Table of Contents

Introduction.- Linear Production Model.- Production Functions.- Production Functions with Panel Data.- Introduction to Linear Programming.- Data Envelopment Analysis.- Stochastic Data Envelopment Analysis.- Stochastic Frontier Analysis.- Panel Data Stochastic Frontier Analysis.

About the Author

Prof. Dr. Andreas Behr has held a chair for Statistics at the University Duisburg-Essen since 2009. He studied economics and business administration in Frankfurt/Main, where he received his doctoral degree for a thesis on intra-industry trade. After spending three months as visiting researcher in Fukuoka, Japan, he completed his postdoctoral thesis on investment and liquidity constraints in Frankfurt. From 2003-2008 he taught at Muenster University. His research interests include efficiency analysis, economics statistics, panel data analysis and survey methods.