Handbook of Production Economics

2022. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-981-10-3456-5
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 1787 Seiten, Buch mit Online-Zugang, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

This two-volume handbook includes state-of-the-art surveys in different areas of neoclassical production economics. Volume 1 covers theoretical and methodological issues only. Volume 2 includes surveys of empirical applications in different areas like manufacturing, agriculture, banking, energy and environment, and so forth.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ray, Subhash C

Chambers, Robert

Chambers, Robert G.

Kumbhakar, Subal

Kumbhakar, Subal C.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Produktionsmanagement, Qualitätskontrolle
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Produktionstechnik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Mikroökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Overview of Neoclassical Production Economics- Editors.- 2. Duality in Production Diewert (agreed).- 3. Multiproduct Technologies Fare--agreed.- 4. Elasticities of Substitution Russell--agreed.- 5. Conceptualization and Measurement of Technical Change and Productivity Growth Hulten or Jorgensen.- 6. Index Numbers Balk (provisionally agreed).- 7. Market Structures.- 8. Capacity Utilization Segerson and Squires--agreed.- 9. Regulation Bogetoft—agreed.- 10. Bad Outputs Murty and Russell--agreed.- 11. Dynamic Analysis of Production Stefanou--agreed.- 12. Production under Uncertainty Bob Chambers--agreed.- 13. Growth Theory—here I would include both Solow-Swan and the Endogenous Growth literature.- 14. Stochastic Frontier Analysis Subal Kumbhakar--agreed.- 15. Data Envelopment Analysis Subhash Ray--agreed.- 16. Functional Structure and Aggregation Dan Primont.- 17. Cost, Revenue, Profit Function Estimation—Lau—written to.- 18. Economies of Scale, Size, and Scope (will overlap with 8 and 9) Forsund and Podinovski--agreed.- 19. Activity Analysis Models (as distinct from DEA) ten Raa.- 20. Shadow Pricing –Finn only for DEA.- 21. Aggregation: From Firm to Sector and Higher Levels Zelenyuk maybe Pope.- 22. Physical and Bioeconomic Production Systems --Timo and Tim Coelli.- 23. nonconvex technologies-- Briec and Kerstens--agreed.- 24. distance functions—Fare and Chambers—agreed.- 25. Retrospective on Koopmans—Knox Lovell—agreed.- 26. Retrospective on Dual Cost Functions: Marc Nerlove (provisionally agreed).

Über Autor(innen)

Subhash C. Ray is professor in the Department of Economics, University of Connecticut, in Storrs, Connecticut, USA.Robert G. Chambers is professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, College Park in Maryland, USA.Subal Kumbhakar is professor in the Department of Economics, Binghamton University, in New York State, USA.