Temporal technical and profit efficiency measurement: Definitions, duality and aggregation results

Temporal technical and profit efficiency measurement: Definitions, duality and aggregation results

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Article ID: iaor20071007
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 103
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 48
End Page Number: 63
Publication Date: Jan 2006
Journal: International Journal of Production Economics
Authors: , ,
Abstract:

The shortage function, an important tool in production theory, measures potential increases in outputs and decreases in inputs for a given direction g at a given date. To develop a temporal version of technical efficiency measurement, we introduce the concept of a temporal shortage function. This temporal efficiency measure is easily computed using linear programming. We also establish a duality result stating that the temporal profit function and the temporal shortage function are dual to one another. This result has two consequences. First, one can derive a shadow price path via the shadow prices of the temporal shortage function. Second, transposing the classic Farrell inefficiency decomposition, temporal profit efficiency is decomposed into temporal technical and temporal allocative efficiency components. Finally, in line with the recent literature on aggregation over firms, this contribution treats the possibilities and limits of the aggregation of efficiency measures over time.

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