academic year 2020/2021

CHAPTER 1. CONVENTIONAL PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY CONCEPTS

Numerical example: productivity, efficiency and tecnical change (innovation)

Notes on chapter 1

Reading 1_6

Exercises chapter 1

Solution exercise 1

Solution exercises 3 and 4

CHAPTER 2. OUTPUT AND INPUT MEASUREMENT: PARTIAL PRODUCTIVITY INDICES AND AGGREGATION

Notes on chapter 2

Reading 2_1

Reading 2_2

Reading 2_7 

Cobb-Douglas and Translog Production Functions 

Case studies concerning future scenarios

Exercise productivity indices

Solution for exercise productivity indices

CHAPTER 3. THE FRONTIER APPROACH TO EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS

Notes on chapter 3

Reading 3_1

 Reading 3_2

 Reading 3_3

Notes on chapter 3.2 (primal, dual and economies of scale)

CHAPTER 4. EXTENSIONS ON FRONTIER EVALUATION

Notes on chapter 4

Reading 4.1

Script in R for Lesson 4  (Assurance Region models, Superefficiency, non-convex FDH technologies)

CHAPTER 5. INNOVATION AND TECHNICAL CHANGE

Notes on chapter 5

Reading 5.2

Reading 5.3

Reading 5.4

Reading 5.5

Data for script for Lesson 5

Script in R_for Lesson 5  (Malmquist Index Numbers)

Exercise lesson 05: Data for Malmquist

ARTICLES TO COMMENT

Article 1. Assigned to:  Wanqing Li, Nawfal Acha and Faiza Husnayeni Nahar.

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Article 3.  Assigned to: Khalid Bouazza, Miguel Casquet and Iván Romero

Article 4. Assigned to: Oscar Navarro Campàs and Fariza Bennafa

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Article 7. Assigned to: Elkin Javier Casas and Zhang Cheng

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Article 9. Assigned to:  Alessia Casamassima, Antonio di Bari and Enza Simeone

 Article 10. Assigned to: Shaowei Cai and Ruixiang Shi

Article 11. Assigned to: Ann-Sophie Kowalewski, Ani Hayrapetyan and Donato Pierno. 

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Article 16. Assigned to: Hugo Acosta, Rafael Córdova and Pol Guillaumes.

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Article 20. Assigned to: Tongxuan Gao, Yu Xiang, Yukun Liu. 

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PRESENTATIONS:

January 11: articles 16, 11, 10 and 3.

January 18: articles 20, 9, 7, 4 and 1.