Parametric Decomposition of the Malmquist Index in Output-Oriented Distance Function: Productivity in Chinese Agriculture

Parametric Decomposition of the Malmquist Index in an Output-Oriented Distance Function: Productivity in Chinese Agriculture

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Parametric Decomposition of the Malmquist Index in Output-Oriented Distance Function: Productivity in Chinese Agriculture

This paper decomposes the Malmquist productivity index into several assembling components: technical change (further break down into technical change magnitude, input bias and output bias), technical efficiency change, scale efficiency change, and output-mix effect. A translog output distance function is chosen to represent the production technology and each component of the Malmquist index is ...

The interval Malmquist productivity index in DEA

One of the most popular approaches to measuring productivity changes is based on using Malmquist productivity indexes. In this paper we propose a method for obtaining interval Malmquist productivity index (IMPI). The classical DEA models have been before used for measuring the Malmquist productivity index. The current article extends DEA models for measuring the interval Malmquist productivity ...

Productivity and Efficiency in Chinese Agriculture: a Distance Function Approach

The study is devoted to the measurement of productivity and efficiency change in Chinese farming sector over the reform process in the 1980s and 1990s. Within an output distance function framework, an index of total factor productivity is decomposed into technical and allocative efficiency, technical change, and scale effects. We estimate a parametric output distance function using individual f...

On An Extended Decomposition of the Malmquist Productivity Index