurement will be familiar with the work of Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf, who have done much to ensure that the development of production theory has been on a secure foundation, and that theory is linked to practical application. This admirably concise book is in a sense a summary of their work to date. The authors are to be congratulated on producing a well organized and well written book. ... I would unreservedly recommend this book for specialist graduate courses and research students. ... will undoubtedly be an important stimulus for researchers in the future.'
Journal of the Opereational Research Society, 48:6 (1997)