MULTIPLE COMPARISONS WITH THE BEST: BAYESIAN PRECISION MEASURES OF EFFICIENCY RANKINGS



To emphasize this point, equation (4.2) can be written as

Di (y,x,tb) = sup{λ : (x∕λ,yb) S(x,y,tb)}.                   (4.5)

λ

The appropriate monotonicity condition for the bad in the context of the input dis-
tance function can be derived as follows. Assuming a single bad, we compute the partial
total differential of equation (4.5) evaluated on the frontier at a fixed time [implying
Di(y, x, t|b) = 1 and dt = 0] to obtain

7 ∩ - dDi 1 . dDi 1 . dDi ,, ∩
dDi = > y ɑ—dym + > j d—dxn + -^~db = 0.
∂              y
m ∂ xn∂ b

(4.6)


Using the properties that the input distance function is monotonically nondecreasing
in inputs (
d∂χDi ≥ 0) and monotonically nonincreasing in outputs (∂D-i 0), and setting
dym = 0, m, in order to keep the firm on the input distance frontier, we obtain

∂Di
∂b


∂Di dxn

∂xn db


(4.7)


As in Pittman (1983), with constant desirable output and technology, bads can only be
reduced through increased input usage. This implies that
ddn 0, which combined with
the nonnegativity property for inputs,
ddDDi ≥ 0, yields

∂Di

(4.8)


ɪ 0.
∂b

As a flexible approximation to the true distance function in (4.5) , we adopt the
translog functional form. Thus, the empirical model for firm
f = 1, . . . , F in period

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