Malmquist productivity indices and plant capacity utilisation: new proposals and empirical application

Kristiaan Kerstens, Jafar Sadeghi (), Ignace Van de Woestyne () and Linjia Zhang ()
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Jafar Sadeghi: IESEG School of Management
Ignace Van de Woestyne: Brussels Campus
Linjia Zhang: Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Annals of Operations Research, 2022, vol. 315, issue 1, No 10, 250 pages

Abstract: Abstract The purpose of this contribution is to compute the popular Malmquist productivity index while adding a component representing plant capacity utilisation. In particular, this is—to the best of our knowledge—the first empirical application estimating both input- and output-oriented Malmquist productivity indices in conjunction with the corresponding input- and output-oriented plant capacity utilisation measures. Our empirical application focuses on a provincial data set of tourism activities in China over the period 2008–2016. The results contain the output- and input-oriented Malmquist productivity indices, some Spearman rank correlations between both, a t-test whether these indices differ from unity, and some bootstrapping analysis.

Keywords: Data envelopment analysis; Free disposal hull; Malmquist productivity index; Decomposition; Plant capacity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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