Sickles, Robin C.2017-08-022017-08-022016-052016-04-14May 2016Gong, Binlei. "Efficiency and Productivity Analysis of Multidivisional Firms." (2016) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/96263">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/96263</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/96263Multidivisional firms are those who have footprints in multiple segments and hence using multiple technologies to convert inputs to outputs, which makes it difficult to estimate the resource allocations, aggregated production functions, and technical efficiencies of this type of companies. This dissertation aims to explore and reveal such unobserved information by several parametric and semiparametric stochastic frontier analyses and some other structural models. In the empirical study, this dissertation analyzes the productivity and efficiency for firms in the global oilfield market.application/pdfengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.Stochastic Frontier AnalysisReduced-Form and Structural ModelsGlobal Oilfield MarketMultidivisional FirmsThesis2017-08-02