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This book unifies and extends the definition and measurement of
economic efficiency and its use as a real-life benchmarking
technique for actual organizations. Analytically, the book relies
on the economic theory of duality as guiding framework.
Empirically, it shows how the alternative models can be implemented
by way of Data Envelopment Analysis. An accompanying software
programmed in the open-source Julia language is used to solve the
models. The package is a self-contained set of functions that
can be used for individual learning and instruction. The source
code, associated documentation, and replication notebooks are
available online. The book discusses the concept of economic
efficiency at the firm level, comparing observed to optimal
economic performance, and its decomposition according to technical
and allocative criteria. Depending on the underlying technical
efficiency measure, economic efficiency can be decomposed
multiplicatively or additively. Part I of the book deals with the
classic multiplicative approach that decomposes cost and revenue
efficiency based on radial distance functions. Subsequently, the
book examines how these partial approaches can be expanded to the
notion of profitability efficiency, considering both the input and
output dimensions of the firm, and relying on the generalized
distance function for the measurement of technical
efficiency. Part II is devoted to the recent additive
framework related to the decomposition of economic inefficiency
defined in terms of cost, revenue, and profit. The book presents
economic models for the Russell and enhanced graph Russell
measures, the weighted additive distance function, the directional
distance function, the modified directional distance function, and
the Hölder distance function. Each model is presented in a
separate chapter. New approaches that qualify and generalize
previous results are also introduced in the last chapters,
including the reverse directional distance function and the general
direct approach. The book concludes by highlighting the
importance of benchmarking economic efficiency for all business
stakeholders and recalling the main conclusions obtained from many
years of research on this topic. The book offers different
alternatives to measure economic efficiency based on a set of
desirable properties and advises on the choice of specific economic
efficiency models.
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