Petroleum refining in India : reform and technical efficiency in public sector enterprises (Record no. 25362)
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| fixed length control field | 02187nam a2200181Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 818424679X |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 681.7665 |
| Item number | DAT |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Datta, Madhusudan |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Petroleum refining in India : reform and technical efficiency in public sector enterprises |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Ahmedabad,Calcutta etc |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Allied Pub. Pvt. Ltd. |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2011 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xii,104p. |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | Sardar Patel Institute of economic & social research monograph |
| Volume/sequential designation | No.25 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | CONTENTS Foreword v Preface ii 1. Refining Petroleum Crude: ATechnical Note 1 1.1: Properties of Hydrocarbons 2 1.2: Composition and Structure of the Components of 4 Petroleum 1.3: Refining the Crude 7 2. Evolution of Petroleum Refining in India 9 2.1: Nascent Petroleum Sector of India 9 2.2: Maturing Industry and Inadequacy of the Public Sector 12 2.3: A Broader Perspective 16 3. Industry Structure and Pricing of Products 19 3.1: The Major Players: Upstream Sector 19 3.2: The Major Players: Downstream Sector 20 3.3: Price Determination 22 4. Technical Efficiency and its Measurement 26 4.1: The Concept of Efficiency in Production 26 4.2: Necessary Abstraction of the Reality 29 4.3: Total Factor Productivity and Technical Efficiency 36 4.4: Data Generation 38 4.5: Some Final Comments 40 5. Estimation of Technical Efficiency Using Stochastic Frontier 42 5.1: Production Frontier Models 44 5.2: Stochastic Production Frontiers 47 5.3: Maximum Likelihood Estimation: The Normal-Truncated Normal Model 49 5.4: Some Empirical Applications for the Indian Economy 53 6. Measurement of Variables 57 6.1: Capital 57 6.2: Implications of Two Approaches: PIM and OHSM 60 6.3: EPD under the PIM 63 6.4: Measurement of Service Capital 65 6.5: Segregation of Refining and Marketing Operations 70 7. Technical Efficiency in Oil Refining Public Sector Companies 77 7.1: Earlier Studies on Performance of Oil Refining PSCs 79 7.2: Production and Inputs82 7.3: Factor Employment in Refining Operations and Partial Productivities 86 7.4: Technical Efficiency in Oil Refining PSCs 89 7.5: Conclusion 97 References 101 |
| 890 ## - COUNTRY | |
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| 891 ## - TOPIC | |
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| -- | School of Planning, CEPT Uni. |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type | Public note |
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| Faculty of Planning | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 04/12/2012 | Prof. Niti Mehta | 395.00 | 681.7665 DAT | 009299 | 30/08/2013 | 30/08/2013 | Book | Status:Catalogued;Bill No:GRATIS |