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This volume brings together leading scholars to make connections between efficiency and a number of diverse areas of current interest to economists. Included are new results concerning aggregation of technical efficiency, sources of productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing, intellectual property rights, and the determinants of successful mergers.

Aggregation, Efficiency, and Measurement

The Pareto-Optima of Finite-Horizon OLG Models.- Derivative Properties of Directional Technology Distance Functions.- Synergistic Mergers in an Agency Context: An Illustration of the Interaction of the Observability Problem and Synergistic Merger.- The Le Chatelier Principle in Data Envelopment Analysis.- Finding Common Ground: Efficiency Indices.- Sources of Manufacturing Productivity Growth: U.S. States 1990-1999.- Nonparametric Estimation of Higher-Order Moments of Technical Efficiency.- Measuring Inefficiency with Endogenous Innovation.- Don't Aggregate Efficiency But Disaggregate Inefficiency.