Productivity growth is a keyword for sustainable economic growth in a knowledge-based society. There has been significant methodological development in the literature on productivity and efficiency analysis, e.g. SFA (Stochastic Frontier Analysis) and DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis). All these methodological developments should be matched with applications in order to provide practical implications for private and public decision-makers. This volume provides a collection of up-to-date and new applications of productivity and efficiency analysis. In particular, the case studies cover various economic issues in the Asia-Pacific region. The authors analyze the performance of manufacturing firms, banks, venture capital, broadcasting firms, as well as the issues of efficiency in the education sector, regional development, and defense industry. These case studies will shed light on the potential contribution of productivity and efficiency analysis to the enhancement of economic performance.

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Industrial Sector and Firm Level Efficiency and Productivity Analysis.- Productivity, Efficiency, and Economic Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region.- Factor Hoarding and Productivity: Experience from Indian Manufacturing.- Concentration, Profitability and (In)Efficiency in Large Scale Firms.- Financial Ratio Analysis: An Application to US Energy Industry.- On Measuring Productivity Growth in Indian Industry: Analysis of Organized and Unorganized Sector in Selected Major States.- Performance in Financial Sector.- Technical Efficiency of Banks in Southeast Asia.- The Effect of Asset Composition Strategy on Venture Capital Firm Efficiency: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis.- Post Crisis Non-Bank Financial Institutions Productivity Change: Efficiency Increase or Technological Progress?.- The Impact of the Wallis Inquiry on Australian Banking Efficiency Performance.- Efficiency in Public Sector and the Role of Public Policy.- Performance Ranking and Management Efficiency in Colleges of Business: A Study at the Department Level in Taiwanese Universities.- Efficiency of the Korean Defense Industry: A Stochastic Frontier Approach.- Performance Measurement of Agricultural Cooperatives in Thailand: An Accounting-Based Data Envelopment Analysis.- An Empirical Study on the Performance of public Financing for Small Business in Korea.- The Impact of Agricultural Loans on the Technical Efficiency of Rice Farmers in the Upper North of Thailand.- Efficiency of ICT Firms.- Efficiency Analysis of the Digital Content Industry in Korea: An Application of Order-m Frontier Model.- Analysis on the Technical Efficiency and Productivity Growth of the Korean Cable SOs: A Stochastic Frontier Approach.