FRONTIER METHODOLOGIES: SURVEYS AND BOOKS

Surveys of Frontier Methodologies
(I= Introductory level; A= Advanced level)

Barrow, M., A. Wagstaff (1989) Efficiency Measurement in the Public Sector: An Appraisal, Fiscal Studies, 10(1), 72-89. I

Coelli, T., D.S.P. Rao, G.E. Battese (2005) An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, 2^nd Edition, Berlin, Springer. I

Färe, R., S. Grosskopf D. Margaritis (2008) Efficiency and Productivity: Malmquist and More, in: H. Fried, C.A.K. Lovell, S. Schmidt (eds) JThe Measurement of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Change, New York, Oxford University Press, 522-621. A

Førsund, F., C.A.K. Lovell, P. Schmidt (1980) A Survey of Frontier Production Functions and of their Relationship to Efficiency Measurement, Journal of Econometrics, 13(1), 5-25. A

Fried, H.O., C.A.K. Lovell, S.S. Schmidt (2008) Efficiency and Productivity, in: H. Fried, C.A.K. Lovell, S. Schmidt (eds) The Measurement of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Change, New York, Oxford University Press, 3-91. I

Hackman, S.T. (2008) Production Economics: Integrating the Microeconomic and Engineering Perspectives, Berlin, Springer.

Lovell, C.A.K. (1993) Production Frontiers and Productive Efficiency, in: H. Fried, C.A.K. Lovell, S. Schmidt (eds) The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques and Applications, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 3-67. A

Lovell, C.A.K. (2000) Measuring Efficiency in the Public Sector, in: J.L.T. Blank (ed) Public Provision and Performance: Contributions from Efficiency and Productivity Measurement, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 23-53. I

Murillo Zamorano, L.R. (2004) Economic Efficiency and Frontier Techniques, Journal of Economic Surveys, 18(1), 33-77. A

Schmidt, P. (1985-86) Frontier Production Functions, Econometric Reviews, 4(2), 289-328. A

Sudit, E.F. (1995) Productivity Measurement in Industrial Operations, European Journal of Operational Research, 85(3), 435-453. A

Surveys of Non-Parametric Frontier Methods (A)

Ali, A., L. Seiford (1993) The Mathematical Programming Approach to Efficiency Analysis, in: H. Fried, C.A.K. Lovell, S. Schmidt (eds) The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques and Applications, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 120-159.

Cherchye, L., T. Post (2003) Methodological Advances in DEA: A Survey and an Application for the Dutch Electricity Sector, Statistica Neerlandica, 57(4), 410-438.

Cook, W.D., L.M. Seiford (2009) Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) - Thirty Years on, European Journal of Operational Research, 192(1), 1-17.

Cooper, W.W., L.M. Seiford, K. Tone (2000) Data Envelopment Analysis: A Comprehensive Text with Models, Applications, References and DEA-Solver Software, Boston, Kluwer.

Cooper, W.W., L.M. Seiford, J. Zhu eds (2004) Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis, Kluwer, Boston.

Färe, R., S. Grosskopf, C.A.K. Lovell (1994) Production Frontiers, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Grosskopf, S. (1996) Statistical Inference and Nonparametric Efficiency: A Selective Survey, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 7(2-3), 161-176.

Lovell, C.A.K. (1994) Linear Programming Approaches to the Measurement and Analysis of Productive Efficiency, TOP, 2(2), 175-224.

Ray, S.C. (2004) Data Envelopment Analysis, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Seiford, L., R.M. Thrall (1990) Recent Developments in DEA: The Mathematical Programming Approach to Frontier Analysis, Journal of Econometrics, 46(1-2), 7-38.

Simar, L., P.W. Wilson (2000) Statistical Inference in Nonparametric Frontier Models: The State of the Art, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 13(1), 49-78.

Simar, L., P.W. Wilson (2004) Performance of the Bootstrap for DEA Estimators and Iterating the Principle, in: W.W. Cooper, L.M. Seiford, J. Zhu (eds) Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis, Kluwer, Boston, 265-298.

Simar, L., P.W. Wilson (2008) Statistical Inference in Nonparametric Frontier Models: Recent Developments and Perspectives, in: H. Fried, C.A.K. Lovell, S. Schmidt (eds) The Measurement of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Change, New York, Oxford University Press, 421-521.

Thanassoulis, E., M.C.S. Portela, O. Despic (2008) DEA - The Mathematical Programming Approach to Efficiency Analysis, in: H. Fried, C.A.K. Lovell, S. Schmidt (eds) The Measurement of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Change, New York, Oxford University Press, 251-420.

Zhu, J. (2002) Quantitative Models for Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking: Data Envelopment Analysis with Spreadsheets and DEA Excel Solver, Kluwer, Boston.

Surveys of Parametric Frontier Methods (A)

Bauer, P. (1990) Recent Developments in the Econometric Estimation of Frontiers, Journal of Econometrics, 46(1-2), 39-56.

Greene, W.H. (1993) The Econometric Approach to Efficiency Analysis, in: H. Fried, C.A.K. Lovell, S. Schmidt (eds) The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques and Applications, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 68-119.

Greene, W.H. (1997) Frontier Production Functions, in: M.H. Pesaran, M.R. Wickens (eds) Handbook of Applied Econometrics, Vol. II Microeconomics, Oxford, Blackwell, 81-166.

Greene, W.H. (2008) The Econometric Approach to Efficiency Analysis, in: H. Fried, C.A.K. Lovell, S. Schmidt (eds) The Measurement of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Growth, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 92-250.

Koop, G., M. Steel (2001) Bayesian Analysis of Stochastic Frontier Models, in: B.H. Baltagi (ed.) A Companion to Theoretical Econometrics, Oxford, Blackwell, 520-537.

Kumbhakar, S.C., C.A.K. Lovell (2000) Stochastic Frontier Analysis: An Econometric Approach, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Lovell, C.A.K. (1995) Econometric Efficiency Analysis: A Policy-Oriented Review, European Journal of Operational Research, 80(3), 452-461.