Performance Analysis: Economic Foundations and Trends

Valentin Zelenyuk

Foundations and Trends(R) in Econometrics, 2021, vol. 11, issue 3, 153-229

Abstract: The goal of this monograph is to very concisely outline the economic theory foundations and trends of the field of Effciency and Productivity Analysis, also sometimes referred to as Performance Analysis. I start with the profit maximization paradigm of mainstream economics, use it to derive a general profit effciency measure and then present its special cases: revenue maximization and revenue effciency, cost minimization and cost effciency. I then consider various types of technical and allocative effciencies (directional and Shephard’s distance functions and related Debreu–Farrell measures as well as non-directional measures of technical effciency), showing how they fit into or decompose the profit maximization paradigm. I then cast the effciency and productivity concepts in a dynamic perspective that is frequently used to analyze the productivity changes of economic systems (firms, hospitals, banks, countries, etc.) over time. I conclude this monograph with an overview of major results on aggregation in productivity and effciency analysis, where the aggregate productivity and effciency measures are theoretically connected to their individual analogues.

Date: 2021
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