Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/147432 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Memorandum No. 14/2015
Publisher: 
University of Oslo, Department of Economics, Oslo
Abstract: 
The ratio definition of efficiency has the form of a productivity measure. But the weights are endogenous variables and they do not function as weights in a productivity index proper. It is shown that extended Farrell measures of efficiency can all be given an interpretation as productivity measures as observed productivity relative to productivity at the various projection points on the frontier.The Malmquist productivity index is the efficiency score for a unit in a period relative to the efficiency score in a previous period, thus based on a maximal common expansion factor for outputs or common contraction factor for inputs not involving any individual weighting of outputs or inputs, as is the case if a Törnqvist or ideal Fisher index are used. The multiplicative decomposition of the Malmquist productivity index into an efficiency part and a frontier shift part should not be taken to imply causality.
Subjects: 
Farrell efficiency measures
Technically optimal scale
Malmquist productivity index
Decomposition of the Malmquist productivity index
JEL: 
C61
D24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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