Performance Analysis: Theory and Practice, by Associate Professor Zelenyuk (Australia) - 3 Day Intensive

3-Day Intensive Course: Wednesday 20 July- Friday 22 July, 2016 at The University of Queensland, St Lucia

DELIVERED BY: Associate Professor Valentin Zelenyuk

This is a three day (20-22 July, 2016) intensive course on performance (efficiency and productivity) analysis. 

Day one will be dedicated to an introduction to the subject and is especially useful to those who have no or little background in the area. During this first day, participants are expected to develop a general understanding of the main concepts used in the research area of productivity and efficiency analysis (DEA and SFA) and be introduced to relevant software for some practical implementations. Day one will also be a stepping-stone to the following two days of the course, where these concepts will be covered in more detail to give students a better understanding for better use in both empirical and theoretical research.

Students familiar with the area may skip the day one and only do day two and/or day three. 

Day two will cover:

• Primal and Dual Characterizations - main results and relationships to efficiency analysis 
• Dual Characterizations - main results and relationship to efficiency analysis
• DEA and FDH - static and dynamic cases

Day three will cover:

• Measurement of Scale - theory and practice
• Aggregation in efficiency and productivity analysis
• Selected topics - slack-based measures, network DEA, alpha-frontiers

An optional welcome reception for course attendees will be held on Wednesday 20 July. A farewell dinner to conclude the course will also be held on Friday 22 July.

PLEASE NOTE: UQ Students (Honours, Masters and R&RHD) MUST register through mySI-net in ECON6370 or ECON7370 to receive credit for the courses. R&RHD students should contact Alys Hohnen rhd.economics@uq.edu.au 

Who should attend?

The course is aimed at graduate students, researchers, economists, statisticians and consultants from private and public sector organizations, regulatory authorities, regulated firms, infrastructure industries (e.g., electricity, gas, railways), service industries (e.g., education, health), and industries with branch structures (e.g., banks, credit unions, franchises, retail chains). Participants are expected to have an understanding of microeconomics and econometrics similar to that of an economics undergraduate (bachelor) degree of a recognized Australian, European or US university.