Summer schools
On-Site
Full Time
Regular fees: 600 - 950 EUR
International Fees : 600 - 950 EUR
The course fee is €600 for those participating in one of the two weeks and €950 for those registering for both weeks. The course fee includes additional training material, coffee / tea, lunches and an informal dinner.
Alfons Oude Lansink
The course introduces students into the theory and practice of efficiency and productivity analysis. Week 1 introduces students into parametric and semi-parametric approaches and week 2 focuses on non-parametric approaches. Participants may enrol for either week 1 or 2, or both weeks.
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EFFICIENCY & PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT:
STATIC & DYNAMIC ANALYSIS
Summer School for PhDs and Postdocs, 2 weeks
Week 1: June 22 - 29
Parametric Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (Subal Kumbhakar and Chris Parmeter)
The parametric course uses Stochastic Frontier Analysis and semi-parametric techniques to measure efficiency and productivity by letting the data span the frontier to establish best practice. This approach coupled with the microeconomic theory of the firm provides firm-specific measurements of efficiency and best practice role models for improving performance. The course will also present new developments in industrial organisation related efficiency and productivity measurement.
Week 2: June 29 – July 2026
DEA, Dynamic and Environmental Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (Alfons Oude Lansink and Frederic Ang)
The second week introduces the students into Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the dynamic perspective to measuring efficiency and productivity. DEA is a nonparametric technique for measuring efficiency and productivity. The technique does not require distributional assumptions on the efficiency term and is a flexible approach that can be applied to many situations. Dynamic efficiency and productivity analysis explicitly accounts for the role of adjustment costs in investments in the measurement of efficiency and productivity. Finally, the course introduces the students into several environmental efficiency analysis techniques.
Hollandseweg 1
Wageningen , Niederlande
