Sources of productivity change: A Malmquist total factor productivity approach

Transport Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 103-116

  Boame, K A ^a   Obeng, K ^b  

^a INDUSTRY CANADA   (Canada)

^b NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUS TRANSPORT; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY; URBAN TRANSPORT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 12344299538     PISSN: 01441647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0144164042000244572     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Banker, R. D., Charnes, A. and Cooper, W. W. (1984) Some models for estimating technical and scale inefficiencies in data envelopment analysis, Management Science, 30(9), pp. 1078-1092.
2. Barger, H. (1951) The Transportation Industries 1889 to 1946: A Study of Output, Employment and Productivity (New York, NY: National Bureau of Economic Research).
3. Berg, S. A., Førsund, F. R. and Jansen, E. S. (1992) Malmquist indices of productivity growth during the deregulation of Norwegian banking, 1980-1989, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 94, pp. 211-228.
4. Boame, A. K. (2001) The sources of efficiency change in the Canadian urban transit systems: a data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach. Unpublished PhD dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Manitoba.
5. Cantos, P., Pastor, J. M. and Serrano, L. (1999) Productivity, efficiency and technical change in the European railways: a non-parametric approach, Transportation, 26, pp. 337-357.
6. Caves, D. W., Christensen, L. R. and Diewert, W. E. (1982) The economic theory of index numbers and the measurement of input, output and productivity, Econometrica, 50(6), pp. 1393-1414.
7. Charnes, A., Cooper, W. W. and Rhodes, E. (1978) Measuring the efficiency of decision making units, European Journal of Operational Research, 2, pp. 429-444.
8. Denny, M., Fuss, M. and Waverman, L. (1981) The measurement and interpretation of total factor productivity in regulated industries, with an application to Canadian telecommunications, in: T. G. Cowing and R. E. Stevenson (Eds) Productivity Measurement in Regulated Industries, pp. 179-218 (New York, NY: Academic Press).
9. Divisia, F. (1926) L'indice monetaire et la theorie de la monnaie (Paris: Societe Anonyme de Recueil Sirey).
10. Färe, R. and Primont, D. (1995) Multi-output Production and Duality: Theory and Applications (Boston, MA: Kluwer).
11. Färe, R., Grosskopf, S., Lindgren, B. and Roos, P. (1994a) Productivity developments in Swedish hospitals: a Malmquist output index approach, in: A. Charnes, W. W. Cooper, A. Y. Levin and L. M. Seiford (Eds) Data Envelopment Analysis: Theory, Methodology, and Application pp. 253-272 (Boston, MA: Kluwer).
12. Färe, R., Grosskopf, S. and Nelson, J. (1990) On price efficiency, International Economic Review, 31(3), pp. 709-720.
13. Färe, R., Grosskopf, S., Norris, M. and Zhang, Z. (1994b) Productivity growth, technical progress and efficiency change in industrialized countries, American Economic Review, 84(1), pp. 66-83.
14. Farrell, M. J. (1957) The measurement of productive efficiency, Journal of Royal Statistical Society, 120, pp. 253-281.
15. Gordon, R. J. (1992) Productivity in the transportation sector, in: Z. Griliches (Ed.) Output Measurement in the Service Sectors, pp. 371-422 (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press).
16. Grifell-Tatjé, E. and Lovell, C. A. K. (1995) A note on the Malmquist productivity index, Economics Letters, 47, pp. 169-175.
17. Hjalmarsson, L. and Veiderpass, L. (1992) Productivity in Swedish retail distribution, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 94, pp. 193-205.
18. Hooper, P. G. (1987) Productivity change in transport: a survey, Transport Reviews, 7, pp. 341-368.
19. Malmquist, S. (1953) Index numbers and indifference curves, Trabajos de Estatistica, 4(1), pp. 209-242.
20. Nishimizu, M. and Page, J. M. (1982) Total factor productivity growth, technological progress and technical efficiency change: dimensions of productivity change in Yugoslavia, 1965-1978, Economic Journal, 92, pp. 920-936.
21. Nolan, J. F. (1996) Determinants of productive efficiency in urban transit, Logistic and Transportation Review, 32(3), pp. 319-342.
22. O'Sullivan, A. (2000) Urban Economics, 4th edn (Boston, MA: Irwin McGraw-Hill).
23. Oum, T. H. and Yu, C. (1994) Economic efficiency of railways and implications for public policy: a comparative study of the OECD countries' railways, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 28(2), pp. 121-138.
24. Obeng, K. (1994) The economic cost of subsidy-induced technical inefficiency, International Journal of Transport Economics, 21(1), pp. 3-20.
25. Obeng, K. (2000) Expense preference behavior in public transit systems, Transportation Research Part E, 36, pp. 249-265.
26. Obeng, K., Assar, N. and Benjamin, J. (1992) Total factor productivity in transit systems: 1983-1988, Transportation Research A, 26A(6), pp. 447-455.
27. Obeng, K., Azam, A. H. M. and Sakano, R. (1997) Modeling the Economic Inefficiency Caused by Public Transit Subsidies (Westport, CT: Praeger).
28. Obeng, K. and Sakano, R. (2000) The effect of operating and capital subsidies on total factor productivity: a decomposition approach, Southern Economic Journal, 67(2), pp. 381-397.
29. Obeng, K. and Sakano, R. (2002) Total factor productivity decomposition, input price inefficiencies and public transit systems, Transportation Research Part E, 38, pp. 19-36.
30. Pierce, J. T. and Moser, E. K. (1995) System-specific spare bus ratios, in: Synthesis of Transport Practice II (Washington, DC: TCRP, Transportation Research Board/National Academy Press).
31. Pucher, J., Markstedt, A and Hirschman, I. (1983) Impacts of subsidies on the costs of urban public transport, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 17, pp. 156-176.
32. Sakano, R. and Obeng, K. (1995) Re-examination of inefficiencies in urban transit systems: a stochastic frontier approach, Logistics and Transportation Review, 31(3), pp. 377-392.
33. Simar, L. and Wilson, P. W. (1998) Sensitivity analysis of efficiency scores: how to bootstrap in nonparametric frontier models, Management Science, 44(1), pp. 49-61.
34. Viton, P. A. (1995) Changes in Multi-mode Bus Transit Efficiency, 1988-1992. Working Paper (Columbus, OH: Department of City and Regional Planning, Ohio State University).