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Firm and Industry Level Profit Efficiency Analysis Under Incomplete Price Data: A Nonparametric Approach Based on Absolute and Uniform Shadow PricesTimo KuosmanenAalto University School of Business Mika KortelainenUniversity of Joensuu Timo SipiläinenMTT Agrifood Research Institute - Economic Research Laurens CherchyeKU Leuven; Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) February 2006 Abstract: We discuss the nonparametric approach to profit efficiency analysis at the firm and industry levels in the absence of complete price information, and propose two new insights. First, choosing one commodity (whose price is known) as a numeraire good enables us to measure profit inefficiency in absolute monetary terms. Second, imposing a 'Law of One Price' (LoOP) constraint that all firms should be evaluated in terms of the same input-output prices allows us to aggregate firm-level profit inefficiencies to the overall industry inefficiency. Moreover, the LoOP restrictions increase the discriminatory power of the method by better capturing firm-level allocative inefficiencies. Besides the measurement of profit losses, the presented approach enables one to recover absolute price information from quantity data. We conduct a series of Monte Carlo simulations to study the performance of the proposed approach in controlled production environments.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 30 Keywords: Profit Efficiency, Industry Inefficiency, Data Envelopment Analysis, Absolute Prices, Law of One Price, Weight Restrictions, Simulation JEL Classification: C14, C61, D21, D24, D61 working papers seriesDate posted: May 2, 2007Suggested CitationContact Information
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