A statistical foundation for the measurement of managerial ability

Banker, Rajiv and Park, Han-Up and Sahoo, Biresh (2022): A statistical foundation for the measurement of managerial ability.

Abstract

Demerjian, Lev, and McVay (2012) (DLM) provide a conceptual framework for the measurement of managerial ability using data envelopment analysis (DEA). We show that the DLM method provides a consistent estimator of managerial ability. The DLM approach to measuring managerial ability begins with the first stage estimation of firm efficiency in transforming inputs into outputs. The second stage removes the impact of contextual variables on the firm efficiency so that the residuals measure the impact of unobserved managerial ability. We leverage the properties of the DEA estimator (Banker and Natarajan 2008) to show that the DLM approach provides a statistically consistent estimator of the managerial ability’s impact on firm efficiency.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: DEA, Efficiency, Managerial Ability, Simulation
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C6 - Mathematical Methods ; Programming Models ; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling > C63 - Computational Techniques ; Simulation Modeling; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C6 - Mathematical Methods ; Programming Models ; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling > C67 - Input-Output Models; D - Microeconomics > D2 - Production and Organizations > D24 - Production ; Cost ; Capital ; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity ; Capacity

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