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Exact nonradial input, output, and productivity measurement

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The use of measures originally suggested by Bennet, Bowley, and Hicks in the context of cost of living, welfare, and consumer surplus measurement to measure inputs, outputs, and productivity is examined. Suitably normalized versions of the Bennet-Bowley measures are shown to be exact and superlative measures of input, output, and productivity indicators.

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  1. Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA, , , , , , , US

    Robert G. Chambers

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Received: April 2, 2001; revised version: August 8, 2001

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Chambers, R. Exact nonradial input, output, and productivity measurement. Econ Theory 20, 751–765 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001990100231

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