International Applications of Productivity and Efficiency Analysis

Editors’ Introduction.- Efficiency and Ownership in Swedish Electricity Retail Distribution.- A Comparison of Parametric and Non-Parametric Efficiency Measures: The Case of Norwegian Ferries.- Allowing for Inefficiency in Parametric Estimation of Production Functions for Urban Transit Firms.- The Relative Efficiency of Public versus Private Municipal Bus Firms: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis.- Productivity Changes in Swedish Pharmacies 1980–1989: A Non-Parametric Malmquist Approach.- Variation in Productive Efficiency in French Workers’ Cooperatives.- Technical Inefficiency and Productive Decline in the U.S. Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline Industry Under the Natural Gas Policy Act.- Measuring Technical Efficiency in European Railways: A Panel Data Approach.- Frontier Production Functions, Technical Efficiency and Panel Data: With Application to Paddy Farmers in India.- Estimating Efficiencies from Frontier Models with Panel Data: A Comparison of Parametric, Non-Parametric and Semi-Parametric Methods with Bootsrapping.