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Quality Production and Quality Indicators in Intermediate Products

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  • Angelo Zago

    (Dipartimento di Scienze economiche (Università di Verona))

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The paper proposes a methodology to measure the characteristics of intermediate products when quality is multidimensional. It uses a general representation of the multioutput technology via directional distance functions and constructs quality indicators based on differences. The quality indicators may be used to evaluate firms’ output taking into account the whole set of quality attributes. It explores the relationships among the different quality attributes and the yields by a systematic investigation of the disposability properties of the technology. In addition, it shows how aggregate quality may vary with the production level.

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  • Angelo Zago, 2004. "Quality Production and Quality Indicators in Intermediate Products," Working Papers 16/2004, University of Verona, Department of Economics.
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    Keywords

    Quality indicators; multidimensional quality; performance measures; DEA.;
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    JEL classification:

    • C43 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Index Numbers and Aggregation
    • C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity

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