The Oxford Handbook of Productivity Analysis

Emili Grifell-Tatjé , C.A. Knox Lovell , Robin Sickles , Laurens Cherchye (1) , Bram de Rock (2) , Antonio Estache (3) , Marijn Verschelde (4)

1 Center for Economic Studies
2 ECARES - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics
3 ULB - Université libre de Bruxelles
4 LEM - Lille économie management - UMR 9221

This chapter begins by providing a historical account of the liberalization in regulated sectors. This sets the stage for a discussion on how productivity and efficiency measures have become both a goal and a tool in some of these sectors. The chapter also presents an extensive overview of case studies both across industries and countries. Subsequently, it provides a review on how the literature has tried to deal with the many empirical challenges related to measuring productivity and efficiency. Finally, it makes the case for a switch to the structural ETC approach (first economics, then technology, and finally empirical challenges) to performance measurement in policy areas as a solution to many of the issues surveyed in the chapter.

Mots clés: efficiency; productivity; liberalization; structural ETC; economics; technology

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Gestion et management

Emili Grifell-Tatjé, C.A. Knox Lovell, Robin Sickles, Laurens Cherchye, Bram de Rock, et al.. The Oxford Handbook of Productivity Analysis. Oxford University Press, 2018, ⟨10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190226718.013.15⟩. ⟨hal-02573812⟩