The relative efficiency of privately-owned and publicly-owned electric utilities is investigated
using theoretical and econometric models that allow for the effects of both ownership type …

Duality theory has been applied increasingly in recent years to study the structure of
production. A major advantage of using duality theory is that systems of input demand …

Few terrorist missions are suicidal. Most terrorist missions are against so-called soft targets
and embody fairly elaborate escape plans. The threat of the political terrorist generally …

We consider a professional sports league's use of a well-defined incentive mechanism,
revenue sharing, to encourage the desired behavior of teams in the league. The incentive …

The error-components approach to estimating allocative inefficiency imposes restrictive
assumptions on the distributions of the errors and functional form. The parametric approach …

A number of linear programming models purport to minimize the costs of emission control to
achieve ambient air quality standards. Many of the simulations incorporate the simplifying …

A systematic approach is described for determining the minimum level of model complexity
required to predict runoff in New Zealand catchments, with minimal calibration, at …

The Farrell's 1957 concept of technical efficiency can be measured in two ways, denoted
output and input technical efficiency. The empirical literature does not distinguish between …

This paper provides a bootstrap methodology for constructing confidence intervals for
means of DEA and econometrically estimated efficiency scores, Malmquist productivity …

A translog normalized restricted profit function is used to study the characteristics of the
production function for electric energy. The results indicate that fuel choice in existing steam …