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Christopher O'Donnell

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  1. Christopher J. O'Donnell & Alicia N. Rambaldi & Howard E. Doran, 2001. "Estimating economic relationships subject to firm- and time-varying equality and inequality constraints," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 16(6), pages 709-726.

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    1. Estimating economic relationships subject to firm- and time-varying equality and inequality constraints (Journal of Applied Econometrics 2001) in ReplicationWiki ()

Working papers

  1. Kristiaan Kerstens & Christopher O’donnell & Ignace van de Woestyne, 2019. "Metatechnology frontier and convexity: A restatement," Post-Print hal-02108502, HAL.

    Cited by:

    1. Fang, Lei, 2022. "Measuring and decomposing group performance under centralized management," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 297(3), pages 1006-1013.
    2. Laura Carosi & Ana Camanho & Giovanna D’Inverno & Kristof Witte & Rossana Riccardi, 2020. "Preface to the special issue on performance measurement and efficiency analysis—theory and practice," Decisions in Economics and Finance, Springer;Associazione per la Matematica, vol. 43(2), pages 409-412, December.
    3. Azar, Paola & Sicilia, Gabriela, 2023. "Assessing potential improvement in education: Unravelling pupils' and schools’ inefficiencies using a multi-level metafrontier approach," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 118(C).
    4. See, Kok Fong & Md Hamzah, Nurhafiza & Yu, Ming-Miin, 2021. "Metafrontier efficiency analysis for hospital pharmacy services using dynamic network DEA framework," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
    5. Wang, Miao & Feng, Chao, 2021. "The consequences of industrial restructuring, regional balanced development, and market-oriented reform for China's carbon dioxide emissions: A multi-tier meta-frontier DEA-based decomposition analysi," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 164(C).
    6. Shen, Zhiyang & Bai, Kaixuan & Hong, Tianyang & Balezentis, Tomas, 2021. "Evaluation of carbon shadow price within a non-parametric meta-frontier framework: The case of OECD, ASEAN and BRICS," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 299(C).
    7. Yu, Ming-Miin & See, Kok Fong & Hsiao, Bo, 2022. "Integrating group frontier and metafrontier directional distance functions to evaluate the efficiency of production units," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 301(1), pages 254-276.
    8. Nguyen, Hoa-Thi-Minh & Do, Huong & Kompas, Tom, 2021. "Economic efficiency versus social equity: The productivity challenge for rice production in a ‘greying’ rural Vietnam," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 148(C).
    9. Helu Xiao & Na Wang & Shanping Wang, 2023. "Dynamic sustainability assessment of poverty alleviation in China: evidence from both novel non-convex global two-stage DEA and Malmquist productivity index," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 23(2), pages 1-40, June.
    10. Qianying Jin & Kristiaan Kerstens & Ignace van de Woestyne, 2020. "Metafrontier productivity indices: Questioning the common convexification strategy," Post-Print hal-02496997, HAL.
    11. Kristiaan Kerstens & Paolo Mazza & Tiantian Ren & Ignace Van de Woestyne, 2021. "Multi-Time and Multi-Moment Nonparametric Frontier-Based Fund Rating: Proposal and Buy-and-Hold Backtesting Strategy," Working Papers 2021-EQM-03, IESEG School of Management.
    12. Jin, Qianying & Basso, Antonella & Funari, Stefania & Kerstens, Kristiaan & Van de Woestyne, Ignace, 2024. "Evaluating different groups of mutual funds using a metafrontier approach: Ethical vs. non-ethical funds," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 312(3), pages 1134-1145.
    13. Skevas, Theodoros & Martinez-Palomares, Jorge C., 2023. "Technology heterogeneity and sustainability efficiency: Empirical evidence from Peruvian coffee production," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 310(3), pages 1192-1200.
    14. Kristiaan KERSTENS & Jafar SADEGHI & Ignace VAN DE WOESTYNE & John WALDEN, 2020. "Short-Run Johansen Frontier-Based Industry Models: Methodological Refinements and Empirical Illustration on Fisheries," Working Papers 2020-EQM-01, IESEG School of Management.
    15. Haiyan Deng & Ge Bai & Kristiaan Kerstens & Zhiyang Shen, 2023. "Comparing green productivity under convex and nonconvex technologies: Which is a robust approach consistent with energy structure?," Post-Print hal-04273632, HAL.
    16. Barra, Cristian & Lagravinese, Raffaele & Zotti, Roberto, 2020. "Exploring Hospital Efficiency within and between Italian Regions: New Empirical Evidence," Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis. Working Papers 202024, University of Turin.
    17. Mehdiloo, Mahmood & Podinovski, Victor V., 2021. "Strong, weak and Farrell efficient frontiers of technologies satisfying different production assumptions," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 294(1), pages 295-311.
    18. Chin‐wei Huang & Hsiao‐Yin Chen, 2023. "Using nonradial metafrontier data envelopment analysis to evaluate the metatechnology and metafactor ratios for the Taiwanese hotel industry," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 44(4), pages 1904-1919, June.
    19. Núñez, F. & Arcos-Vargas, A. & Villa, G., 2020. "Efficiency benchmarking and remuneration of Spanish electricity distribution companies," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 67(C).
    20. Ming-Miin Yu & Li-Hsueh Chen, 2020. "A meta-frontier network data envelopment analysis approach for the measurement of technological bias with network production structure," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 287(1), pages 495-514, April.
    21. Jayanath Ananda & Dong-hyun Oh, 2023. "Assessing environmentally sensitive productivity growth: incorporating externalities and heterogeneity into water sector evaluations," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 59(1), pages 45-60, February.
    22. An, Qingxian & Tao, Xiangyang & Chen, Xiaohong, 2023. "Nested frontier-based best practice regulation under asymmetric information in a principal–agent framework," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 306(1), pages 269-285.
    23. D’Inverno, Giovanna & Smet, Mike & De Witte, Kristof, 2021. "Impact evaluation in a multi-input multi-output setting: Evidence on the effect of additional resources for schools," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 290(3), pages 1111-1124.
    24. Tang, Liwei & He, Gang, 2021. "How to improve total factor energy efficiency? An empirical analysis of the Yangtze River economic belt of China," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 235(C).
    25. Nguyen, Minh-Anh Thi & Yu, Ming-Miin & Lirn, Taih-Cherng, 2022. "Revenue efficiency across airline business models: A bootstrap non-convex meta-frontier approach," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 117(C), pages 108-117.
    26. Tsionas, Mike G., 2023. "Clustering and meta-envelopment in data envelopment analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 304(2), pages 763-778.
    27. Justas Streimikis & Zhuang Miao & Tomas Balezentis, 2021. "Creation of climate‐smart and energy‐efficient agriculture in the European Union: Pathways based on the frontier analysis," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 30(1), pages 576-589, January.
    28. Esteve, Miriam & Aparicio, Juan & Rodriguez-Sala, Jesus J. & Zhu, Joe, 2023. "Random Forests and the measurement of super-efficiency in the context of Free Disposal Hull," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 304(2), pages 729-744.
    29. Mohsen Afsharian, 2020. "A metafrontier-based yardstick competition mechanism for incentivising units in centrally managed multi-group organisations," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 288(2), pages 681-700, May.
    30. Alecos Papadopoulos, 2021. "Measuring the effect of management on production: a two-tier stochastic frontier approach," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 3011-3041, June.
    31. Xiao, Helu & Zhou, Zhongbao & Ren, Teng & Liu, Wenbin, 2022. "Estimation of portfolio efficiency in nonconvex settings: A free disposal hull estimator with non-increasing returns to scale," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 111(C).
    32. Elizabeth Ahikiriza & Jef Meensel & Xavier Gellynck & Ludwig Lauwers, 2021. "Heterogeneity in frontier analysis: does it matter for benchmarking farms?," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 56(2), pages 69-84, December.
    33. Yu, Ming-Miin & Lin, Chung-I & Chen, Kuan-Chen & Chen, Li-Hsueh, 2021. "Measuring Taiwanese bank performance: A two-system dynamic network data envelopment analysis approach," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 98(C).
    34. Ching-Ren Chiu & Ming-Chung Chang & Jin-Li Hu, 2022. "Energy intensity improvement and energy productivity changes: an analysis of BRICS and G7 countries," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 57(3), pages 297-311, June.
    35. Tsionas, Mike G., 2020. "On a model of environmental performance and technology gaps," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 285(3), pages 1141-1152.
    36. Afsharian, Mohsen & Ahn, Heinz & Harms, Sören Guntram, 2021. "A review of DEA approaches applying a common set of weights: The perspective of centralized management," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 294(1), pages 3-15.
    37. Valero-Carreras, Daniel & Aparicio, Juan & Guerrero, Nadia M., 2021. "Support vector frontiers: A new approach for estimating production functions through support vector machines," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 104(C).

  2. Holden , Stein & O’Donnell, Christopher J., 2015. "Maize Productivity and Input Subsidies in Malawi: A State-Contingent Stochastic Production Frontier Approach," Working Paper Series 02-2015, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, School of Economics and Business.

    Cited by:

    1. Holden, S.T. & Quiggin, J., 2018. "Probability Weighting and Fertilizer Use in a State-Contingent Framework," 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia 277355, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    2. Holden , Stein T. & Quiggin, John, 2017. "Probability Weighting and Input Use Intensity in a State-Contingent Framework," CLTS Working Papers 8/17, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Centre for Land Tenure Studies, revised 21 Oct 2019.
    3. Holden, Stein T., 2015. "Risk Preferences, Shocks and Technology Adoption: Farmers’ Responses to Drought Risk," CLTS Working Papers 3/15, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Centre for Land Tenure Studies, revised 11 Oct 2019.
    4. Holden , Stein T. & Quiggin, John, 2015. "Climate risk and state-contingent technology adoption: The role of risk preferences and probability weighting," Working Paper Series 15-2015, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, School of Economics and Business.

  3. Christopher O`Donnell, 2014. "An Economic Approach to Identifying the Drivers of Productivity Change in the Market Sectors of the Australian Economy," CEPA Working Papers Series WP022014, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

    Cited by:

    1. Julien, Jacques C. & Bravo-Ureta, Boris E. & Rada, Nicholas E., 2019. "Assessing farm performance by size in Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 84(C), pages 153-164.
    2. Ipatova, Irina, 2015. "The dynamics of total factor productivity and its components: Russian plastic production," Applied Econometrics, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), vol. 38(2), pages 21-40.

  4. C. J. O'Donnell, 2012. "Alternative Indexes for Multiple Comparisons of Quantities and Prices," CEPA Working Papers Series WP052012, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

    Cited by:

    1. J. Laurenceson & C.J. O’Donnell, 2011. "New Estimates and a Decomposition of Provincial Productivity Change in China," CEPA Working Papers Series WP042011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

  5. C.J. O'Donnell & S. Fallah-Fini & K, Triantis, 2011. "Comparing Firm Performance Using Transitive Productivity Index Numbers in a Meta-frontier Framework," CEPA Working Papers Series WP082011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

    Cited by:

    1. Latruffe, L. & Dakpo, K.H. & Desjeux, Y. & Jeanneaux, P., 2018. "Productivity, efficiency and technological change in French agriculture during 2002-2014: A F re-Primont index decomposition," 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia 277369, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    2. Mitropoulos, Panagiotis & Talias, Μichael A. & Mitropoulos, Ioannis, 2015. "Combining stochastic DEA with Bayesian analysis to obtain statistical properties of the efficiency scores: An application to Greek public hospitals," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 243(1), pages 302-311.
    3. Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, 2018. "Agricultural growth, efficiency and family agriculture in Paraguay," IFPRI discussion papers 1747, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    4. K Hervé Dakpo & Yann Desjeux & Philippe Jeanneaux & Laure Latruffe, 2017. "Productivity, technical efficiency and technological change in French agriculture during 2002-2014: A Färe-Primont index decomposition," Working Papers SMART 17-07, INRAE UMR SMART.

  6. C.J. O’Donnell, 2011. "Econometric Estimation of Distance Functions and Associated Measures of Productivity and Efficiency Change," CEPA Working Papers Series WP012011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

    Cited by:

    1. C.J. O’Donnell & K. Nguyen, 2011. "An Econometric Approach To Estimating Support Prices And Measures Of Productivity Change In Public Hospitals," CEPA Working Papers Series WP032011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    2. R. Todd Jewell, 2017. "Technical efficiency with multi-output, heterogeneous production: a latent class, distance function model of english football," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 48(1), pages 37-50, August.
    3. Walker, Nathan L. & Styles, David & Williams, A. Prysor, 2023. "Water sector resilience in the United Kingdom and Ireland: The COVID-19 challenge," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    4. Mocholi-Arce, Manuel & Sala-Garrido, Ramon & Molinos-Senante, Maria & Maziotis, Alexandros, 2021. "Water company productivity change: A disaggregated approach accounting for changes in inputs and outputs," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 70(C).
    5. Diewert, W. Erwin & Fox, Kevin J., 2017. "Decomposing productivity indexes into explanatory factors," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 256(1), pages 275-291.
    6. Tran, Trung & Thanh, Hai Trinh & Van Le, Dao & Phuong, Thao Trinh Thi & Lan, Phuong Nguyen, 2022. "Does government financial support decrease the inefficiency of public universities? A decomposition approach," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 47(PA).
    7. Halkos, George & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2012. "Evaluating professional tennis players’ career performance: A Data Envelopment Analysis approach," MPRA Paper 41516, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    8. C.J. O'Donnell, 2011. "The Sources of Productivity Change in the Manufacturing Sectors of the U.S. Economy," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

  7. J. Laurenceson & C.J. O’Donnell, 2011. "New Estimates and a Decomposition of Provincial Productivity Change in China," CEPA Working Papers Series WP042011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

    Cited by:

    1. Hu, Yue & Liu, Chang & Peng, Jiangang, 2021. "Financial inclusion and agricultural total factor productivity growth in China," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 68-82.
    2. Viet Nguyen, Thanh & Simioni, Michel & Le Van, Dao, 2019. "Assessment of TFP change at provincial level in Vietnam: New evidence using Färe–Primont productivity index," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 329-345.
    3. Mohammadian, Isaac & Jahangoshai Rezaee, Mustafa, 2020. "A new decomposition and interpretation of Hicks-Moorsteen productivity index for analysis of Stock Exchange companies: Case study on pharmaceutical industry," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 69(C).
    4. Ioanna Reziti & Leonidas Zangelidis, 2019. "Regional Productivity and Efficiency Growth in Greek Agriculture," SPOUDAI Journal of Economics and Business, SPOUDAI Journal of Economics and Business, University of Piraeus, vol. 69(4), pages 3-20, October-D.
    5. Ding Lu, 2011. "Transition of China’s growth pattern," Frontiers of Economics in China, Springer;Higher Education Press, vol. 6(4), pages 535-555, December.
    6. Zhaodan Wu & Yi Zhang & Yu Hua & Quanliang Ye & Lixiao Xu & Shiqi Wang, 2020. "An Improved System Dynamics Model to Evaluate Regional Water Scarcity from a Virtual Water Perspective: A Case Study of Henan Province, China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(18), pages 1-35, September.
    7. Reziti, Ioanna, 2019. "Total factor productivity change of agriculture in five Southern European countries," Agricultural Economics Review, Greek Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 0(Issue 2).
    8. James Laurenceson, 2016. "Discussion of China's Institutional Impediments to Productivity Growth," RBA Annual Conference Volume (Discontinued), in: Iris Day & John Simon (ed.),Structural Change in China: Implications for Australia and the World, Reserve Bank of Australia.
    9. Gottwald-Belinic, Martina, 2021. "Productivity gap and Factor misallocation in Chinese manufacturing sector – micro perspective," MPRA Paper 110372, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    10. C.J. O'Donnell & S. Fallah-Fini & K, Triantis, 2011. "Comparing Firm Performance Using Transitive Productivity Index Numbers in a Meta-frontier Framework," CEPA Working Papers Series WP082011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    11. Constant, Labintan Adeniyi & Shijun, Ding, 2012. "Benin Agriculture Productivity and profitability Measurement," 2012 Conference, August 18-24, 2012, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil 126748, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    12. María Molinos-Senante & Alexandros Maziotis & Ramon Sala-Garrido, 2017. "Assessment of the Total Factor Productivity Change in the English and Welsh Water Industry: a Färe-Primont Productivity Index Approach," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 31(8), pages 2389-2405, June.
    13. Lijiu Zhao & Tao Jin & Lintao Qin & Zaijun Li, 2023. "Chinese Agriculture for “Green and Grain” Productivity Growth: Evidence from Jiangsu Province," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(24), pages 1-14, December.
    14. Dai, Xiaoyong & Sun, Zao, 2021. "Does firm innovation improve aggregate industry productivity? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 1-9.
    15. Dai, Xiaoyong & Cheng, Liwei, 2019. "Aggregate productivity losses from factor misallocation across Chinese manufacturing firms," Economic Systems, Elsevier, vol. 43(1), pages 30-41.
    16. Gao, Yuning & Zhang, Meichen & Zheng, Jinghai, 2021. "Accounting and determinants analysis of China's provincial total factor productivity considering carbon emissions," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 65(C).
    17. Kluge, Jan & Lappoehn, Sarah & Plank, Kerstin, 2020. "The Determinants of Economic Competitiveness," IHS Working Paper Series 24, Institute for Advanced Studies.

  8. C.J. O’Donnell & K. Nguyen, 2011. "An Econometric Approach To Estimating Support Prices And Measures Of Productivity Change In Public Hospitals," CEPA Working Papers Series WP032011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

    Cited by:

    1. Malikov, Emir, 2016. "Estimating Multi-Product Production Functions and Productivity using Control Functions," 2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts 235108, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    2. Shabbir Ahmad, 2020. "Estimating input-mix efficiency in a parametric framework: application to state-level agricultural data for the United States," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(36), pages 3976-3997, July.
    3. Monica Giancotti & Annamaria Guglielmo & Marianna Mauro, 2017. "Efficiency and optimal size of hospitals: Results of a systematic search," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(3), pages 1-40, March.
    4. Zhichao Wang & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Performance Analysis of Hospitals in Australia and its Peers: A Systematic Review," CEPA Working Papers Series WP012021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    5. Ahmad, Shabbir & Shankar, Sriram & Steen, John & Verreynne, Martie-Louise & Burki, Abid Aman, 2021. "Using measures of efficiency for regionally-targeted smallholder policy intervention: The case of Pakistan’s horticulture sector," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 101(C).
    6. Valentin Zelenyuk & Zhichao Wang, 2023. "Random vs. Explained Inefficiency in Stochastic Frontier Analysis: The Case of Queensland Hospitals," CEPA Working Papers Series WP052023, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    7. Mamardashvili, Phatima & Bokusheva, Raushan & Schmid, Dierk, 2014. "Heterogeneous Farm Output and Technical Efficiency Estimates," German Journal of Agricultural Economics, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Department for Agricultural Economics, vol. 63(01), pages 1-15, March.
    8. Danelon, André Felipe & Spolador, Humberto Francisco Silva & Bergtold, Jason Scott, 2023. "The role of productivity and efficiency gains in the sugar-ethanol industry to reduce land expansion for sugarcane fields in Brazil," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 172(C).
    9. J. Laurenceson & C.J. O’Donnell, 2011. "New Estimates and a Decomposition of Provincial Productivity Change in China," CEPA Working Papers Series WP042011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    10. Emir Malikov & Gudbrand Lien, 2021. "Proxy Variable Estimation of Multiproduct Production Functions," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 103(5), pages 1878-1902, October.
    11. Maietta, Ornella Wanda & De Devitiis, Biagia & Destefanis, Sergio & Suppa, Domenico, 2019. "Human capital and rural development policy: evidence from European FADN regions," Bio-based and Applied Economics Journal, Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA), vol. 8(3), December.
    12. Biagia De Devitiis & Ornella Wanda Maietta, 2015. "Shadow Prices of Human Capital in Agriculture. Evidence from European FADN Regions," CSEF Working Papers 415, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy.
    13. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Zhichao Wang & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2023. "Efficiency of Queensland Public Hospitals via Spatial Panel Stochastic Frontier Models," CEPA Working Papers Series WP102023, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    14. O’Donnell, C.J., 2016. "Using information about technologies, markets and firm behaviour to decompose a proper productivity index," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 190(2), pages 328-340.
    15. O'Donnell, C.J., 2014. "Technologies, Markets and Behaviour: Some Implications for Estimating Efficiency and Productivity Change," 2014 Conference (58th), February 4-7, 2014, Port Macquarie, Australia 165867, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    16. C. J. O’Donnell & Saeideh Fallah-Fini & Konstantinos Triantis, 2017. "Measuring and analysing productivity change in a metafrontier framework," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 47(2), pages 117-128, April.
    17. Gavilan, José M. & Ortega, Francisco J., 2020. "Productive efficiency analysis of quantitative economics journals through Stochastic Frontier Analysis using panel data || Análisis de eficiencia productiva de revistas de economía cuantitativa a trav," Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y la Empresa = Journal of Quantitative Methods for Economics and Business Administration, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics and Business Administration, vol. 30(1), pages 297-311, December.
    18. C.J. O'Donnell, 2011. "The Sources of Productivity Change in the Manufacturing Sectors of the U.S. Economy," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

  9. C.J. O'Donnell, 2011. "The Sources of Productivity Change in the Manufacturing Sectors of the U.S. Economy," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

    Cited by:

    1. Lee, Boon L. & Wilson, Clevo & Simshauser, Paul & Majiwa, Eucabeth, 2021. "Deregulation, efficiency and policy determination: An analysis of Australia's electricity distribution sector," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 98(C).
    2. J. Laurenceson & C.J. O’Donnell, 2011. "New Estimates and a Decomposition of Provincial Productivity Change in China," CEPA Working Papers Series WP042011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    3. C.J. O'Donnell & S. Fallah-Fini & K, Triantis, 2011. "Comparing Firm Performance Using Transitive Productivity Index Numbers in a Meta-frontier Framework," CEPA Working Papers Series WP082011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

  10. Sriram Shankar & Chris O'Donnell & John Quiggin, 2010. "Production Under Uncertainty: A Simulation Study," Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers WPR10_3, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland.

    Cited by:

    1. Sriram Shankar, 2015. "Efficiency analysis under uncertainty: a simulation study," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 59(2), pages 171-188, April.
    2. Robert Chambers & Teresa Serra & Spiro Stefanou, 2015. "Using ex ante output elicitation to model state-contingent technologies," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 43(1), pages 75-83, February.
    3. Taylan G. Topcu & Konstantinos Triantis, 2022. "An ex-ante DEA method for representing contextual uncertainties and stakeholder risk preferences," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 309(1), pages 395-423, February.
    4. Kota Minegishi, 2016. "Comparison of production risks in the state-contingent framework: application to balanced panel data," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 46(2), pages 121-138, December.
    5. Raushan Bokusheva & Lajos Baráth, 2024. "State‐contingent production technology formulation: Identifying states of nature using reduced‐form econometric models of crop yield," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 106(2), pages 805-827, March.

  11. Celine Nauges & Chris O'Donnell & John Quiggin, 2010. "Uncertainty and technical efficiency in Finnish agriculture: a state-contingent approach," Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers WPR10_2, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland.

    Cited by:

    1. Theodoros Skevas & Teresa Serra, 2016. "The role of pest pressure in technical and environmental inefficiency analysis of Dutch arable farms: an event-specific data envelopment approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 46(2), pages 139-153, December.
    2. Bostian, AJ & Bostian, Moriah & Laukkanen, Marita & Simola, Antti Mikko, 2017. "Assessing The Impact Of Agri-Environmental Management Practices On Farm Productivity When Adoption Is Endogenous," 2017 International Congress, August 28-September 1, 2017, Parma, Italy 261154, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    3. Alain CARPENTIER & Alexandre GOHIN & Paolo SCKOKAI & Alban THOMAS, 2015. "Economic modelling of agricultural production:past advances and new challenges," Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies - Revue d'Etudes en Agriculture et Environnement, INRA Department of Economics, vol. 96(1), pages 131-166.
    4. Tuan Nguyen-Anh & Chinh Hoang-Duc & Tuyen Tiet & Phu Nguyen-Van & Nguyen To-The, 2022. "Composite effects of human, natural and social capitals on sustainable food-crop farming in Sub-Saharan Africa," Post-Print hal-03927534, HAL.
    5. Tomas Baležentis, 2015. "The Sources of the Total Factor Productivity Growth in Lithuanian Family Farms: A Färe-Primont Index Approach," Prague Economic Papers, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2015(2), pages 225-241.
    6. Bouali Guesmi & Teresa Serra & Amr Radwan & José María Gil, 2018. "Efficiency of Egyptian organic agriculture: A local maximum likelihood approach," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 34(2), pages 441-455, March.
    7. Amer Ait Sidhoum, 2023. "Measuring farm productivity under production uncertainty," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 67(4), pages 672-687, October.
    8. Macedo, Pedro & Scotto, Manuel, 2014. "Cross-entropy estimation in technical efficiency analysis," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 54(C), pages 124-130.
    9. Jean‐Paul Chavas & Céline Nauges, 2020. "Uncertainty, Learning, and Technology Adoption in Agriculture," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 42(1), pages 42-53, March.
    10. Sansi Yang & C Richard Shumway, 2018. "Asset fixity under state-contingent production uncertainty," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 45(5), pages 831-856.
    11. Nguyen To-The & Tuan Nguyen-Anh, 2021. "Impact of government intervention to maize efficiency at farmer’s level across time: a robust evidence in Northern Vietnam," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 23(2), pages 2038-2061, February.
    12. Taylan G. Topcu & Konstantinos Triantis, 2022. "An ex-ante DEA method for representing contextual uncertainties and stakeholder risk preferences," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 309(1), pages 395-423, February.
    13. Amer Ait Sidhoum, 2023. "Assessing the contribution of farmers’ working conditions to productive efficiency in the presence of uncertainty, a nonparametric approach," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 25(8), pages 8601-8622, August.
    14. Raushan Bokusheva & Lajos Baráth, 2024. "State‐contingent production technology formulation: Identifying states of nature using reduced‐form econometric models of crop yield," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 106(2), pages 805-827, March.
    15. Ashok K. Mishra & Mike G. Tsionas, 2020. "A Minimax Regret Approach to Decision Making Under Uncertainty," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 71(3), pages 698-718, September.
    16. Lien, Gudbrand & Kumbhakar, Subal C. & Mishra, Ashok K. & Hardaker, J. Brian, 2022. "Does risk management affect productivity of organic rice farmers in India? Evidence from a semiparametric production model," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(3), pages 1392-1402.

  12. C.J. O'Donnell, 2010. "Nonparametric Estimates Of The Components Of Productivity And Profitability Change In U.S. Agriculture," CEPA Working Papers Series WP022010, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

    Cited by:

    1. C.J. O’Donnell & K. Nguyen, 2011. "An Econometric Approach To Estimating Support Prices And Measures Of Productivity Change In Public Hospitals," CEPA Working Papers Series WP032011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    2. K. Kerstens & I. van de Woestyne, 2014. "Comparing Malmquist and Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indices : exploring the impact of unbalanced vs. balanced panel data," Post-Print hal-00907943, HAL.
    3. Arjomandi, Amir & Valadkhani, Abbas, 2010. "Banks’ Efficiency and Productivity Analysis Using the Hicks-Moorsteen Approach: A Case Study of Iran," Economics Working Papers wp10-11, School of Economics, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
    4. Julien, Jacques C. & Bravo-Ureta, Boris E. & Rada, Nicholas E., 2019. "Assessing farm performance by size in Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 84(C), pages 153-164.
    5. Choudhry, Sonam, 2021. "Is India's formal manufacturing sector ‘hollowing out’- importance of intermediate input," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 533-547.
    6. C.J. O’Donnell, 2011. "Econometric Estimation of Distance Functions and Associated Measures of Productivity and Efficiency Change," CEPA Working Papers Series WP012011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    7. Andreas Mayer & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2014. "An Aggregation Paradigm for Hicks-Moorsteen Productivity Indexes," CEPA Working Papers Series WP012014, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    8. Khafagy, Amr & Vigani, Mauro, 2022. "Technical change and the Common Agricultural Policy," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 109(C).
    9. Aparicio, Juan & López-Torres, Laura & Santín, Daniel, 2018. "Economic crisis and public education. A productivity analysis using a Hicks-Moorsteen index," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 34-44.
    10. J. Laurenceson & C.J. O’Donnell, 2011. "New Estimates and a Decomposition of Provincial Productivity Change in China," CEPA Working Papers Series WP042011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    11. Julien, Jacques C. & Bravo-Ureta, Boris E. & Rada, Nicholas E., 2023. "Gender and agricultural Productivity: Econometric evidence from Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 171(C).
    12. Ipatova, Irina, 2015. "The dynamics of total factor productivity and its components: Russian plastic production," Applied Econometrics, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), vol. 38(2), pages 21-40.
    13. C.J. O'Donnell & S. Fallah-Fini & K, Triantis, 2011. "Comparing Firm Performance Using Transitive Productivity Index Numbers in a Meta-frontier Framework," CEPA Working Papers Series WP082011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    14. Diewert, W. Erwin & Fox, Kevin J., 2017. "Decomposing productivity indexes into explanatory factors," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 256(1), pages 275-291.
    15. Hiep, Tran Duc & Trung, Bui Hoang & Van Chien, Le, 2022. "Quantifying productivity gains from foreign direct investment: The mediating role of provincial institutional quality," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 49(C).
    16. Mullen, John & Keogh, Mick, 2013. "The Future Productivity and Competitiveness Challenge for Australian Agriculture," 2013 Conference (57th), February 5-8, 2013, Sydney, Australia 152170, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    17. Constant, Labintan Adeniyi & Shijun, Ding, 2012. "Benin Agriculture Productivity and profitability Measurement," 2012 Conference, August 18-24, 2012, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil 126748, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    18. Andrew Maredza & Sylvanus Ikhide, 2013. "The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Efficiency and Productivity of the Banking System in South Africa," Working Papers 328, Economic Research Southern Africa.
    19. Brennan, Shae & Haelermans, Carla & Ruggiero, John, 2014. "Nonparametric estimation of education productivity incorporating nondiscretionary inputs with an application to Dutch schools," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 234(3), pages 809-818.
    20. See, Kok Fong & Li, Fei, 2015. "Total factor productivity analysis of the UK airport industry: A Hicks-Moorsteen index method," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 43(C), pages 1-10.
    21. Tran, Trung & Thanh, Hai Trinh & Van Le, Dao & Phuong, Thao Trinh Thi & Lan, Phuong Nguyen, 2022. "Does government financial support decrease the inefficiency of public universities? A decomposition approach," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 47(PA).
    22. Souza, Geraldo da Silva e & Gomes, Eliane Gonçalves & Alves, Eliseu Roberto de Andrade & Gasques, José Garcia, 2020. "Technological progress in the Brazilian agriculture," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 72(C).
    23. Neves Bezerra de Melo, Felipe Luiz & Sampaio, Raquel Menezes Bezerra & Sampaio, Luciano Menezes Bezerra, 2018. "Efficiency, productivity gains, and the size of Brazilian supermarkets," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 197(C), pages 99-111.
    24. Ahmad, Shabbir & Steen, John & Ali, Saleem & Valenta, Rick, 2023. "Carbon-adjusted efficiency and technology gaps in gold mining," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    25. Arjomandi, Amir & Valadkhani, Abbas & O’Brien, Martin, 2014. "Analysing banks’ intermediation and operational performance using the Hicks–Moorsteen TFP index: The case of Iran," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 30(C), pages 111-125.
    26. Christopher O`Donnell, 2014. "An Economic Approach to Identifying the Drivers of Productivity Change in the Market Sectors of the Australian Economy," CEPA Working Papers Series WP022014, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    27. C.J. O'Donnell, 2011. "The Sources of Productivity Change in the Manufacturing Sectors of the U.S. Economy," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

  13. C.J. O'Donnell, 2010. "DPIN Version 1.0: A Program for Decomposing Productivity Index Numbers," CEPA Working Papers Series WP012010, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

    Cited by:

    1. Christopher J. O’Donnell, 2016. "Nonparametric Estimates of the Components of Productivity and Profitability Change in U.S. Agriculture," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: Joe Zhu (ed.), Data Envelopment Analysis, chapter 0, pages 515-541, Springer.
    2. Arjomandi, Amir & Valadkhani, Abbas, 2010. "Banks’ Efficiency and Productivity Analysis Using the Hicks-Moorsteen Approach: A Case Study of Iran," Economics Working Papers wp10-11, School of Economics, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
    3. Islam, Nazrul & Xayavong, Vilaphonh & Kingwell, Ross, 2014. "Broadacre farm productivity and profitability in south-western Australia," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 58(2), April.
    4. J. Laurenceson & C.J. O’Donnell, 2011. "New Estimates and a Decomposition of Provincial Productivity Change in China," CEPA Working Papers Series WP042011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

  14. O'Donnell, Christopher J., 2009. "Measuring And Decomposing Agricultural Productivity And Profitability Change," 2009 Conference (53rd), February 11-13, 2009, Cairns, Australia 47625, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.

    Cited by:

    1. Islam, Nazrul & Kingwell, Ross & Xayavong, Vilaphonh & Anderton, Lucy & Feldman, David & Speijers, Jane, 2018. "Broadacre Farm Productivity Trajectories and Farm Characteristics," Australasian Agribusiness Review, University of Melbourne, Department of Agriculture and Food Systems, vol. 26.
    2. C.J. O’Donnell & K. Nguyen, 2011. "An Econometric Approach To Estimating Support Prices And Measures Of Productivity Change In Public Hospitals," CEPA Working Papers Series WP032011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    3. Epure, Mircea & Kerstens, Kristiaan & Prior, Diego, 2011. "Technology-based total factor productivity and benchmarking: New proposals and an application," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 39(6), pages 608-619, December.
    4. Perks, Christopher & McGill, Kristin & Curtotti, Robert, 2011. "Vessel-level productivity in Commonwealth fisheries," 2011 Conference (55th), February 8-11, 2011, Melbourne, Australia 100694, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    5. K. Kerstens & I. van de Woestyne, 2014. "Comparing Malmquist and Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indices : exploring the impact of unbalanced vs. balanced panel data," Post-Print hal-00907943, HAL.
    6. C.J. O'Donnell, 2010. "DPIN Version 1.0: A Program for Decomposing Productivity Index Numbers," CEPA Working Papers Series WP012010, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    7. Christopher J. O’Donnell, 2016. "Nonparametric Estimates of the Components of Productivity and Profitability Change in U.S. Agriculture," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: Joe Zhu (ed.), Data Envelopment Analysis, chapter 0, pages 515-541, Springer.
    8. Arjomandi, Amir & Valadkhani, Abbas, 2010. "Banks’ Efficiency and Productivity Analysis Using the Hicks-Moorsteen Approach: A Case Study of Iran," Economics Working Papers wp10-11, School of Economics, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
    9. Mullen, John D., 2012. "Public investment in agricultural research and development in Australia remains a sensible policy option," AFBM Journal, Australasian Farm Business Management Network, vol. 8(2), pages 1-11, April.
    10. Hughes, Neal & Lawson, Kenton & Davidson, Alistair & Jackson, Tom & Sheng, Yu, 2011. "Productivity pathways: climate-adjusted production frontiers for the Australian broadacre cropping industry," 2011 Conference (55th), February 8-11, 2011, Melbourne, Australia 100563, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    11. Islam, Nazrul & Xayavong, Vilaphonh & Kingwell, Ross, 2014. "Broadacre farm productivity and profitability in south-western Australia," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 58(2), April.
    12. C.J. O’Donnell, 2011. "Econometric Estimation of Distance Functions and Associated Measures of Productivity and Efficiency Change," CEPA Working Papers Series WP012011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    13. W. Erwin Diewert, 2010. "Decompositions of Profitability Change using Cost Functions," CEPA Working Papers Series WP092010, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    14. Viet-Ngu Hoang & Mohammad Alauddin, 2012. "Input-Orientated Data Envelopment Analysis Framework for Measuring and Decomposing Economic, Environmental and Ecological Efficiency: An Application to OECD Agriculture," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 51(3), pages 431-452, March.
    15. Nolan, Elizabeth & Santos, Paulo & Shi, Guanming, 2012. "Market concentration and productivity in the United States corn sector: 2002-2009," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 125941, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    16. Aparicio, Juan & López-Torres, Laura & Santín, Daniel, 2018. "Economic crisis and public education. A productivity analysis using a Hicks-Moorsteen index," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 34-44.
    17. J. Laurenceson & C.J. O’Donnell, 2011. "New Estimates and a Decomposition of Provincial Productivity Change in China," CEPA Working Papers Series WP042011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    18. C.J. O'Donnell, 2008. "An aggregate quantity-price framework for measuring and Decomposing productivity and profitability change," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072008, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    19. C.J. O'Donnell & S. Fallah-Fini & K, Triantis, 2011. "Comparing Firm Performance Using Transitive Productivity Index Numbers in a Meta-frontier Framework," CEPA Working Papers Series WP082011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    20. Diewert, W. Erwin & Fox, Kevin J., 2017. "Decomposing productivity indexes into explanatory factors," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 256(1), pages 275-291.
    21. Karanja, Francis & Gilmour, Daniel & Fraser, Iain, 2012. "Dairy productivity growth, efficiency change and technological progress in Victoria," 2012 Conference (56th), February 7-10, 2012, Fremantle, Australia 125053, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    22. Mullen, John & Keogh, Mick, 2013. "The Future Productivity and Competitiveness Challenge for Australian Agriculture," 2013 Conference (57th), February 5-8, 2013, Sydney, Australia 152170, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    23. Andrew Maredza & Sylvanus Ikhide, 2013. "The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Efficiency and Productivity of the Banking System in South Africa," Working Papers 328, Economic Research Southern Africa.
    24. Redmond, Thomas & Nolan, Elizabeth & Martin, Peter J., 2011. "Evaluating the genetic progress of wheat in NSW, 1992-2009," 2011 Conference (55th), February 8-11, 2011, Melbourne, Australia 100702, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    25. Islam, Nazrul & Xayavong, Vilaphonh & Anderton, Lucy & Feldman, David, 2014. "Farm productivity in an Australian region affected by a changing climate," 2014 Conference (58th), February 4-7, 2014, Port Macquarie, Australia 165842, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    26. Sheng, Yu & Gray, Emily M. & Mullen, John D., 2011. "Public investment in R&D and extension and productivity in Australian broadacre agriculture," 2011 Conference (55th), February 8-11, 2011, Melbourne, Australia 100712, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    27. Khoshroo, Alireza & Izadikhah, Mohammad & Emrouznejad, Ali, 2022. "Total factor energy productivity considering undesirable pollutant outputs: A new double frontier based malmquist productivity index," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 258(C).
    28. Arjomandi, Amir & Valadkhani, Abbas & O’Brien, Martin, 2014. "Analysing banks’ intermediation and operational performance using the Hicks–Moorsteen TFP index: The case of Iran," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 30(C), pages 111-125.
    29. C.J. O'Donnell, 2011. "The Sources of Productivity Change in the Manufacturing Sectors of the U.S. Economy," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

  15. Nauges, Celine & O'Donnell, Christopher J. & Quiggin, John C., 2009. "Uncertainty and technical efficiency in Finnish Agriculture," 2009 Conference (53rd), February 11-13, 2009, Cairns, Australia 48062, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.

    Cited by:

    1. Chris OÕDonnell & Robert G. Chambers & John Quiggin, "undated". "Efficiency analysis in the presence of uncertainty," Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers WP2R06, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland.
    2. Huettel, Silke & Narayana, Rashmi & Odening, Martin, 2011. "Measuring dynamic efficiency under uncertainty," Structural Change in Agriculture/Strukturwandel im Agrarsektor (SiAg) Working Papers 129062, Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Agricultural Economics.

  16. O'Donnell, Christopher J. & Shankar, Sriram, 2009. "Estimating State-Allocable Production Technologies When There are Two States of Nature and State Allocations of Inputs are Unobserved," 2009 Conference (53rd), February 11-13, 2009, Cairns, Australia 50898, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.

    Cited by:

    1. S.Shankar & C.J. O’Donnell & John Quiggin, 2010. "Production Under Uncertainty: A Simulation Study," CEPA Working Papers Series WP052010, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

  17. C.J. O'Donnell, 2008. "An aggregate quantity-price framework for measuring and Decomposing productivity and profitability change," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072008, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

    Cited by:

    1. C.J. O’Donnell & K. Nguyen, 2011. "An Econometric Approach To Estimating Support Prices And Measures Of Productivity Change In Public Hospitals," CEPA Working Papers Series WP032011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    2. Perks, Christopher & McGill, Kristin & Curtotti, Robert, 2011. "Vessel-level productivity in Commonwealth fisheries," 2011 Conference (55th), February 8-11, 2011, Melbourne, Australia 100694, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    3. C.J. O'Donnell, 2010. "DPIN Version 1.0: A Program for Decomposing Productivity Index Numbers," CEPA Working Papers Series WP012010, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    4. Christopher J. O’Donnell, 2016. "Nonparametric Estimates of the Components of Productivity and Profitability Change in U.S. Agriculture," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: Joe Zhu (ed.), Data Envelopment Analysis, chapter 0, pages 515-541, Springer.
    5. Arjomandi, Amir & Valadkhani, Abbas, 2010. "Banks’ Efficiency and Productivity Analysis Using the Hicks-Moorsteen Approach: A Case Study of Iran," Economics Working Papers wp10-11, School of Economics, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
    6. Chen, Xiaoqing & Liu, Xinwang & Zhu, Qingyuan, 2022. "Comparative analysis of total factor productivity in China's high-tech industries," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 175(C).
    7. C.J. O’Donnell, 2011. "Econometric Estimation of Distance Functions and Associated Measures of Productivity and Efficiency Change," CEPA Working Papers Series WP012011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    8. W. Erwin Diewert, 2010. "Decompositions of Profitability Change using Cost Functions," CEPA Working Papers Series WP092010, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    9. J. Laurenceson & C.J. O’Donnell, 2011. "New Estimates and a Decomposition of Provincial Productivity Change in China," CEPA Working Papers Series WP042011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    10. Sabasi, Darlington & Kompaniyets, Lyudmyla, 2015. "Impact of credit constraints on profitability and productivity in U.S. agriculture," 2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California 205689, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    11. O'Donnell, Christopher J., 2009. "Measuring And Decomposing Agricultural Productivity And Profitability Change," 2009 Conference (53rd), February 11-13, 2009, Cairns, Australia 47625, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    12. Ipatova, Irina, 2015. "The dynamics of total factor productivity and its components: Russian plastic production," Applied Econometrics, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), vol. 38(2), pages 21-40.
    13. C.J. O'Donnell & S. Fallah-Fini & K, Triantis, 2011. "Comparing Firm Performance Using Transitive Productivity Index Numbers in a Meta-frontier Framework," CEPA Working Papers Series WP082011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    14. C.J. O'Donnell, 2011. "The Sources of Productivity Change in the Manufacturing Sectors of the U.S. Economy," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

  18. William E Griffiths & Lisa S Newton & Christopher J O’Donnell, 2008. "Predictive Densities for Shire Level Wheat Yield in Western Australia," Department of Economics - Working Papers Series 1051, The University of Melbourne.

    Cited by:

    1. Griffiths, W.E., 2001. "Bayesian Inference in the Seemingly Unrelated Regressions Models," Department of Economics - Working Papers Series 793, The University of Melbourne.
    2. William Griffiths, 2002. "A Gibbs’ Sampler for the Parameters of a Truncated Multivariate Normal Distribution," Department of Economics - Working Papers Series 856, The University of Melbourne.

  19. O'Donnell, Christopher J., 2007. "Estimating the Characteristics of Polluting Technologies," 2007 Conference (51st), February 13-16, 2007, Queenstown, New Zealand 10413, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.

    Cited by:

    1. C.J. O’Donnell, 2011. "Econometric Estimation of Distance Functions and Associated Measures of Productivity and Efficiency Change," CEPA Working Papers Series WP012011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

  20. O'Donnell, Chris & Chambers, Robert G. & Quiggin, John, 2006. "Efficiency analysis in the presence of uncertainty," Risk and Sustainable Management Group Working Papers 151176, University of Queensland, School of Economics.

    Cited by:

    1. Celine Nauges & Chris O'Donnell & John Quiggin, 2010. "Uncertainty and technical efficiency in Finnish agriculture: a state-contingent approach," Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers WPR10_2, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland.
    2. Theodoros Skevas & Teresa Serra, 2016. "The role of pest pressure in technical and environmental inefficiency analysis of Dutch arable farms: an event-specific data envelopment approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 46(2), pages 139-153, December.
    3. Serra, Teresa & Zilberman, David & Gil, Jose Maria, 2007. "Farms' Technical Inefficiencies in the Presence of Government Programs," 2007 Annual Meeting, July 29-August 1, 2007, Portland, Oregon 9952, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    4. Quiggin, John C. & Chambers, Robert G., 2006. "The state-contingent approach to production under uncertainty," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 50(2), pages 1-17, June.
    5. Vaneet Bhatia & Sankarshan Basu & Subrata Kumar Mitra & Pradyumna Dash, 2018. "A review of bank efficiency and productivity," OPSEARCH, Springer;Operational Research Society of India, vol. 55(3), pages 557-600, November.
    6. S.Shankar & C.J. O’Donnell & John Quiggin, 2010. "Production Under Uncertainty: A Simulation Study," CEPA Working Papers Series WP052010, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    7. Mullen, John D., 2007. "Productivity growth and the returns from public investment in R&D in Australian broadacre agriculture," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 51(4), pages 1-26.
    8. Serra, Teresa & Oude Lansink, Alfons, 2014. "Measuring the impacts of production risk on technical efficiency: A state-contingent conditional order-m approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 239(1), pages 237-242.
    9. Orea, Luis, 2019. "The Econometric Measurement of Firms’ Efficiency," Efficiency Series Papers 2019/02, University of Oviedo, Department of Economics, Oviedo Efficiency Group (OEG).
    10. Bannor, Frank & Dikgang, Johane & Kutela Gelo, Dambala, 2021. "Interdependence between research and development, climate variability and agricultural production: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa," MPRA Paper 105697, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    11. Serra, Teresa & Chambers, Robert G. & Oude Lansink, Alfons, 2014. "Measuring technical and environmental efficiency in a state-contingent technology," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 236(2), pages 706-717.
    12. Zhou, Xianbo & Li, Kui-Wai & Li, Qin, 2010. "An Analysis on Technical Efficiency in Post-reform China," MPRA Paper 41034, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    13. Gregg, Daniel & Rolfe, John, 2016. "The value of environment across efficiency quantiles: A conditional regression quantiles analysis of rangelands beef production in north Eastern Australia," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 128(C), pages 44-54.
    14. Nathaniel D. Bastian & Tahir Ekin & Hyojung Kang & Paul M. Griffin & Lawrence V. Fulton & Benjamin C. Grannan, 2017. "Stochastic multi-objective auto-optimization for resource allocation decision-making in fixed-input health systems," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 20(2), pages 246-264, June.
    15. Amer Ait Sidhoum, 2023. "Measuring farm productivity under production uncertainty," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 67(4), pages 672-687, October.
    16. O'Donnell, Christopher J. & Shankar, Sriram, 2009. "Estimating State-Allocable Production Technologies When There are Two States of Nature and State Allocations of Inputs are Unobserved," 2009 Conference (53rd), February 11-13, 2009, Cairns, Australia 50898, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    17. Hughes, Neal & Lawson, Kenton & Davidson, Alistair & Jackson, Tom & Sheng, Yu, 2011. "Productivity pathways: climate-adjusted production frontiers for the Australian broadacre cropping industry," 2011 Conference (55th), February 8-11, 2011, Melbourne, Australia 100563, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    18. Macedo, Pedro & Scotto, Manuel, 2014. "Cross-entropy estimation in technical efficiency analysis," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 54(C), pages 124-130.
    19. Bouali Guesmi & Teresa Serra & Allen Featherstone, 2015. "Technical efficiency of Kansas arable crop farms: a local maximum likelihood approach," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 46(6), pages 703-713, November.
    20. Kapelko, Magdalena & Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M. & Stefanou, Spiro E., 2012. "Assessing dynamic efficiency of the Spanish construction sector pre- and post-financial crisis," 131st Seminar, September 18-19, 2012, Prague, Czech Republic 135790, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    21. Robert Chambers & Teresa Serra & Spiro Stefanou, 2015. "Using ex ante output elicitation to model state-contingent technologies," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 43(1), pages 75-83, February.
    22. Adamson, David & Mallawaarachchi, Thilak & Quiggin, John C., 2007. "Water use and salinity in the Murray–Darling Basin: A state-contingent model," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 51(3), pages 1-19.
    23. Holden, Stein T., 2015. "Risk Preferences, Shocks and Technology Adoption: Farmers’ Responses to Drought Risk," CLTS Working Papers 3/15, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Centre for Land Tenure Studies, revised 11 Oct 2019.
    24. Stephanie McWhinnie & Kofi Otumawu-Apreku, 2013. "Profit Efficiency of the South Australian Rock Lobster Fishery: Nerlovian and Directional Distance Function Approach," School of Economics and Public Policy Working Papers 2013-13, University of Adelaide, School of Economics and Public Policy.
    25. Stephanie McWhinnie & Kofi Otumawu-Apreku, 2013. "Evaluating Profit Efficiency of the South Australian Rock Lobster Fishery: Nerlovian and Directional Distance Function Approach," School of Economics and Public Policy Working Papers 2013-18, University of Adelaide, School of Economics and Public Policy.
    26. Kashika Arora & Areej A. Siddiqui & Biswajit Nag, 2020. "Devevloping Linkages Between Export Guarantees And Technical Efficiency Of Indian Firms," Working Papers 2045, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.
    27. O'Donnell, Christopher J., 2009. "Measuring And Decomposing Agricultural Productivity And Profitability Change," 2009 Conference (53rd), February 11-13, 2009, Cairns, Australia 47625, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    28. Williams, John & McSweeney, Peter & Salmon, Robert, 2014. "Australian Farm Investment: Domestic and Overseas Issues," Papers 234408, University of Melbourne, Melbourne School of Land and Environment.
    29. Pedro Macedo & Elvira Silva & Manuel Scotto, 2014. "Technical efficiency with state-contingent production frontiers using maximum entropy estimators," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 41(1), pages 131-140, February.
    30. Taylan G. Topcu & Konstantinos Triantis, 2022. "An ex-ante DEA method for representing contextual uncertainties and stakeholder risk preferences," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 309(1), pages 395-423, February.
    31. Amer Ait Sidhoum, 2023. "Assessing the contribution of farmers’ working conditions to productive efficiency in the presence of uncertainty, a nonparametric approach," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 25(8), pages 8601-8622, August.
    32. Nauges, Celine & O'Donnell, Christopher J. & Quiggin, John C., 2009. "Uncertainty and technical efficiency in Finnish Agriculture," 2009 Conference (53rd), February 11-13, 2009, Cairns, Australia 48062, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    33. Jean Joseph Minviel & Timo Sipiläinen, 2018. "Dynamic stochastic analysis of the farm subsidy-efficiency link: evidence from France," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 50(1), pages 41-54, October.
    34. Yin, Pengzhen & Sun, Jiasen & Chu, Junfei & Liang, Liang, 2016. "Evaluating the environmental efficiency of a two-stage system with undesired outputs by a DEA approach: An interest preference perspectiveAuthor-Name: Wu, Jie," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 254(3), pages 1047-1062.
    35. Charoenrat, Teerawat & Harvie, Charles, 2014. "The efficiency of SMEs in Thai manufacturing: A stochastic frontier analysis," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 43(C), pages 372-393.
    36. Holden , Stein T. & Quiggin, John, 2015. "Climate risk and state-contingent technology adoption: The role of risk preferences and probability weighting," Working Paper Series 15-2015, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, School of Economics and Business.
    37. Skevas, Theodoros & Lansink, Alfons Oude & Stefanou, Spiro E., 2012. "Measuring technical efficiency in the presence of pesticide spillovers and production uncertainty: The case of Dutch arable farms," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 223(2), pages 550-559.
    38. Raushan Bokusheva & Lajos Baráth, 2024. "State‐contingent production technology formulation: Identifying states of nature using reduced‐form econometric models of crop yield," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 106(2), pages 805-827, March.
    39. Huettel, Silke & Narayana, Rashmi & Odening, Martin, 2011. "Measuring dynamic efficiency under uncertainty," Structural Change in Agriculture/Strukturwandel im Agrarsektor (SiAg) Working Papers 129062, Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Agricultural Economics.
    40. Bouali Guesmi & Ahmed Yangui & Ibtissem Taghouti & José Maria Gil, 2022. "Trade-Off between Land Use Pattern and Technical Efficiency Performance: Evidence from Arable Crop Farming in Tunisia," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-13, December.
    41. Tozer, Peter R. & Villano, Renato, 2013. "Decomposing Productivity and Efficiency among Western Australian Grain Producers," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Western Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 38(3), pages 1-15.
    42. Ashok K. Mishra & Mike G. Tsionas, 2020. "A Minimax Regret Approach to Decision Making Under Uncertainty," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 71(3), pages 698-718, September.
    43. Lien, Gudbrand & Kumbhakar, Subal C. & Mishra, Ashok K. & Hardaker, J. Brian, 2022. "Does risk management affect productivity of organic rice farmers in India? Evidence from a semiparametric production model," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(3), pages 1392-1402.

  21. Villano, Renato A. & O'Donnell, Christopher J. & Battese, George E., 2005. "An Investigation of Production Risk, Risk Preferences and Technical Efficiency: Evidence From Rainfed Lowland Rice Farms in the Philippines," Working Papers 12953, University of New England, School of Economics.

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    2. Serra, Teresa & Zilberman, David & Gil, Jose Maria, 2007. "Farms' Technical Inefficiencies in the Presence of Government Programs," 2007 Annual Meeting, July 29-August 1, 2007, Portland, Oregon 9952, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    3. Hurley, Terrance M., 2010. "A review of agricultural production risk in the developing world," Working Papers 188476, HarvestChoice.
    4. Villano, Renato A. & Lucas, Marilou P. & Pandey, Sushil, 2005. "An Analysis of Scope Economies and Technical Efficiency in Intensive Rainfed Lowland Rice-based Cropping Systems in Northwest Luzon, Philippines," 2005 Conference (49th), February 9-11, 2005, Coff's Harbour, Australia 139294, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.

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    1. Celine Nauges & Chris O'Donnell & John Quiggin, 2010. "Uncertainty and technical efficiency in Finnish agriculture: a state-contingent approach," Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers WPR10_2, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland.
    2. Theodoros Skevas & Teresa Serra, 2016. "The role of pest pressure in technical and environmental inefficiency analysis of Dutch arable farms: an event-specific data envelopment approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 46(2), pages 139-153, December.
    3. Chris OÕDonnell & Robert G. Chambers & John Quiggin, "undated". "Efficiency analysis in the presence of uncertainty," Risk & Uncertainty Working Papers WP2R06, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland.
    4. Hardaker, J. Brian & Lien, Gudbrand D., 2009. "What Next in Decision Analysis for Agricultural and Resource Economics?," 2009 Conference (53rd), February 11-13, 2009, Cairns, Australia 48160, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    5. Serra, Teresa & Zilberman, David & Gil, Jose Maria, 2007. "Farms' Technical Inefficiencies in the Presence of Government Programs," 2007 Annual Meeting, July 29-August 1, 2007, Portland, Oregon 9952, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    6. Quiggin, John C. & Chambers, Robert G., 2006. "The state-contingent approach to production under uncertainty," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 50(2), pages 1-17, June.
    7. Fleming, Euan M. & Farrell, Terence C. & Villano, Renato A. & Fleming, Pauline, 2006. "Is farm benchmarking the new acceptable face of comparative analysis?," Australasian Agribusiness Review, University of Melbourne, Department of Agriculture and Food Systems, vol. 14.
    8. Shen, Zhiyang & Bai, Kaixuan & Hong, Tianyang & Balezentis, Tomas, 2021. "Evaluation of carbon shadow price within a non-parametric meta-frontier framework: The case of OECD, ASEAN and BRICS," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 299(C).
    9. S.Shankar & C.J. O’Donnell & John Quiggin, 2010. "Production Under Uncertainty: A Simulation Study," CEPA Working Papers Series WP052010, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    10. Jean-Paul Chavas, 2012. "On learning and the economics of firm efficiency: a state-contingent approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 38(1), pages 53-62, August.
    11. Barnes, Andrew Peter & Revoredo-Giha, Cesar & Sauer, Johannes, 2011. "A metafrontier approach to measuring technical efficiencies across the UK dairy sector," 122nd Seminar, February 17-18, 2011, Ancona, Italy 99369, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    12. Orea, Luis, 2019. "The Econometric Measurement of Firms’ Efficiency," Efficiency Series Papers 2019/02, University of Oviedo, Department of Economics, Oviedo Efficiency Group (OEG).
    13. Serra, Teresa & Chambers, Robert G. & Oude Lansink, Alfons, 2014. "Measuring technical and environmental efficiency in a state-contingent technology," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 236(2), pages 706-717.
    14. Neal, Mark, 2007. "Estimating complex production functions: The importance of starting values," Risk and Sustainable Management Group Working Papers 151178, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    15. Hardaker, J. Brian & Lien, Gudbrand, 2010. "Probabilities for decision analysis in agriculture and rural resource economics: The need for a paradigm change," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 103(6), pages 345-350, July.
    16. Robert, Marion & Thomas, Alban & Bergez, Jacques Eric, 2016. "Processes of adpatation in farm decision-making models. A review," TSE Working Papers 16-731, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
    17. O'Donnell, Christopher J. & Shankar, Sriram, 2009. "Estimating State-Allocable Production Technologies When There are Two States of Nature and State Allocations of Inputs are Unobserved," 2009 Conference (53rd), February 11-13, 2009, Cairns, Australia 50898, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    18. Sille, AG & Salvioni, C. & Benedetti, R., 2015. "Spatial Heterogeneity in Production Functions Models," 2015 Conference, August 9-14, 2015, Milan, Italy 211343, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    19. Bhattacharyya, Aditi & Pal, Sudeshna, 2013. "Financial reforms and technical efficiency in Indian commercial banking: A generalized stochastic frontier analysis," Review of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 22(3), pages 109-117.
    20. Just, Richard E. & Just, David R., 2011. "Global identification of risk preferences with revealed preference data," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 162(1), pages 6-17, May.
    21. David Adamson, 2010. "Climate Change, Irrigation and Pests: Examining Heliothis in the Murray Darling Basin," Murray-Darling Program Working Papers WP1M10, Risk and Sustainable Management Group, University of Queensland.
    22. Feng, Chao & Zhang, Hua & Huang, Jian-Bai, 2017. "The approach to realizing the potential of emissions reduction in China: An implication from data envelopment analysis," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 859-872.
    23. Wang, Miao & Feng, Chao, 2023. "Measuring capacity utilization under the constraints of energy consumption and CO2 emissions using meta-frontier DEA: A case of China's non-ferrous metal industries," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
    24. Villano, Renato A. & Fleming, Euan M. & Fleming, Pauline, 2008. "Measuring Regional Productivity Differences in the Australian Wool Industry: A Metafrontier Approach," 2008 Conference (52nd), February 5-8, 2008, Canberra, Australia 6036, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    25. Sansi Yang & C Richard Shumway, 2018. "Asset fixity under state-contingent production uncertainty," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 45(5), pages 831-856.
    26. Robert Chambers & Teresa Serra & Spiro Stefanou, 2015. "Using ex ante output elicitation to model state-contingent technologies," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 43(1), pages 75-83, February.
    27. Adamson, David & Mallawaarachchi, Thilak & Quiggin, John C., 2007. "Water use and salinity in the Murray–Darling Basin: A state-contingent model," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 51(3), pages 1-19.
    28. Teresa Serra & Spiro Stefanou & Alfons Oude Lansink, 2010. "A dynamic dual model under state-contingent production uncertainty," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 37(3), pages 293-312, September.
    29. Chavas, Jean-Paul & Barham, Bradford L., 2007. "On Microeconomic Efficiency and Entrepreneurship under Bounded Rationality," Staff Papers 92142, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
    30. Ragnar Tveteras & Ola Flaten & Gudbrand Lien, 2011. "Production risk in multi-output industries: estimates from Norwegian dairy farms," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(28), pages 4403-4414.
    31. Adamson, David & Mallawaarachchi, Thilak & Quiggin, John, 2004. "Modelling basin level allocation of water in the Murray Darling Basin in a world of uncertainty," Risk and Sustainable Management Group Working Papers 149844, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    32. Pedro Macedo & Elvira Silva & Manuel Scotto, 2014. "Technical efficiency with state-contingent production frontiers using maximum entropy estimators," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 41(1), pages 131-140, February.
    33. Taylan G. Topcu & Konstantinos Triantis, 2022. "An ex-ante DEA method for representing contextual uncertainties and stakeholder risk preferences," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 309(1), pages 395-423, February.
    34. Jorge Andres, Perdomo Calvo & Darrell Lee, Hueth & Jorge Andres, Perdomo Calvo, 2011. "Funciones de producción, análisis de economías a escala y eficiencia técnica en el eje cafetero colombiano: una aproximación con frontera estocástica [Estimation of the Production Functional Form, ," MPRA Paper 37179, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    35. Mullen, John & Keogh, Mick, 2013. "The Future Productivity and Competitiveness Challenge for Australian Agriculture," 2013 Conference (57th), February 5-8, 2013, Sydney, Australia 152170, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    36. Christopher O’Donnell & D. Rao & George Battese, 2008. "Metafrontier frameworks for the study of firm-level efficiencies and technology ratios," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 34(2), pages 231-255, March.
    37. Barnes, Andrew Peter & Revoredo-Giha, Cesar, 2011. "A Metafrontier Analysis of Technical Efficiency of Selected European Agricultures," 2011 International Congress, August 30-September 2, 2011, Zurich, Switzerland 114807, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    38. Yin, Pengzhen & Sun, Jiasen & Chu, Junfei & Liang, Liang, 2016. "Evaluating the environmental efficiency of a two-stage system with undesired outputs by a DEA approach: An interest preference perspectiveAuthor-Name: Wu, Jie," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 254(3), pages 1047-1062.
    39. A. G. Billé & C. Salvioni & R. Benedetti, 2018. "Modelling spatial regimes in farms technologies," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 49(2), pages 173-185, June.
    40. Adam Loch & David Adamson, 2015. "Drought and the rebound effect: a Murray–Darling Basin example," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 79(3), pages 1429-1449, December.
    41. Preciado Arreola, José Luis & Johnson, Andrew L. & Chen, Xun C. & Morita, Hiroshi, 2020. "Estimating stochastic production frontiers: A one-stage multivariate semiparametric Bayesian concave regression method," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 287(2), pages 699-711.
    42. Quiggin, John & Chambers, Robert G., 2005. "The state-contingent approach to production and uncertainty," Risk and Sustainable Management Group Working Papers 151168, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    43. McClintock, Anthea, 2009. "Investment in irrigation technology: an application of real options analysis," 2009 Conference (53rd), February 11-13, 2009, Cairns, Australia 47934, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    44. Henderson, Benjamin B. & Kingwell, Ross S., 2005. "Rainfall and Farm Efficiency Measurement for Broadacre Agriculture in South-Western Australia," Australasian Agribusiness Review, University of Melbourne, Department of Agriculture and Food Systems, vol. 13.
    45. Kota Minegishi, 2016. "Comparison of production risks in the state-contingent framework: application to balanced panel data," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 46(2), pages 121-138, December.
    46. Huettel, Silke & Narayana, Rashmi & Odening, Martin, 2011. "Measuring dynamic efficiency under uncertainty," Structural Change in Agriculture/Strukturwandel im Agrarsektor (SiAg) Working Papers 129062, Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Agricultural Economics.
    47. Subal C. Kumbhakar & Jingfang Zhang & Gudbrand Lien, 2023. "Locationally Varying Production Technology and Productivity: The Case of Norwegian Farming," Econometrics, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-20, August.
    48. Pavlos Almanidis, 2013. "Accounting for heterogeneous technologies in the banking industry: a time-varying stochastic frontier model with threshold effects," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 39(2), pages 191-205, April.
    49. Robert Chambers & John Quiggin, 2007. "Information value and efficiency measurement for risk-averse firms," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 27(3), pages 197-208, June.
    50. Adamson, David, 2012. "The 2011 Basin Plan, Climate Change and the Buy-Back," Risk and Sustainable Management Group Working Papers 149884, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    51. O'Donnell, Christopher J., 2006. "Some Econometric Options For Dealing With Unknown Functional Form," 2006 Conference (50th), February 8-10, 2006, Sydney, Australia 137787, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.

  23. Templeton, Deborah J. & Griffith, Garry R. & Piggott, Roley R. & O'Donnell, Christopher J., 2004. "Measuring the Impact of Staple Strength-Enhancing Technologies on Australian Wool Producer Profits: A Duality-Based Approach," Working Papers 12922, University of New England, School of Economics.

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    2. Vere, David T. & Griffith, Garry R. & Silvester, Luke T., 2005. "Australian Sheep Industry CRC: Economic Evaluations of Scientific Research Programs," Research Reports 42651, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Research Economists.

  24. Supawat Rungsuriyawiboon & Chris O'Donnell, 2004. "Curvature-Constrained Estimates of Technical Efficiency and Returns to Scale for U.S. Electric Utilities," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072004, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

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  25. O'Donnell, Christopher J. & Griffith, Garry R. & Nightingale, John J. & Piggott, Roley R., 2004. "Testing for Market Power in Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output Industries: The Australian Grains and Oilseeds Industries," Research Reports 28008, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Research Economists.

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    1. Mounter, Stuart W. & Griffith, Garry R. & Piggott, Roley R. & Fleming, Euan M. & Zhao, Xueyan, 2007. "Composition of the National Sheep Flock and Specification of Equilibrium Prices and Quantities for the Australian Sheep and Wool Industries, 2002-03 to 2004-05," Research Reports 37664, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Research Economists.
    2. Griffith, Garry R. & Wright, Vic, 2009. "Chapter 2: The Case of Australia," Structural Changes in Food Retailing: Six Country Case Studies 60673, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Food System Research Group.
    3. Chung, Kit C. & Griffith, Garry R., 2009. "Another look at market power in the Australian fresh meat industries," Australasian Agribusiness Review, University of Melbourne, Department of Agriculture and Food Systems, vol. 17, pages 1-18.

  26. Tim J. Coelli & Chris O'Donnell, 2003. "A Bayesian Approach To Imposing Curvature On Distance Functions," CEPA Working Papers Series WP032003, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

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    1. Juan José Price & Arne Henningsen, "undated". "A Ray-Based Input Distance Function to Model Zero-Valued Output Quantities: Derivation and an Empirical Application," Working Papers 5, International Society for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis.
    2. Kellermann, Magnus A., 2015. "Total Factor Productivity Decomposition and Unobserved Heterogeneity in Stochastic Frontier Models," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, vol. 44(1), pages 1-25, April.
    3. Feng, Guohua & Serletis, Apostolos, 2010. "Efficiency, technical change, and returns to scale in large US banks: Panel data evidence from an output distance function satisfying theoretical regularity," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 34(1), pages 127-138, January.
    4. Andrew S. J. Smith & Jan-Eric Nilsson & Ivan Ridderstedt & Oskar Johansson, 2023. "Efficiency measurement in the tendering of road surface renewal contracts," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(2), pages 189-202, October.
    5. Supawat Rungsuriyawiboon & Chris O'Donnell, 2004. "Curvature-Constrained Estimates of Technical Efficiency and Returns to Scale for U.S. Electric Utilities," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072004, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    6. Xiaodong Du & David A. Hennessy & Cindy L. Yu, 2012. "Testing Day's Conjecture that More Nitrogen Decreases Crop Yield Skewness," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 94(1), pages 225-237.
    7. Oum, Tae H. & Yan, Jia & Yu, Chunyan, 2008. "Ownership forms matter for airport efficiency: A stochastic frontier investigation of worldwide airports," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 64(2), pages 422-435, September.
    8. Tomberlin, David & Holloway, Garth J., 2007. "Trip-Level Analysis of Efficiency Changes in Oregon's Deepwater Trawl Fishery," Natural Resources Management Working Papers 8223, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).
    9. Cullmann, Astrid & Farsi, Mehdi & Filippini Massimo, 2009. "Unobserved Heterogeneity and International Benchmarking in Public Trasport," Quaderni della facoltà di Scienze economiche dell'Università di Lugano 0904, USI Università della Svizzera italiana.
    10. Sauer, Johannes, 2006. "Monotonicity And Curvature - A Bootstrapping Approach," 46th Annual Conference, Giessen, Germany, October 4-6, 2006 14948, German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA).
    11. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2011. "A Note on Equivalences in Measuring Returns to Scale in Multi-output-multi-input Technologies," CEPA Working Papers Series WP052011, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    12. Brümmer, Bernhard & Glauben, Thomas & Lu, Wencong C., 2002. "Policy Reform and Productivity Change in Chinese Agriculture: A Distance Function Approach," 2002 International Congress, August 28-31, 2002, Zaragoza, Spain 24779, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    13. Caroline Khan & Mike G. Tsionas, 2021. "Constraints in models of production and cost via slack-based measures," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 61(6), pages 3347-3374, December.
    14. Michaelides, Panayotis G. & Vouldis, Angelos T. & Tsionas, Efthymios G., 2010. "Globally flexible functional forms: The neural distance function," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 206(2), pages 456-469, October.
    15. Tai-Hsin Huang & Yi-Huang Chiu & Chih-Ying Mao, 2021. "Imposing Regularity Conditions to Measure Banks’ Productivity Changes in Taiwan Using a Stochastic Approach," Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, Springer;Japanese Association of Financial Economics and Engineering, vol. 28(2), pages 273-303, June.
    16. Michaelides, Panayotis G. & Tsionas, Efthymios G. & Vouldis, Angelos T. & Konstantakis, Konstantinos N., 2015. "Global approximation to arbitrary cost functions: A Bayesian approach with application to US banking," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 241(1), pages 148-160.
    17. Patricia Tecles & Benjamin M. Tabak, 2010. "Determinants of Bank Efficiency: the Case of Brazil," Working Papers Series 210, Central Bank of Brazil, Research Department.
    18. Hajargasht, Gholamreza & Coelli, Tim & Rao, D.S. Prasada, 2008. "A dual measure of economies of scope," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 100(2), pages 185-188, August.
    19. Zhong, Shen & Li, Junwei & Chen, Xi & Wen, Hongmei, 2022. "A multi-hierarchy meta-frontier approach for measuring green total factor productivity: An application of pig breeding in China," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
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    21. Guohua Feng & Chuan Wang & Apostolos Serletis, 2018. "Shadow prices of $$\hbox {CO}_{2}$$ CO 2 emissions at US electric utilities: a random-coefficient, random-directional-vector directional output distance function approach," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 54(1), pages 231-258, February.
    22. Kaplan, David M. & Zhuo, Longhao, 2021. "Frequentist properties of Bayesian inequality tests," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 221(1), pages 312-336.
    23. Robertson R. B. Khataza & Atakelty Hailu & Marit E. Kragt & Graeme J. Doole, 2017. "Estimating shadow price for symbiotic nitrogen and technical efficiency for legume-based conservation agriculture in Malawi," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 61(3), pages 462-480, July.
    24. Yan, Jia & Sun, Xinyu & Liu, John J., 2009. "Assessing container operator efficiency with heterogeneous and time-varying production frontiers," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 43(1), pages 172-185, January.
    25. Mohamad, Noorihsan, 2014. "Telecommunications reform and efficiency performance: Do good institutions matter?," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 38(1), pages 49-65.
    26. Arne Henningsen & Christian Henning, 2009. "Imposing regional monotonicity on translog stochastic production frontiers with a simple three-step procedure," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 32(3), pages 217-229, December.
    27. Perelman, Sergio & Santín, Daniel, 2009. "How to generate regularly behaved production data? A Monte Carlo experimentation on DEA scale efficiency measurement," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 199(1), pages 303-310, November.
    28. Balcombe, Kelvin George & Doucouliagos, Hristos & Fraser, Iain, 2007. "Input usage, output mix and industry deregulation: an analysis of the Australian dairy manufacturing industry," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 51(2), pages 1-20.
    29. Guohua Feng & Bin Peng & Xiaohui Zhang, 2017. "Productivity and efficiency at bank holding companies in the U.S.: a time-varying heterogeneity approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 48(2), pages 179-192, December.
    30. Wolff, Hendrik & Heckelei, Thomas & Mittelhammer, Ronald C., 2004. "Imposing Monotonicity And Curvature On Flexible Functional Forms," 2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO 20256, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    31. Trond Bjorndal & Chandra Bahadur Adhikari, 2011. "Analyses of Technical Efficiency Using SDF and DEA Models: Evidence from Nepalese Agriculture," Post-Print hal-00708538, HAL.
    32. Changjun Zheng & Anupam Das Gupta & Syed Moudud-Ul-Huq, 2017. "Do market competition and development indicators matter for banks’ risk, capital, and efficiency relationship?," International Journal of Financial Engineering (IJFE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 4(02n03), pages 1-27, June.
    33. Owusu, Eric S. & Bravo-Ureta, Boris E., 2022. "Reap when you sow? The productivity impacts of early sowing in Malawi," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 199(C).
    34. Khezrimotlagh, Dariush, 2022. "Simulation designs for production frontiers," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(3), pages 1321-1334.
    35. Orea, Luis, 2019. "The Econometric Measurement of Firms’ Efficiency," Efficiency Series Papers 2019/02, University of Oviedo, Department of Economics, Oviedo Efficiency Group (OEG).
    36. Spotts, Harlan E. & Weinberger, Marc G. & Assaf, A. George & Weinberger, Michelle F., 2022. "The role of paid media, earned media, and sales promotions in driving marcom sales performance in consumer services," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 152(C), pages 387-397.
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    4. Moro, Daniele & Paolo, Sckokai & Veneziani, Mario, 2012. "Multi-stage Market Power in the Italian Fresh Meat Industry," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 125065, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    5. Klaus Salhofer & Christoph Tribl & Franz Sinabell, 2012. "Market power in Austrian food retailing: the case of milk products," Empirica, Springer;Austrian Institute for Economic Research;Austrian Economic Association, vol. 39(1), pages 109-122, February.
    6. Li, Kuo & Malcolm, Bill & Griffith, Garry & Kingwell, Ross, 2022. "A Model of the Southern Australian Grains Industry," Australasian Agribusiness Review, University of Melbourne, Department of Agriculture and Food Systems, vol. 30(2), April.
    7. O'Donnell, Christopher J. & Griffith, Garry R. & Nightingale, John J. & Piggott, Roley R., 2003. "Testing for Market Power in the Australian Grains and Oilseeds Industries: Further Results," 2003 Conference (47th), February 12-14, 2003, Fremantle, Australia 57930, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    8. Li, Kuo & Griffith, Garry & Kingwell, Ross & Malcolm, Bill, 2017. "Measuring the Returns to Investment in Research and Development in the Australian Grains Industry," 2017 Conference (61st), February 7-10, 2017, Brisbane, Australia 258674, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    9. Soregaroli, Claudio & Sckokai, Paolo & Moro, Daniele, 2011. "Agricultural policy modelling under imperfect competition," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 33(2), pages 195-212, March.
    10. Bhattacharyya, Aditi & Kutlu, Levent & Sickles, Robin C., 2018. "Pricing Inputs and Outputs: Market prices versus shadow prices, market power, and welfare analysis," Working Papers 18-009, Rice University, Department of Economics.
    11. Perekhozhuk, Oleksandr & Chezhia, Giorgi & Glauben, Thomas, 2021. "Measuring Oligopsony Market Power in Kazakh Grain-Processing Industry: Converging Evidence from Two Structural Approaches," 2021 Conference, August 17-31, 2021, Virtual 315345, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    12. Čechura, Lukáš & Jamali Jaghdani, Tinoush, 2021. "Market imperfections within the European wheat value chain: The case of France and the United Kingdom," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 11(9).

  33. William E. Griffiths & R. Carter Hill & Christopher J. O'Donnell, 2001. "Including Prior Information in Probit Model Estimation," Department of Economics - Working Papers Series 816, The University of Melbourne.

    Cited by:

    1. Francisco-José Polo & Miguel Negrín & Xavier Badía & Montse Roset, 2005. "Bayesian regression models for cost-effectiveness analysis," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 6(1), pages 45-52, March.

  34. Chua, C.L. & Griffiths, W.E. & O'Donnell, C.J., 2001. "Bayesian Model Averaging in Consumer Demand Systems with Inequality Constraints," Department of Economics - Working Papers Series 806, The University of Melbourne.

    Cited by:

    1. Griffiths, William E. & Newton, Lisa S. & O'Donnell, Christopher J., 2010. "Predictive densities for models with stochastic regressors and inequality constraints: Forecasting local-area wheat yield," International Journal of Forecasting, Elsevier, vol. 26(2), pages 397-412, April.
    2. Wolff, Hendrik & Heckelei, Thomas & Mittelhammer, Ronald C., 2004. "Imposing Monotonicity And Curvature On Flexible Functional Forms," 2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO 20256, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    3. Charles J. Romeo, 2016. "Incorporating Prior Information into A GMM Objective For Mixed Logit Demand Systems," Journal of Industrial Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 64(2), pages 336-363, June.
    4. Hendrik Wolff & Thomas Heckelei & Ron C. Mittelhammer, 2004. "Imposing Curvature and Monotonicity on Flexible Functional Forms: An Efficient Regional Approach," Econometric Society 2004 North American Summer Meetings 450, Econometric Society.
    5. Claudia Schmidt & Steven C. Deller & Stephan J. Goetz, 2024. "Women farmers and community well‐being under modeling uncertainty," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 46(1), pages 275-299, March.
    6. Sanvi Avouyi-Dovi & Christian Pfister & Franck Sédillot, 2019. "French Households’ Portfolio: The Financial Almost Ideal Demand System Appraisal," Working papers 728, Banque de France.

  35. Doran, Howard E. & O'Donnell, Christopher J. & Griffith, Garry R. & Chang, Hui-Shung (Christie) & Hutasuhut, Maradoli, 2001. "The Demand for Beef in Indonesia: Implications for Australian Agribusiness," Working Papers 12915, University of New England, School of Economics.

    Cited by:

    1. Fadhuile, Adelaide & Lemarie, Stephane & Pirotte, Alain, 2011. "Pesticides Uses in Crop Production: What Can We Learn from French Farmers Practices?," 2011 Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 103654, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    2. Mehmet Şahinli & Halil Fidan, 2012. "Estimation of food demand in Turkey: method of an almost ideal demand system," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 46(2), pages 653-663, February.
    3. Virginia Small & James Warn, 2020. "Impacts on food policy from traditional and social media framing of moral outrage and cultural stereotypes," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 37(2), pages 295-309, June.
    4. Olivia, Susan & Gibson, John, 2005. "Unit Value Biases in Price Elasticities of Demand for Meat in Indonesia," Australasian Agribusiness Review, University of Melbourne, Department of Agriculture and Food Systems, vol. 13.

  36. Hutasuhut, Maradoli & O'Donnell, Christopher J. & Chang, Hui-Shung (Christie) & Griffith, Garry R. & Doran, Howard E., 2000. "The Demand for Meats in Indonesia: A Censored Regression Approach," 2000 Conference (44th), January 23-25, 2000, Sydney, Australia 123666, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.

    Cited by:

    1. Hutasuhut, Maradoli & Chang, Hui-Shung & Griffith, Garry & O’Donnell, Chris & Doran, Howard, 2002. "The Demand for Beef in Indonesia: Implications for Australian Agribusiness," Australasian Agribusiness Review, University of Melbourne, Department of Agriculture and Food Systems, vol. 10, pages 1-10, August.
    2. Olivia, Susan & Gibson, John, 2003. "Unit Value Biases in Meat Demand in Indonesia," 2003 Conference (47th), February 12-14, 2003, Fremantle, Australia 58195, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    3. Olivia, Susan & Gibson, John, 2005. "Unit Value Biases in Price Elasticities of Demand for Meat in Indonesia," Australasian Agribusiness Review, University of Melbourne, Department of Agriculture and Food Systems, vol. 13.

  37. MacAulay, T. Gordon & Owen, Kate M. & O'Donnell, Christopher J., 1999. "Issues in Modelling the Australian Dairy Industry: Joint Products, Market Power and Deregulation," 1999 Conference (43th), January 20-22, 1999, Christchurch, New Zealand 123833, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.

    Cited by:

    1. MacAulay, T. Gordon, 2000. "Competition Policy in Agriculture: A Review of Methods," 2000 Conference (44th), January 23-25, 2000, Sydney, Australia 123697, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.

  38. Griffiths, William E. & O'Donnell, Christopher J. & Cruz, Agustina Tan, 1999. "Imposing Regularity Conditions On A System Of Cost And Factor Share Equations," Working Papers 12925, University of New England, School of Economics.

    Cited by:

    1. Tomberlin, David & Holloway, Garth J., 2007. "Trip-Level Analysis of Efficiency Changes in Oregon's Deepwater Trawl Fishery," Natural Resources Management Working Papers 8223, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).
    2. Christopher J. O'Donnell & Alicia N. Rambaldi & Howard E. Doran, 2001. "Estimating economic relationships subject to firm- and time-varying equality and inequality constraints," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 16(6), pages 709-726.
    3. Sauer, Johannes, 2006. "Monotonicity And Curvature - A Bootstrapping Approach," 46th Annual Conference, Giessen, Germany, October 4-6, 2006 14948, German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA).
    4. Griffiths, William E. & Newton, Lisa S. & O'Donnell, Christopher J., 2010. "Predictive densities for models with stochastic regressors and inequality constraints: Forecasting local-area wheat yield," International Journal of Forecasting, Elsevier, vol. 26(2), pages 397-412, April.
    5. N'Guessan, Yapo G. & Featherstone, Allen M. & Cader, Hanas A., 2005. "Choice of the Empirical Definition of Zero in the Translog Multiproduct Cost Functional Form," 2006 Annual Meeting, February 5-8, 2006, Orlando, Florida 35369, Southern Agricultural Economics Association.
    6. O'Donnell, Christopher J., 2000. "Estimating The Characteristics Of Homogeneous Functionsusing Flexible Functional Forms," 2000 Conference (44th), January 23-25, 2000, Sydney, Australia 123713, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    7. Ishdorj, Ariun, 2008. "Essays on food assistance program participation and demand for food," ISU General Staff Papers 2008010108000016750, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    8. Wolff, Hendrik & Heckelei, Thomas & Mittelhammer, Ronald C., 2004. "Imposing Monotonicity And Curvature On Flexible Functional Forms," 2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO 20256, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    9. A. Onofri & L. Fulginiti, 2008. "Rejoinder," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 30(1), pages 81-85, August.
    10. J. Hirschberg & J. Lye & D.J. Slottje, 2005. "Alernative Forms for Restricted Regressions," Department of Economics - Working Papers Series 954, The University of Melbourne.
    11. Guohua Feng & Jiti Gao & Bin Peng & Xiaohui Zhang, 2015. "A Varying-Coefficient Panel Data Model with Fixed Effects: Theory and an Application to U.S. Commercial Banks," Monash Econometrics and Business Statistics Working Papers 9/15, Monash University, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics.
    12. Orea, Luis, 2019. "The Econometric Measurement of Firms’ Efficiency," Efficiency Series Papers 2019/02, University of Oviedo, Department of Economics, Oviedo Efficiency Group (OEG).
    13. Alejandro Onofri & Lilyan Fulginiti, 2008. "Public inputs and dynamic producer behavior: endogenous growth in U.S. agriculture," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 30(1), pages 13-28, August.
    14. Tiberti, M., 2013. "Production costs of Soft Wheat in Italy," 2013 Second Congress, June 6-7, 2013, Parma, Italy 149898, Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA).
    15. Guy Chapda Nana & Bruno Larue, 2012. "Imposing Curvature Conditions on Flexible Functional Forms for GNP Functions," Cahiers de recherche CREATE 2012-5, CREATE.
    16. Griffiths, W.E., 2001. "Bayesian Inference in the Seemingly Unrelated Regressions Models," Department of Economics - Working Papers Series 793, The University of Melbourne.
    17. Isakin, Maksim & Serletis, Apostolos, 2019. "Banking technology in a Markov switching economy," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 154-168.
    18. Dong, Fengxia & Marsh, Thomas L. & Stiegert, Kyle W., 2005. "State Trading Enterprises in a Differentiated Product Environment: The Case of Global Malting Barley Markets," Working Papers 201543, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Food System Research Group.
    19. W.E. Griffiths & Ma. Rebecca Valenzuela, 2004. "Gibbs Samplers for a Set of Seemingly Unrelated Regressions," Department of Economics - Working Papers Series 912, The University of Melbourne.
    20. Chapda Nana, Guy & Larue, Bruno, 2012. "Imposing Curvature Conditions on Flexible Functional Forms to GNP Functions," Working Papers 123308, University of Laval, Center for Research on the Economics of the Environment, Agri-food, Transports and Energy (CREATE).
    21. O'Donnell, Christopher J. & Griffith, Garry R. & Nightingale, John J. & Piggott, Roley R., 2003. "Testing for Market Power in the Australian Grains and Oilseeds Industries: Further Results," 2003 Conference (47th), February 12-14, 2003, Fremantle, Australia 57930, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    22. Sauer, J., 2007. "Monotonicity and Curvature – A Bootstrapping Approach," Proceedings “Schriften der Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaues e.V.”, German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA), vol. 42, March.
    23. Ishdorj, Ariun & Jensen, Helen H., 2010. "Demand For Breakfast Cereals: Whole Grains Guidance And Food Choice," 115th Joint EAAE/AAEA Seminar, September 15-17, 2010, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany 116445, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    24. David Tomberlin & Garth Holloway, 2007. "Trip-Level Analysis of Efficiency Changes in Oregon’s Deepwater Trawl Fishery," Working Papers 2007.86, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
    25. Tai-Hsin Huang & Nan-Hung Liu & Subal C. Kumbhakar, 2018. "Joint estimation of the Lerner index and cost efficiency using copula methods," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 54(2), pages 799-822, March.
    26. Alejandro Onofri & Lilyan E. Fulginiti, 2005. "Public Inputs and Productivty in the Agricultural Sector: A Dynamic Dual Approach," Others 0502011, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    27. O'Donnell, Christopher J. & Coelli, Timothy J., 2005. "A Bayesian approach to imposing curvature on distance functions," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 126(2), pages 493-523, June.
    28. Hendrik Wolff & Thomas Heckelei & Ron C. Mittelhammer, 2004. "Imposing Curvature and Monotonicity on Flexible Functional Forms: An Efficient Regional Approach," Econometric Society 2004 North American Summer Meetings 450, Econometric Society.
    29. Marsh, Thomas L. & Featherstone, Allen M., 2003. "Inverse Demand Relationships For Wheat Food Use By Class," 2003 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada 22001, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    30. Feng, Guohua & Serletis, Apostolos, 2008. "Productivity trends in U.S. manufacturing: Evidence from the NQ and AIM cost functions," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 142(1), pages 281-311, January.
    31. Humberto Brea-Solis & Sergio Perelman & David Saal, 2017. "Regulatory incentives to water losses reduction: the case of England and Wales," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 47(3), pages 259-276, June.
    32. Ha Thu Vu & Sean Turnell, 2010. "Cost Efficiency of the Banking Sector in Vietnam: A Bayesian Stochastic Frontier Approach with Regularity Constraints," Asian Economic Journal, East Asian Economic Association, vol. 24(2), pages 115-139, June.
    33. Mulik, Kranti & Featherstone, Allen M. & Marsh, Thomas L., 2003. "Imposing Curvature Restrictions On A Translog Cost Function Using A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulation Approach," 2003 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada 22038, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    34. Marsh, Thomas L., 2003. "Elasticities for U.S. Wheat Food Use by Class," 2003 Conference (47th), February 12-14, 2003, Fremantle, Australia 57920, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    35. Sansi Yang & C. Richard Shumway, 2020. "Knowledge accumulation in US agriculture: research and learning by doing," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 54(2), pages 87-105, December.
    36. Wimmer, Stefan G. & Sauer, Johannes, 2017. "The Economic Benefits of Farm Diversification: An Empirical Analysis of Economies of Scope Using the Dual Approach," 2017 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 1, Chicago, Illinois 258465, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

Articles

  1. Kerstens, Kristiaan & O’Donnell, Christopher & Van de Woestyne, Ignace, 2019. "Metatechnology frontier and convexity: A restatement," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 275(2), pages 780-792.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Eric Njuki & Boris E Bravo-Ureta & Christopher J O’Donnell, 2018. "A new look at the decomposition of agricultural productivity growth incorporating weather effects," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(2), pages 1-21, February.

    Cited by:

    1. Wongpiyabovorn, Oranuch & Plastina, Alejandro & Crespi, John, 2022. "US Agriculture as a Carbon Sink: From International Agreements to Farm Incentives," ISU General Staff Papers 202202161950500000, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    2. Owusu, Eric S. & Bravo-Ureta, Boris E., 2022. "Reap when you sow? The productivity impacts of early sowing in Malawi," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 199(C).
    3. Viktoriya Galushko & Samuel Gamtessa, 2022. "Impact of Climate Change on Productivity and Technical Efficiency in Canadian Crop Production," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(7), pages 1-21, April.
    4. Eric Njuki & Boris E. Bravo-Ureta & Christopher J. O’Donnell, 2019. "Decomposing agricultural productivity growth using a random-parameters stochastic production frontier," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 57(3), pages 839-860, September.
    5. Stefan Wimmer & Johannes Sauer, 2020. "Profitability Development and Resource Reallocation: The Case of Sugar Beet Farming in Germany," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 71(3), pages 816-837, September.
    6. K Hervé Hervé Dakpo & Laure Latruffe & Yann Desjeux & Philippe Jeanneaux, 2021. "Latent Class Modelling for a Robust Assessment of Productivity: Application to French Grazing Livestock Farms [Modélisation des classes latentes pour une évaluation robuste de la productivité : App," Post-Print hal-03280138, HAL.
    7. Antonio Peyrache & Maria C. A. Silva, 2021. "Multi-Level Parallel Production Networks," CEPA Working Papers Series WP052021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    8. Fenghua Wen & Donghan Lyu & Daohan Huang, 2023. "Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of Total Factor Productivity of Grain in the Yangtze River Delta, China," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(8), pages 1-17, July.
    9. Plastina, Alejandro & Lence, Sergio H. & Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel, 2019. "How Weather Affects the Decomposition of Total Factor Productivity in U.S. Agriculture," ISU General Staff Papers 201911120800001087, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    10. Robert G. Chambers & Simone Pieralli, 2020. "The Sources of Measured US Agricultural Productivity Growth: Weather, Technological Change, and Adaptation," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 102(4), pages 1198-1226, August.
    11. Zoltán Bakucs & Imre Fertő & Enikő Vígh, 2020. "Crop Productivity and Climatic Conditions: Evidence from Hungary," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-12, September.
    12. Owusu, Eric S. & Bravo-Ureta, Boris E., 2020. "Farm-level Innovation and Productivity: Evidence from Groundnut Farming in Malawi," 2020 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, Kansas City, Missouri 304243, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    13. Wang, Sun Ling & Rada, Nicholas E. & Williams, Ryan C., 2021. "Potential Climatic Effects on the U.S. Crop Farm Productivity," 2021 Annual Meeting, August 1-3, Austin, Texas 314088, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    14. Chancellor, Will & Hughes, Neal & Zhao, Shiji & Soh, Wei Ying & Valle, Haydn & Boult, Christopher, 2021. "Controlling for the effects of climate on total factor productivity: A case study of Australian farms," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 102(C).
    15. Trindade, Federico J. & Fulginiti, Lilyan E. & Perrin, Richard K., 2020. "A half century of yield growth along the forty-first parallel of the Great Plains: factor intensification, irrigation, weather, and technical change," Staff Papers 305568, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics.
    16. S. C. West & A. W. Mugera & R. S. Kingwell, 2022. "The choice of efficiency benchmarking metric in evaluating firm productivity and viability," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 57(2), pages 193-211, April.
    17. Tao Xiang & Tariq H. Malik & Jack W. Hou & Jiliang Ma, 2022. "The Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Total Factor Productivity: A Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis, 1961–2013," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 12(12), pages 1-20, December.
    18. C. J. O’Donnell, 2021. "Estimating the Effects of Weather and Climate Change on Agricultural Productivity," CEPA Working Papers Series WP032021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    19. Li Chen & Bin Jiang & Chuan Wang, 2023. "Climate change and urban total factor productivity: evidence from capital cities and municipalities in China," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 65(1), pages 401-441, July.
    20. Denitsa Angelova & Jan Käbel, 2019. "Weather Volatility and Production Efficiency," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(24), pages 1-12, December.
    21. Kumbhakar, Subal C. & Li, Mingyang & Lien, Gudbrand, 2023. "Do subsidies matter in productivity and profitability changes?," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 123(C).

  3. C. J. O’Donnell & Saeideh Fallah-Fini & Konstantinos Triantis, 2017. "Measuring and analysing productivity change in a metafrontier framework," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 47(2), pages 117-128, April.

    Cited by:

    1. John B. Walden & Min‐Yang Lee & Christopher J. O'Donnell, 2022. "Profits, prices and productivity in a common pool fishery," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 104(4), pages 1540-1560, August.
    2. Qianying Jin & Kristiaan Kerstens & Ignace van de Woestyne, 2020. "Metafrontier productivity indices: Questioning the common convexification strategy," Post-Print hal-02496997, HAL.
    3. María Molinos-Senante & Simon Porcher & Alexandros Maziotis, 2018. "Productivity change and its drivers for the Chilean water companies: A comparison of full private and concessionary companies," Post-Print hal-02145824, HAL.
    4. Badunenko, Oleg & D’Inverno, Giovanna & De Witte, Kristof, 2023. "On distinguishing the direct causal effect of an intervention from its efficiency-enhancing effects," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 310(1), pages 432-447.
    5. Chin‐wei Huang & Hsiao‐Yin Chen, 2023. "Using nonradial metafrontier data envelopment analysis to evaluate the metatechnology and metafactor ratios for the Taiwanese hotel industry," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 44(4), pages 1904-1919, June.
    6. Jayanath Ananda & Dong-hyun Oh, 2023. "Assessing environmentally sensitive productivity growth: incorporating externalities and heterogeneity into water sector evaluations," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 59(1), pages 45-60, February.
    7. Kristiaan Kerstens & Christopher O’donnell & Ignace van de Woestyne, 2019. "Metatechnology frontier and convexity: A restatement," Post-Print hal-02108502, HAL.
    8. D’Inverno, Giovanna & Smet, Mike & De Witte, Kristof, 2021. "Impact evaluation in a multi-input multi-output setting: Evidence on the effect of additional resources for schools," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 290(3), pages 1111-1124.
    9. Ali Homayoni & Reza Fallahnejad & Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi, 2022. "Cross Malmquist Productivity Index in Data Envelopment Analysis," 4OR, Springer, vol. 20(4), pages 567-602, December.
    10. Qunwei Wang & Ye Hang & Jin‐Li Hu & Ching‐Ren Chiu, 2018. "An alternative metafrontier framework for measuring the heterogeneity of technology," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 65(5), pages 427-445, August.
    11. Fan, Jing-Li & Zhang, Hao & Zhang, Xian, 2020. "Unified efficiency measurement of coal-fired power plants in China considering group heterogeneity and technological gaps," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    12. Bart Roets & Marijn Verschelde & Johan Christiaens, 2018. "Multi-output efficiency and operational safety: An analysis of railway traffic control centre performance," Post-Print hal-01914849, HAL.
    13. Molinos-Senante, María & Sala-Garrido, Ramón, 2018. "Evaluation of energy performance of drinking water treatment plants: Use of energy intensity and energy efficiency metrics," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 229(C), pages 1095-1102.
    14. Arora, Nitin & Talwar, Shubhendra Jit, 2020. "Modelling efficiency in budget allocations for Indian states using window based non-radial non-concave metafrontier data envelopment analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 70(C).
    15. Tai-Hsin Huang & Yi-Chun Lin & Kuo-Jui Huang & Yu-Wei Liao, 2022. "Comparing Cost Efficiency Between Financial and Non-financial Holding Banks and Insurers in Taiwan Under the Framework of Copula Methods and Metafrontier," Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, Springer;Japanese Association of Financial Economics and Engineering, vol. 29(4), pages 735-766, December.

  4. Christine Amsler & Christopher J. O’Donnell & Peter Schmidt, 2017. "Stochastic metafrontiers," Econometric Reviews, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(6-9), pages 1007-1020, October.

    Cited by:

    1. Walheer, Barnabé, 2018. "Aggregation of metafrontier technology gap ratios: the case of European sectors in 1995–2015," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 269(3), pages 1013-1026.
    2. Owusu, Eric S. & Bravo-Ureta, Boris E., 2022. "Reap when you sow? The productivity impacts of early sowing in Malawi," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 199(C).
    3. Neubauer, Florian & Songsermsawas, Tisorn & Kámiche-Zegarra, Joanna & Bravo-Ureta, Boris E., 2022. "Technical efficiency and technological gaps correcting for selectivity bias: Insights from a value chain project in Nepal," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 112(C).
    4. Núñez, F. & Arcos-Vargas, A. & Villa, G., 2020. "Efficiency benchmarking and remuneration of Spanish electricity distribution companies," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 67(C).
    5. Walheer, Barnabé & He, Ming, 2020. "Technical efficiency and technology gap of the manufacturing industry in China: Does firm ownership matter?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 127(C).
    6. Kristiaan Kerstens & Christopher O’donnell & Ignace van de Woestyne, 2019. "Metatechnology frontier and convexity: A restatement," Post-Print hal-02108502, HAL.
    7. Tsionas, Mike G., 2023. "Clustering and meta-envelopment in data envelopment analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 304(2), pages 763-778.
    8. Walheer, Barnabé, 2023. "Meta-frontier and technology switchers: A nonparametric approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 305(1), pages 463-474.
    9. Tsionas, Mike G., 2020. "On a model of environmental performance and technology gaps," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 285(3), pages 1141-1152.

  5. O’Donnell, C.J., 2016. "Using information about technologies, markets and firm behaviour to decompose a proper productivity index," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 190(2), pages 328-340.

    Cited by:

    1. Van, Huong Vu & Van Dao, Le & Hoang, Lich Khac & Van Hien, Ngo, 2023. "The efficiency of government finanical expenditures before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-country investigation," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 54(C).
    2. K Hervé Hervé Dakpo & Laure Latruffe & Yann Desjeux & Philippe Jeanneaux, 2021. "Latent Class Modelling for a Robust Assessment of Productivity: Application to French Grazing Livestock Farms [Modélisation des classes latentes pour une évaluation robuste de la productivité : App," Post-Print hal-03280138, HAL.
    3. Diewert, W. Erwin & Fox, Kevin J., 2017. "Decomposing productivity indexes into explanatory factors," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 256(1), pages 275-291.

  6. Laurenceson, James & O'Donnell, Christopher, 2014. "New estimates and a decomposition of provincial productivity change in China," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 30(C), pages 86-97.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  7. C. O’Donnell, 2014. "Econometric estimation of distance functions and associated measures of productivity and efficiency change," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 41(2), pages 187-200, April.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  8. C. O’Donnell & K. Nguyen, 2013. "An econometric approach to estimating support prices and measures of productivity change in public hospitals," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 40(3), pages 323-335, December.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  9. C. O’Donnell, 2012. "An aggregate quantity framework for measuring and decomposing productivity change," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 38(3), pages 255-272, December.

    Cited by:

    1. Vu, Quang & Tran, Tuyen Quang, 2021. "Government financial support and firm productivity in vietnam," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 40(C).
    2. Liu, Hongwei & Wu, Jie & Chu, Junfei, 2019. "Environmental efficiency and technological progress of transportation industry-based on large scale data," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 144(C), pages 475-482.
    3. Grifell-Tatjé, E. & Lovell, C.A.K., 2021. "Dual productivity analysis: A Konüs/Shephard approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 289(1), pages 328-337.
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    431. Shallu Arora & Meena Sharma & A. K. Vashisht, 2017. "Impact of managerial ability and firm-specific variables on insider’s abnormal returns," DECISION: Official Journal of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Springer;Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, vol. 44(4), pages 275-286, December.
    432. Missiame, Arnold & Irungu, Patrick & Nyikal, Rose Adhiambo, 2021. "Gender-differentiated stochastic meta-frontier analysis of production technology heterogeneity among smallholder cassava farmers in Ghana," African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, African Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 16(2), June.
    433. Lee, Chi-Chuan & Huang, Tai-Hsin, 2017. "Cost efficiency and technological gap in Western European banks: A stochastic metafrontier analysis," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 48(C), pages 161-178.
    434. Ahmad, Shabbir & Steen, John & Ali, Saleem & Valenta, Rick, 2023. "Carbon-adjusted efficiency and technology gaps in gold mining," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    435. Na Wang & Yongrok Choi, 2019. "Comparative Analysis of the Energy and CO 2 Emissions Performance and Technology Gaps in the Agglomerated Cities of China and South Korea," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(2), pages 1-25, January.
    436. Ding, Tao & Yang, Jie & Wu, Huaqing & Liang, Liang, 2022. "Land use efficiency and technology gaps of urban agglomerations in China: An extended non-radial meta-frontier approach," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 79(C).
    437. Jianhuan Huang & Yantuan Yu & Chunbo Ma, 2018. "Energy Efficiency Convergence in China: Catch-Up, Lock-In and Regulatory Uniformity," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 70(1), pages 107-130, May.
    438. Safiullah, Md & Shamsuddin, Abul, 2019. "Risk-adjusted efficiency and corporate governance: Evidence from Islamic and conventional banks," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 105-140.
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    440. Ayobami Adetoyinbo & Verena Otter, 2022. "Can producer groups improve technical efficiency among artisanal shrimpers in Nigeria? A study accounting for observed and unobserved selectivity," Agricultural and Food Economics, Springer;Italian Society of Agricultural Economics (SIDEA), vol. 10(1), pages 1-33, December.
    441. Huang, Tai-Hsin & Chiang, Dien-Lin & Tsai, Chao-Min, 2015. "Applying the New Metafrontier Directional Distance Function to Compare Banking Efficiencies in Central and Eastern European Countries," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 44(C), pages 188-199.
    442. Yantuan Yu & Jianhuan Huang & Yanmin Shao, 2019. "The Sustainability Performance of Chinese Banks: A New Network Data Envelopment Analysis Approach and Panel Regression," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(6), pages 1-25, March.
    443. Ancev, Tiho & Azad, Samad Md., 2015. "Environmentally Adjusted Productivity and Efficiency Measurement: A New Direction for the Luenberger Productivity Indicator," 2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California 204912, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    444. Yung-Hsiang LU & Shun-Ching WANG & Chih-Hung YUAN, 2017. "Financial crisis and the relative productivity dynamics of the biotechnology industry: Evidence from the Asia-Pacific countries," Agricultural Economics, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 63(2), pages 65-79.
    445. K Hervé Dakpo & Yann Desjeux & Philippe Jeanneaux & Laure Latruffe, 2017. "Productivity, technical efficiency and technological change in French agriculture during 2002-2014: A Färe-Primont index decomposition," Working Papers SMART 17-07, INRAE UMR SMART.
    446. Jia-Ching Juo & Yu-Hui Lin & Tsai-Chia Chen, 2015. "Productivity change of Taiwanese farmers’ credit unions: a nonparametric metafrontier Malmquist–Luenberger productivity indicator," Central European Journal of Operations Research, Springer;Slovak Society for Operations Research;Hungarian Operational Research Society;Czech Society for Operations Research;Österr. Gesellschaft für Operations Research (ÖGOR);Slovenian Society Informatika - Section for Operational Research;Croatian Operational Research Society, vol. 23(1), pages 125-147, March.
    447. Fang-Rong Ren & Ze Tian & Yu-Ting Shen & Yung-Ho Chiu & Tai-Yu Lin, 2019. "Energy, CO 2 , and AQI Efficiency and Improvement of the Yangtze River Economic Belt," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(4), pages 1-17, February.
    448. Xiao-Ning Li & Ying Feng & Pei-Ying Wu & Yung-Ho Chiu, 2021. "An Analysis of Environmental Efficiency and Environmental Pollution Treatment Efficiency in China’s Industrial Sector," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(5), pages 1-25, February.
    449. Kyoungsun Lee & Yuri Park & Daeho Lee, 2016. "Effect of the ICT Ecosystem Structure on the Sustainable Growth of ICT Firms: A Metafrontier Analysis on China, South Korea, the United States, and Japan," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 8(5), pages 1-9, May.
    450. Huang, Tai-Hsin & Chiang, Dien-Lin & Chao, Shih-Wei, 2017. "A new approach to jointly estimating the Lerner index and cost efficiency for multi-output banks under a stochastic meta-frontier framework," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 212-226.
    451. Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat & Wang, Xiaobing, 2007. "Recent evidence on agricultural efficiency and productivity in China: a metafrontier approach [Neue Anhaltspunkte für Effizienz und Produktivität in der chinesischen Agrarproduktion: Eine Metafront," IAMO Discussion Papers 104, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO).
    452. Cheng, Zhonghua & Li, Lianshui & Liu, Jun & Zhang, Huiming, 2018. "Total-factor carbon emission efficiency of China's provincial industrial sector and its dynamic evolution," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 94(C), pages 330-339.
    453. lo Storto, Corrado, 2018. "Ownership structure and the technical, cost, and revenue efficiency of Italian airports," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 50(C), pages 175-193.
    454. Watto, Muhammad Arif & Mugera, Amin William, 2013. "Measuring Groundwater Irrigation Efficiency in Pakistan: A DEA Approach Using the Sub-vector and Slack-based Models," Working Papers 144943, University of Western Australia, School of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
    455. Kuan-Chen Chen & Hong-Ming Chen & Li-Nien Chien & Ming-Miin Yu, 2019. "Productivity growth and quality changes of hospitals in Taiwan: does ownership matter?," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 22(3), pages 451-461, September.
    456. Tiedemann, Torben & Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe, 2011. "Empirische Analysen zur Produktivitätsentwicklung im ökologischen und konventionellen Landbau," German Journal of Agricultural Economics, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Department for Agricultural Economics, vol. 60(02), pages 1-18, May.
    457. Khanal, Uttam & Wilson, Clevo & Shankar, Sriram & Hoang, Viet-Ngu & Lee, Boon, 2018. "Farm performance analysis: Technical efficiencies and technology gaps of Nepalese farmers in different agro-ecological regions," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 645-653.
    458. Kounetas, Konstantinos & Zervopoulos, Panagiotis D., 2019. "A cross-country evaluation of environmental performance: Is there a convergence-divergence pattern in technology gaps?," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 273(3), pages 1136-1148.
    459. Sahoo, Biresh K. & Singh, Ramadhar & Mishra, Bineet & Sankaran, Krithiga, 2017. "Research productivity in management schools of India during 1968-2015: A directional benefit-of-doubt model analysis," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 66(PA), pages 118-139.
    460. Chiu, Yung-ho & Luo, Zhengying & Chen, Yu-Chuan & Wang, Zebin & Tsai, Min-Pei, 2013. "A comparison of operating performance management between Taiwan banks and foreign banks based on the Meta-Hybrid DEA model," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 33(C), pages 433-439.
    461. Fang, Guozhu & Zhang, Xiaoheng & Qi, Chunjie, 2021. "Are Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems More Technical Efficiency? Evidence from Small Farmers in China," 2021 Conference, August 17-31, 2021, Virtual 315129, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    462. Latruffe, Laure & Bravo-Ureta, Boris E. & Moreira, Victor H. & Desjeux, Yann & Dupraz, Pierre, 2012. "Productivity and Subsidies in the European Union: An Analysis for Dairy Farms Using Input Distance Frontiers," 2012 Conference, August 18-24, 2012, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil 126846, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    463. Jose-Luis Zafra-Gómez & Germán López-Pérez & Marta Garrido-Montañés & Elisabeth Zafra-Gómez, 2023. "Cost Efficiency in Municipal Solid Waste (MSW): Different Alternatives in Service Delivery for Small and Medium Sized Spanish Local Governments," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(7), pages 1-14, April.
    464. Phuc Trong Ho & Pham Xuan Hung & Nguyen Duc Tien, 2023. "Effects of varieties and seasons on cost efficiency in rice farming: A stochastic metafrontier approach," Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 13(2), pages 120-129.
    465. Pérez-Cárceles, María Concepción & Gómez-García, Juan & Gómez Gallego, Juan Cándido, 2019. "Goodness of governance effect on European banking efficiency," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 29-40.
    466. Tao Xu & Jianxin You & Yilei Shao, 2020. "Efficiency of China’s Listed Securities Companies: Estimation through a DEA-Based Method," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 8(4), pages 1-16, April.
    467. Yue Xu & Zebin Wang & Yung-Ho Chiu & Fangrong Ren, 2020. "Research on energy-saving and emissions reduction efficiency in Chinese thermal power companies," Energy & Environment, , vol. 31(5), pages 903-919, August.
    468. Chellattan Veettil, Prakashan & Krishna, Vijesh V. & Qaim, Matin, 2014. "Bt Cotton and Ecosystem Impacts of Pesticide Reductions," GlobalFood Discussion Papers 180977, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, GlobalFood, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development.
    469. Wang, H. & Zhou, P. & Wang, Qunwei, 2016. "Constructing slacks-based composite indicator of sustainable energy development for China: A meta-frontier nonparametric approach," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 101(C), pages 218-228.
    470. Shamohammadi, Mehdi & Oh, Dong-hyun, 2019. "Measuring the efficiency changes of private universities of Korea: A two-stage network data envelopment analysis," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 148(C).
    471. Yu, Yantuan & Huang, Jianhuan & Zhang, Ning, 2019. "Modeling the eco-efficiency of Chinese prefecture-level cities with regional heterogeneities: A comparative perspective," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 402(C), pages 1-17.
    472. Afsharian, Mohsen & Podinovski, Victor V., 2018. "A linear programming approach to efficiency evaluation in nonconvex metatechnologies," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 268(1), pages 268-280.

  22. Hutasuhut, Maradoli & Chang, Hui-Shung & Griffith, Garry & O’Donnell, Chris & Doran, Howard, 2002. "The Demand for Beef in Indonesia: Implications for Australian Agribusiness," Australasian Agribusiness Review, University of Melbourne, Department of Agriculture and Food Systems, vol. 10, pages 1-10, August.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  23. Cj O'Donnell & G Van Der Westhuizen, 2002. "Regional Comparisons of Banking Performance in South Africa*1," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 70(3), pages 224-240, March.

    Cited by:

    1. Gerhardus Van Der Westhuizen, 2012. "Estimating Productivity Change in South African Banks: Decomposing Productity Index Numbers," Ekonomia, Cyprus Economic Society and University of Cyprus, vol. 13(2-1), pages 65-86, Winter-Su.
    2. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2007. "Estimation and inference in two-stage, semi-parametric models of production processes," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 136(1), pages 31-64, January.
    3. Ahmed, Elsadig Musa & Krishnasamy, Geeta, 2013. "Are Asian technology gaps due to human capital quality differences?," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 35(C), pages 51-58.
    4. Barros, C.P. & Emrouznejad, Ali, 2016. "Assessing productive efficiency of banks using integrated Fuzzy-DEA and bootstrapping: A case of Mozambican banksAuthor-Name: Wanke, Peter," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 249(1), pages 378-389.
    5. Stephanie McWhinnie & Kofi Otumawu-Apreku, 2013. "Profit Efficiency of the South Australian Rock Lobster Fishery: Nerlovian and Directional Distance Function Approach," School of Economics and Public Policy Working Papers 2013-13, University of Adelaide, School of Economics and Public Policy.
    6. Stephanie McWhinnie & Kofi Otumawu-Apreku, 2013. "Evaluating Profit Efficiency of the South Australian Rock Lobster Fishery: Nerlovian and Directional Distance Function Approach," School of Economics and Public Policy Working Papers 2013-18, University of Adelaide, School of Economics and Public Policy.
    7. James Laurenceson & Zhao Yong, "undated". "Efficiency Amongst China’s Banks:A DEA Analysis Five Years after WTO Entry," EAERG Discussion Paper Series 1605, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    8. Emili Tortosa Ausina & Diego Prior Jiménez & María Teresa Balaguer-Coll, 2010. "Output complexity, environmental conditions, and the efficiency of municipalities: a robust metafrontier approach," Working Papers. Serie EC 2010-02, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
    9. du Toit, Elda & Cuba, Yolanda Z., 2018. "Cost and profit efficiency of listed South African banks pre and post the financial crisis," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 435-445.

  24. Christopher J. O'Donnell & Alicia N. Rambaldi & Howard E. Doran, 2001. "Estimating economic relationships subject to firm- and time-varying equality and inequality constraints," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 16(6), pages 709-726.

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    1. Caroline Khan & Mike G. Tsionas, 2021. "Constraints in models of production and cost via slack-based measures," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 61(6), pages 3347-3374, December.
    2. Wolff, Hendrik & Heckelei, Thomas & Mittelhammer, Ronald C., 2004. "Imposing Monotonicity And Curvature On Flexible Functional Forms," 2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO 20256, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    3. Kai Sun & Ruhul Salim, 2020. "A semiparametric stochastic input distance frontier model with application to the Indonesian banking industry," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 54(2), pages 139-156, December.
    4. Dong, Fengxia & Marsh, Thomas L. & Stiegert, Kyle W., 2005. "State Trading Enterprises in a Differentiated Product Environment: The Case of Global Malting Barley Markets," Working Papers 201543, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Food System Research Group.
    5. Mike Tsionas & Christopher F. Parmeter & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Bridging the Divide? Bayesian Artificial Neural Networks for Frontier Efficiency Analysis," CEPA Working Papers Series WP082021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    6. Hendrik Wolff & Thomas Heckelei & Ron C. Mittelhammer, 2004. "Imposing Curvature and Monotonicity on Flexible Functional Forms: An Efficient Regional Approach," Econometric Society 2004 North American Summer Meetings 450, Econometric Society.
    7. Christopher Parmeter & Kai Sun & Daniel Henderson & Subal Kumbhakar, 2014. "Estimation and inference under economic restrictions," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 41(1), pages 111-129, February.
    8. O'Donnell, Christopher J., 2006. "Some Econometric Options For Dealing With Unknown Functional Form," 2006 Conference (50th), February 8-10, 2006, Sydney, Australia 137787, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.

  25. C. L Chua & W. E. Griffiths & C. J O'Donnell, 2001. "Bayesian Model Averaging in Consumer Demand Systems with Inequality Constraints," Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society/Societe canadienne d'agroeconomie, vol. 49(3), pages 269-291, November.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  26. Griffiths, William E. & O'Donnell, Christopher J. & Cruz, Agustina Tan, 2000. "Imposing regularity conditions on a system of cost and factor share equations," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 44(1), pages 1-21.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  27. Christopher J. O'Donnell & C. Richard Shumway & V. Eldon Ball, 1999. "Input Demands and Inefficiency in U.S. Agriculture," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 81(4), pages 865-880.

    Cited by:

    1. Christopher J. O'Donnell & Alicia N. Rambaldi & Howard E. Doran, 2001. "Estimating economic relationships subject to firm- and time-varying equality and inequality constraints," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 16(6), pages 709-726.
    2. Tocco,Barbara & Bailey, Alastair & Davidova, Sophia, 2013. "The Theoretical Framework and Methodology to Estimate the Farm Labour and Other Factor-Derived Demand and Output Supply Systems," Factor Markets Working Papers 156, Centre for European Policy Studies.
    3. Andersen, Matthew A. & Alston, Julian M. & Pardey, Philip G., 2010. "Capital Services in U.S. Agriculture: Concepts, Comparisons, and the Treatment of Interest Rates," Staff Papers 92801, University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics.
    4. O'Donnell, Christopher J., 2000. "Estimating The Characteristics Of Homogeneous Functionsusing Flexible Functional Forms," 2000 Conference (44th), January 23-25, 2000, Sydney, Australia 123713, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    5. Coleman, Jane A. & Shaik, Saleem, 2009. "Time-Varying Estimation of Crop Insurance Program in Altering North Dakota Farm Economic Structure," 2009 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, 2009, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 49516, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    6. Wolff, Hendrik & Heckelei, Thomas & Mittelhammer, Ronald C., 2004. "Imposing Monotonicity And Curvature On Flexible Functional Forms," 2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO 20256, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    7. A. Onofri & L. Fulginiti, 2008. "Rejoinder," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 30(1), pages 81-85, August.
    8. Millimet, Daniel L. & Tchernis, Rusty, 2008. "Estimating high-dimensional demand systems in the presence of many binding non-negativity constraints," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 147(2), pages 384-395, December.
    9. Dr Alicia Rambaldi & Dr Chris O'Donnell & Howard E.Doran, 2003. "Imposing Observation-Varying Equality Constraints Using Generalised Restricted Least Squares," Discussion Papers Series 323, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    10. Andersen, Matthew A. & Alston, Julian M. & Pardey, Philip G., 2009. "Capital Service Flows: Concepts and Comparisons of Alternative Measures in U.S. Agriculture," Staff Papers 50098, University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics.
    11. Alejandro Onofri & Lilyan Fulginiti, 2008. "Public inputs and dynamic producer behavior: endogenous growth in U.S. agriculture," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 30(1), pages 13-28, August.
    12. Plastina, Alejandro & Lence, Sergio H. & Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel, 2019. "How Weather Affects the Decomposition of Total Factor Productivity in U.S. Agriculture," ISU General Staff Papers 201911120800001087, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    13. Plastina, Alejandro S. & Fulginiti, Lilyan E., 2006. "The Effects of Public R&D on U.S. Agriculture: A State-Level Analysis," 2006 Annual meeting, July 23-26, Long Beach, CA 21226, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    14. Alejandro Onofri & Lilyan E. Fulginiti, 2005. "Public Inputs and Productivty in the Agricultural Sector: A Dynamic Dual Approach," Others 0502011, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    15. O'Donnell, Christopher J. & Coelli, Timothy J., 2005. "A Bayesian approach to imposing curvature on distance functions," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 126(2), pages 493-523, June.
    16. Hendrik Wolff & Thomas Heckelei & Ron C. Mittelhammer, 2004. "Imposing Curvature and Monotonicity on Flexible Functional Forms: An Efficient Regional Approach," Econometric Society 2004 North American Summer Meetings 450, Econometric Society.
    17. Hilmer, Christiana E. & Holt, Matthew T., 2000. "A Comparison Of Resampling Techniques When Parameters Are On A Boundary: The Bootstrap, Subsample Bootstrap, And Subsample Jackknife," 2000 Annual meeting, July 30-August 2, Tampa, FL 21810, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    18. Conradie, Beatrice, 2005. "Wages and wage elasticities for wine and table grapes in South Africa," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 44(1), pages 1-19, March.

  28. C.J. O'Donnell & A. D. Woodland, 1995. "Estimation of Australian Wool and Lamb Production Technologies under Uncertainty: An Error-Components Approach," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 77(3), pages 552-565.

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    1. Verikios, George, 2005. "A Model of the World Wool Market," 2005 Conference (49th), February 9-11, 2005, Coff's Harbour, Australia 139293, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    2. O'Donnell, Christopher J., 2000. "Estimating The Characteristics Of Homogeneous Functionsusing Flexible Functional Forms," 2000 Conference (44th), January 23-25, 2000, Sydney, Australia 123713, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    3. Verikios, George, 2009. "Modelling the world wool market: A hybrid approach," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 26(2), pages 418-431, March.
    4. Griffiths, William E. & O'Donnell, Christopher J. & Cruz, Agustina Tan, 2000. "Imposing regularity conditions on a system of cost and factor share equations," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 44(1), pages 1-21.
    5. Labrecciosa Paola & Colombo Luca, 2010. "Technology Uncertainty and Market Collusion," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 10(1), pages 1-17, March.
    6. Just, Richard E., 2003. "Risk research in agricultural economics: opportunities and challenges for the next twenty-five years," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 75(2-3), pages 123-159.

Chapters

  1. Christopher J. O’Donnell, 2016. "Nonparametric Estimates of the Components of Productivity and Profitability Change in U.S. Agriculture," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: Joe Zhu (ed.), Data Envelopment Analysis, chapter 0, pages 515-541, Springer.
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Books

  1. Christopher J. O'Donnell, 2018. "Productivity and Efficiency Analysis," Springer Books, Springer, number 978-981-13-2984-5, November.

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    1. Van, Huong Vu & Van Dao, Le & Hoang, Lich Khac & Van Hien, Ngo, 2023. "The efficiency of government finanical expenditures before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-country investigation," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 54(C).
    2. Tateishi, Henrique Ryosuke & Bragagnolo, Cassiano & de Faria, Rosane Nunes, 2020. "Economic and environmental efficiencies of greenhouse gases’ emissions under institutional influence," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 161(C).
    3. Owusu, Eric S. & Bravo-Ureta, Boris E., 2022. "Reap when you sow? The productivity impacts of early sowing in Malawi," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 199(C).
    4. Minh, Thanh Nguyen & Quang, Tuyen Tran, 2022. "The effects of corporate social responsibility on firm efficiency: Inside the matrix of corporate finance," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 46(PB).
    5. Valero-Carreras, Daniel & Aparicio, Juan & Guerrero, Nadia M., 2021. "Support vector frontiers: A new approach for estimating production functions through support vector machines," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 104(C).

  2. Timothy J. Coelli & D.S. Prasada Rao & Christopher J. O’Donnell & George E. Battese, 2005. "An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis," Springer Books, Springer, edition 0, number 978-0-387-25895-9, November.

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    1. Ajayi, V. & Anaya, K. & Pollitt, M .G., 2021. "Incentive Regulation, Productivity Growth and Environmental Effects: The Case of Electricity Networks in Great Britain," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 2181, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
    2. Assaf, A. George & Barros, Carlos Pestana & Managi, Shunsuke, 2011. "Cost efficiency of Japanese steam power generation companies: A Bayesian comparison of random and fixed frontier models," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 88(4), pages 1441-1446, April.
    3. Orea, Luis & Growitsch, Christian & Jamasb, Tooraj, 2012. "Using Supervised Environmental Composites in Production and Efficiency Analyses: An Application to Norwegian Electricity Networks," Efficiency Series Papers 2012/04, University of Oviedo, Department of Economics, Oviedo Efficiency Group (OEG).
    4. Lundgren, Tommy & Marklund, Per-Olov & Zhang, Shanshan, 2016. "Industrial energy demand and energy efficiency – Evidence from Sweden," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 43(C), pages 130-152.
    5. Bazyli CZYZEWSKI & Adam MAJCHRZAK, 2017. "Economic size of farms and adjustments of the total factor productivity to the business cycle in Polish agriculture," Agricultural Economics, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 63(2), pages 93-102.
    6. Jie Wu & Qingyuan Zhu & Junfei Chu & Liang Liang, 2015. "Two-Stage Network Structures with Undesirable Intermediate Outputs Reused: A DEA Based Approach," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 46(3), pages 455-477, October.
    7. Scheierling, Susanne M. & Treguer, David O. & Booker, James F., 2015. "Water Productivity in Agriculture: Looking for Water in the Agricultural Productivity and Efficiency Literature," 2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California 205677, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    8. Andrew S. J. Smith & Jan-Eric Nilsson & Ivan Ridderstedt & Oskar Johansson, 2023. "Efficiency measurement in the tendering of road surface renewal contracts," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(2), pages 189-202, October.
    9. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2023. "Productivity analysis: roots, foundations, trends and perspectives," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(3), pages 229-247, December.
    10. Marthinus C. Breitenbach & Victor Ngobeni & Goodness C. Aye, 2021. "Efficiency of Healthcare Systems in the First Wave of COVID-19 – A Technical Efficiency Analysis," Economic Studies journal, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute, issue 6, pages 3-21.
    11. Daniel Kipruto Tuitoek & Clement Cheruiyot Tison & Lydia Jebichii, 2020. "Analysis of Technical Efficiency of Small Scale Tea Production in Nandi Hills – Nandi County: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 4(6), pages 149-163, June.
    12. Aldieri, Luigi & Gatto, Andrea & Vinci, Concetto Paolo, 2021. "Evaluation of energy resilience and adaptation policies: An energy efficiency analysis," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 157(C).
    13. Helmi Hammami & Thanh Ngo & David Tripe & Dinh-Tri Vo, 2022. "Ranking with a Euclidean common set of weights in data envelopment analysis: with application to the Eurozone banking sector," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 311(2), pages 675-694, April.
    14. Chia-Jung Tu & Ming-Chung Chang & Chiang-Ping Chen, 2016. "Progressive Time-Weighted Dynamic Energy Efficiency, Energy Decoupling Rate, and Decarbonization: An Empirical Study on G7 and BRICS," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 8(9), pages 1-17, September.
    15. Lundmark, Robert & Nolander, Carl & Olofsson, Elias, 2021. "Spatial production structure and input choices of forest products in Sweden," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 128(C).
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