1. Quality Management: Technical efficiency, benchmarking, and contracts Open Access Author: Kim, Taeho Title: Quality Management: Technical efficiency, benchmarking, and contracts Graduate Program: Agricultural Economics Keywords: contractsbenchmarkingcategorical factorsTechnical efficiency File: Download TKimThesis11.pdf Committee Members: Robert D Weaver, Committee Chair/Co-ChairKalyan Chatterjee, Committee MemberDavid Christy, Committee MemberJeffrey Stokes, Committee Member
2. Bounded Learning Efficiency and Sources of Firm Level Productivity Growth Open Access Author: Shee, Apurba Title: Bounded Learning Efficiency and Sources of Firm Level Productivity Growth Graduate Program: Agricultural Economics Keywords: Colombian food industryBounded learning-by-doingLogistic differential equationLearning efficiencyTechnical efficiencyStochastic production frontierEndogeneity of input choiceFirm-level productivity growthDecomposition of productivity change File: Download Dissertation_Apurba.pdf Committee Members: Spiro E Stefanou, Dissertation Advisor/Co-AdvisorKaren Ann Fisher Vanden, Committee MemberAlessandro Bonanno, Committee MemberMark John Roberts, Special Member