Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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482295 | European Journal of Operational Research | 2010 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
We discuss the nonparametric approach to profit efficiency analysis at the firm and industry levels in the absence of complete price information. Two new insights are developed. First, we measure profit inefficiency in monetary terms using absolute shadow prices. Second, we evaluate all firms using the same input–output prices. This allows us to aggregate firm-level profit inefficiencies to the overall industry inefficiency. Besides the measurement of profit losses, the presented approach enables one to recover absolute price information from quantity data. We conduct a series of Monte Carlo simulations to study the performance of the proposed approach in controlled production environments.
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Authors
Timo Kuosmanen, Mika Kortelainen, Timo Sipiläinen, Laurens Cherchye,