Factor hoarding and productivity : experience from Indian manufacturing / Dipika Das -- Concentration, profitability and (in)efficiency in large scale firms / H. Dudu and Y. Kılıçaslan -- Financial ratio analysis : an application to US energy induatry / M. Goto and T. Sueyoshi -- On measuring productivity growth in Indian industry : analysis of organized and unorganized sector in selected major states / Rajesh Raj S N and Mihir K. Mahapatra -- Technical efficiency of banks in Southeast Asia / E. Dogan and D.K. Fausten -- The effect of asset composition strategy on venture capital firm efficiency : an application of data envelopment analysis / E.J. Jeon, J.-D. Lee, and Y.-H. Kim -- Post crisis non-bank financial institutions productivity change : efficiency increase or technological progress? / F. Sufian and M.-Z. Abdul Majid -- The impact of the Wallis inquiry on Australian baking efficiency performance / S. Wu -- Performance ranking and management efficiency in colleges of business : a study at the department level in Taiwanese universities / T.-T. Fu and M.-Y. Huang -- Efficiency of the Korean defense industry : a stochastic frontier approach / Kyong-Ihn Jeong and A. Heshmati -- Performance measurement of agricultural cooperatives in Thailand : an accounting-based data envelopment analysis / W. Krasachat and K. Chimdul -- An empirical study on the performance of public financing for small business in Korea / Yongrok Choi -- The impact of agricultural loans on the technical efficiency of rice farmers in the upper north of Thailand / Y. (Kai) Chaovanapoonphol, G.E. Battese, and H.-S. (Christie) Chang -- Efficiency analysis of the digital content industry in Korea: an application of order-m frontier model / D.O. Choi and J.E. Oh -- Analysis on the technical efficiency and productivity growth of the Korean cable SOs : a stochastic frontier approach / K. Kim and A. Heshmati
Summary
Productivity growth is a keyword for sustainable economic growth in a knowledge-based society. There has been significant methodological development in the literature on productivity and efficiency analysis, e.g. SFA (Stochastic Frontier Analysis) and DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis). All these methodological developments should be matched with applications in order to provide practical implications for private and public decision-makers. This volume provides a collection of up-to-date and new applications of productivity and efficiency analysis. In particular, the case studies cover various ec
