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Kostantinos Elias Kounetas

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Capasso Salvatore & Maria Kaisari & Konstantinos Kounetas & Elias Lainas, 2023. "School productive performance and technology gaps: new evidence from PISA 2018," CSEF Working Papers 696, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy.

    Cited by:

    1. Agostino, Mariarosaria & Rondinella, Sandro & Ruberto, Sabrina, 2025. "Extreme weather events and efficiency in Italy's food sector: Does institutional quality matter?," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 146(C).
    2. Durães, Maria João & Barbosa, Flávia & D’Inverno, Giovanna & Camanho, Ana S., 2026. "Are European regions on the right track to achieve the 2030 strategic education and training targets? A comprehensive performance assessment," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 103(C).

  2. Rigas, Nikos & Kounetas, Konstantinos, 2021. "The Role of temperature, Precipitation and CO2 emissions on Countries’ Economic Growth and Productivity," MPRA Paper 104727, University Library of Munich, Germany.

    Cited by:

    1. Domicián Máté & Adam Novotny & Daniel Francois Meyer, 2021. "The Impact of Sustainability Goals on Productivity Growth: The Moderating Role of Global Warming," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(21), pages 1-13, October.
    2. Olfa Zarrad & Hajer Chibani & Thouraya Jaballah & Kamel Helali, 2026. "Nonlinear climate-economic dynamics in the European union: the role of renewable energy and emissions in temperature-induced growth effects," Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Springer, vol. 19(1), pages 1-29, December.

  3. Kounetas, Konstantinos & Stergiou, Eirini, 2020. "European industrial eco-efficiency under different pollutants' scenarios and heterogeneity structures. Is there a definite direction?," MPRA Paper 98583, University Library of Munich, Germany.

    Cited by:

    1. Fabrice-Gilles Ndombi Avouba & Prince Ossebi Douniam & Christelle Ines Leticia Ndombi Ondze, 2024. "Efficiency of SMEs in Africa: Evidence from Congolese Data," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 15(3), pages 10956-10984, September.

  4. Colesnic, Olga & Kounetas, Kostas & Polemis, Michael, 2018. "Estimating risk efficiency in MiddleEast banks before and after the crisis.A Metafrontier framework," MPRA Paper 84795, University Library of Munich, Germany.

    Cited by:

    1. Tharwah Shaalan, 2018. "Classification of Lending Risks and Interpretation of Operational Efficiency in Islamic Banks Registered on the Bahrain Stock Exchange," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 8(6), pages 151-156.
    2. José Manuel Maside-Sanfiz & Ana Iglesias-Casal & Qusay Ayman Sulaiman Mazahreh & Carmen López-Andión, 2025. "Market Structure and Technical Efficiency of Banks in the MENA Region," SAGE Open, , vol. 15(2), pages 21582440251, June.

  5. Kounetas, Kostas & Alexopoulos, Elias & Tzelepis, Dimitris, 2016. "Environmental and Financial Performance. Is there a win-win or a win-loss situation? Evidence from the Greek manufacturing," MPRA Paper 80906, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 19 Jul 2017.

    Cited by:

    1. Sini Laari & Tomi Solakivi & Anu Bask & Juuso Töyli & Lauri Ojala, 2021. "Unravelling Mickey Mouse: The Effect of Supply Chain Position and Organisational Slack on the Uneven Balance of Sustainability Dimensions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(24), pages 1-16, December.
    2. Francesco Gangi & Lucia Michela Daniele & Nicola Varrone, 2020. "How do corporate environmental policy and corporate reputation affect risk‐adjusted financial performance?," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 29(5), pages 1975-1991, July.
    3. Mudeer Ahmed Khattak & Buerhan Saiti, 2021. "Banks' environmental policy and business outcomes: The role of competition," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 30(1), pages 302-317, January.
    4. Othman Hel Al-Dhaimesh, 2020. "Green Accounting Practices and Economic Value Added: An Applied Study on Companies Listed on the Qatar Stock Exchange," International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Econjournals, vol. 10(6), pages 164-168.
    5. Dolores Gallardo-Vázquez & María J. Barroso-Méndez & María L. Pajuelo-Moreno & Julio Sánchez-Meca, 2019. "Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure and Performance: A Meta-Analytic Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(4), pages 1-33, February.
    6. Diego A. Vazquez-Brust & José Antonio Plaza-Úbeda, 2021. "What Characteristics Do the Firms Have That Go Beyond Compliance with Regulation in Environmental Protection? A Multiple Discriminant Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-27, February.
    7. Thi‐Hong‐Van Hoang & Wojciech Przychodzen & Justyna Przychodzen & Elysé A. Segbotangni, 2020. "Does it pay to be green? A disaggregated analysis of U.S. firms with green patents," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 29(3), pages 1331-1361, March.
    8. Margarita Robaina & Mara Madaleno, 2020. "The relationship between emissions reduction and financial performance: Are Portuguese companies in a sustainable development path?," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 27(3), pages 1213-1226, May.
    9. Yi Yang & Congxu Yao & Ying Li, 2020. "The impact of the amount of environmental information disclosure on financial performance: The moderating effect of corporate internationalization," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 27(6), pages 2893-2907, November.
    10. Siew − Peng Lee, 2021. "Environmental responsibility, CEO power and financial performance in the energy sector," Review of Managerial Science, Springer, vol. 15(8), pages 2407-2426, November.
    11. Surender Kumar & Pritika Dua, 2021. "Environmental Management Practices and Financial Performance:Evidence from Large Listed Indian Enterprises," Working papers 314, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics.

Articles

  1. Capasso, Salvatore & Kaisari, Maria & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Lainas, Elias, 2024. "School productive performance and technology gaps: New evidence from PISA 2018," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 131(C).
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Nikos Rigas & Konstantinos Elias Kounetas, 2024. "The impact of CO2 emissions and climate on economic growth and productivity: International evidence," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(2), pages 719-740, May.

    Cited by:

    1. Olfa Zarrad & Hajer Chibani & Thouraya Jaballah & Kamel Helali, 2026. "Nonlinear climate-economic dynamics in the European union: the role of renewable energy and emissions in temperature-induced growth effects," Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Springer, vol. 19(1), pages 1-29, December.

  3. Andriana G. Dimakopoulou & Nikos Chatzistamoulou & Kostas Kounetas & Kostas Tsekouras, 2023. "Environmental innovation and R&D collaborations: Firm decisions in the innovation efficiency context," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 48(4), pages 1176-1205, August.

    Cited by:

    1. Xi Zhong & Ge Ren, 2025. "Digitalization and firms’ innovation efficiency: Do corporate social responsibility and irresponsibility matter?," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 50(3), pages 856-888, June.
    2. Hongrui Jiao & Hongbing Deng & Shengmei Hu, 2025. "The Power of Collaboration: How Does Green Innovation Network Affect Urban Green Total Factor Productivity?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 17(2), pages 1-29, January.
    3. Yang, Zheng & Li, Lin & Hall, Nicholas G. & Lai, Yongzeng & Zhou, Yijiang, 2026. "Impact of technology spillovers and subsidies on innovation consortia dynamics," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 328(2), pages 560-573.
    4. Tchorzewska, Kinga B. & Rio, Pablo del & Garcia-Quevedo, Jose & Martinez-Ros, Ester, 2025. "Carrot first, stick second? Environmental policy-mix sequencing and green technologies," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 210(C).
    5. Shi, Humin & Zhu, Yingping, 2025. "Can the regional rule of law environment improve firms' innovation efficiency? Evidence on the moderating role of financial synergy," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 86(PE).
    6. Wu, Songyang & Ning, Lutao & Mu, Shijun, 2025. "Exploring the nexus between technological collaboration and green innovation: the role of corporate R&D structure and managerial orientation," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 199(C).
    7. Muammer Maral, 2025. "Cross-Country Analysis of Research and Development Efficiency in Higher Education: Data Envelopment Analysis and Hybrid Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 16(4), pages 14427-14460, October.

  4. Eirini Stergiou & Nikos Rigas & Eftychia Zaroutieri & Konstantinos Kounetas, 2023. "Energy, renewable and technical efficiency convergence: a global evidence," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 56(3), pages 1601-1628, June.

    Cited by:

    1. Napolitano, Oreste & Foresti, Pasquale & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Spagnolo, Nicola, 2023. "The impact of energy, renewable and CO2 emissions efficiency on countries’ productivity," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 125(C).
    2. André Luiz Marques Serrano & Patricia Helena dos Santos Martins & Guilherme Fay Vergara & Guilherme Dantas Bispo & Gabriel Arquelau Pimenta Rodrigues & Letícia Rezende Mosquéra & Matheus Noschang de O, 2025. "Forecasting Ethanol and Gasoline Consumption in Brazil: Advanced Temporal Models for Sustainable Energy Management," Energies, MDPI, vol. 18(6), pages 1-20, March.
    3. Payne, James E. & Saunoris, James W. & Nazlioglu, Saban & Smyth, Russell, 2024. "Renewable energy production across U.S. states: Convergence or divergence?," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 140(C).
    4. Erkan Erdogdu, 2025. "Restructuring energy markets for net-zero: the role of market-based solutions," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 58(2), pages 1-40, April.
    5. D’Errico, Maria Chiara, 2024. "Sustainable economic growth and energy security nexus: A stochastic frontier analysis across OECD countries," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 132(C).
    6. Erkul, Abdullah & Türköz, Kumru, 2024. "Green growth governance and total factor energy efficiency: Economic growth constraint and policy implementation in OECD countries," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 235(C).

  5. K. Kounetas & G. Androulakis & M. Kaisari & G. Manousakis, 2023. "Educational reforms and secondary school's efficiency performance in Greece: a bootstrap DEA and multilevel approach," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 23(1), pages 1-29, March.

    Cited by:

    1. Lin, Yi-Chun & Yu, Ming-Miin, 2025. "Evaluating the efficiency of Taiwan's compulsory education system: A dynamic network DEA approach incorporating dropout impacts," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 111(C).
    2. Siwei Xiao & Marios Dominikos Kremantzis & Leonidas Sotirios Kyrgiakos & George Vlontzos & Panos M. Pardalos, 2024. "Embracing fairness within a cross-efficiency hierarchical network DEA system," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 24(1), pages 1-31, March.
    3. Manuel Salas-Velasco, 2024. "Nonparametric efficiency measurement of undergraduate teaching by university size," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 24(1), pages 1-29, March.

  6. Nikos Chatzistamoulou & Kostas Kounetas, 2023. "Tracing green growth through industrial resource efficiency patterns: The role of competitiveness and clean technologies," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 44(7), pages 4011-4026, October.

    Cited by:

    1. Chatzistamoulou, Nikos & Dimakopoulou, Andriana G., 2025. "Do climate change policy instruments loom like the sword of Damocles over green technology independence to achieve green growth and sustainability in Europe?," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 215(C).

  7. Napolitano, Oreste & Foresti, Pasquale & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Spagnolo, Nicola, 2023. "The impact of energy, renewable and CO2 emissions efficiency on countries’ productivity," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 125(C).

    Cited by:

    1. Jiang, Yuchen & Sun, Jiasen & Wu, Jie, 2025. "Determination of energy efficiency based on machine learning and efficiency assessment methods," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 149(C).
    2. Romero-Jordán, Desiderio & del Río, Pablo & Pinto, Fernando, 2025. "Does energy productivity boost total factor productivity?," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 206(C).
    3. Erna Farina Mohamed & Azlina Abdullah & Amar Hisham Jaaffar, 2024. "Energy Efficiency in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review of Current Findings and Directions towards a Net Zero Economy," International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Econjournals, vol. 14(5), pages 495-508, September.
    4. Shutian Cui & Renlong Wang, 2024. "A Novel {\delta}-SBM-OPA Approach for Policy-Driven Analysis of Carbon Emission Efficiency under Uncertainty in the Chinese Industrial Sector," Papers 2408.11600, arXiv.org, revised Dec 2024.
    5. Valadkhani, Abbas & Moradi-Motlagh, Amir, 2025. "Examining inefficiency in countries with high energy consumption: A benchmarking approach," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 145(C).
    6. Kim, Myungjun & Kang, Sangmok, 2026. "Integrating dimensionality reduction and clustering for measuring profit efficiency: A stochastic meta-frontier approach in Korean manufacturing sector," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 89(C), pages 35-56.

  8. Martijn J. Burger & Kostas Kounetas & Oreste Napolitano & Spyridon Stavropoulos, 2022. "Do innovation and human capital actually narrow the technology gap? Champions and laggards of European regional productive performance," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 56(10), pages 1655-1670, October.

    Cited by:

    1. Wu, Weiwei & Wang, Zhengfu, 2025. "Industrial robot diffusion and regional innovation disparities," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 83(C).
    2. Stergiou, Eirini & Rigas, Nikos & Kounetas, Konstantinos E., 2023. "Environmental productivity growth across European industries," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 123(C).
    3. Chen, Lei & Wang, Ying-Ming, 2023. "Game directional distance function in meta-frontier data envelopment analysis," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 121(C).

  9. Stergiou, Eirini & Kounetas, Konstantinos, 2022. "Heterogeneity, spillovers and eco-efficiency of European industries under different pollutants’ scenarios. Is there a definite direction?," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 195(C).

    Cited by:

    1. Sovacool, Benjamin K. & Baum, Chad M. & Low, Sean, 2023. "Beyond climate stabilization: Exploring the perceived sociotechnical co-impacts of carbon removal and solar geoengineering," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 204(PA).
    2. Stergiou, Eirini, 2022. "Environmental Efficiency of European Industries across Sectors and Countries," MPRA Paper 114635, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Stergiou, Eirini & Rigas, Nikos & Kounetas, Konstantinos E., 2023. "Environmental productivity growth across European industries," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 123(C).
    4. Cognard, Jonathan & Berard-Chenu, Lucas & Schaeffer, Yves & François, Hugues, 2025. "Snowmaking's slippery slope: The effect of mountain reservoirs on water demand," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 233(C).
    5. Salman, Muhammad & Long, Xingle & Wang, Guimei & Zha, Donglan, 2022. "Paris climate agreement and global environmental efficiency: New evidence from fuzzy regression discontinuity design," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 168(C).
    6. Liu, Jing-Yue & Lei, Quan & Li, Ruojin & Zhang, Yue-Jun, 2024. "Resistance or motivation? Impact of climate risk on corporate greenwashing: An empirical study of Chinese enterprises," Global Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 62(C).

  10. Chatzistamoulou, Nikos & Kounetas, Kostas & Tsekouras, Kostas, 2022. "Technological hierarchies and learning: Spillovers, complexity, relatedness, and the moderating role of absorptive capacity," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 183(C).

    Cited by:

    1. You, Li & Zhang, Zongyi & Wang, Wei & Zhao, Xuezhou, 2024. "Learning from innovation award winners? Technology spillovers and firm innovation," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
    2. Wang, Ailun & Si, Lulu & Hu, Shuo, 2025. "Does China's outward foreign direct investment improve carbon emission Efficiency? The heterogeneous impact of economic development," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 204(C).
    3. Zhao, Shuliang & Wang, Junchen & Ji, Jiaojiao & Vincent Ekow, Arkorful, 2024. "Proximity or alienation? Can knowledge type influence the relationship between proximity and enterprise innovation performance?," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 202(C).
    4. Capasso, Salvatore & Kaisari, Maria & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Lainas, Elias, 2024. "School productive performance and technology gaps: New evidence from PISA 2018," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 131(C).
    5. Sinazo Ngqoleka & Thobeka Ncanywa & Zibongiwe Mpongwana & Abiola John Asaleye, 2025. "Industrial Diversification in Emerging Economies: The Role of Human Capital, Technological Investment, and Institutional Quality in Promoting Economic Complexity," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 17(15), pages 1-22, August.
    6. Chatzistamoulou, Nikos & Kounetas, Kostas & Tsekouras, Kostas, 2024. "Knowledge flows in Data Envelopment Analysis. The role of peer effects," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 129(C).
    7. Lukas Mueller & Timothy Peter Marcroft & Constantin von Beck & Jan Pedro Zeiss & Valeria Jana Schwanitz & August Wierling & Lars Holstenkamp, 2024. "“First come, first served" or “the more, the merrier"? Organizational dynamics of citizen-led solar initiatives and the presence of photovoltaic installations in Germany," Post-Print hal-05123966, HAL.
    8. Nikos Chatzistamoulou & Kostas Kounetas, 2023. "Tracing green growth through industrial resource efficiency patterns: The role of competitiveness and clean technologies," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 44(7), pages 4011-4026, October.
    9. Zhang, Aili & Zhu, Han & Sun, Xinyu, 2024. "Manufacturing intelligentization and technological innovation: Perspectives on intra-industry impacts and inter-industry technology spillovers," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 204(C).
    10. Liao, Wei & Gu, Jianping & Li, Kaijian, 2025. "Roles of related and unrelated external technologies in shaping regional breakthrough technological advantages," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 210(C).
    11. Stergiou, Eirini & Rigas, Nikos & Kounetas, Konstantinos E., 2023. "Environmental productivity growth across European industries," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 123(C).
    12. Chatzistamoulou, Nikos & Dimakopoulou, Andriana G., 2025. "Do climate change policy instruments loom like the sword of Damocles over green technology independence to achieve green growth and sustainability in Europe?," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 215(C).
    13. Yildiz, H. Emre & Murtic, Adis & Zander, Udo, 2024. "Re-conceptualizing absorptive capacity: The importance of teams as a meso-level context," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 199(C).

  11. Kounetas, Konstantinos E. & Polemis, Michael L. & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2021. "Measurement of eco-efficiency and convergence: Evidence from a non-parametric frontier analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 291(1), pages 365-378.

    Cited by:

    1. Napolitano, Oreste & Foresti, Pasquale & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Spagnolo, Nicola, 2023. "The impact of energy, renewable and CO2 emissions efficiency on countries’ productivity," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 125(C).
    2. Dai, Sheng & Kuosmanen, Timo & Zhou, Xun, 2023. "Generalized quantile and expectile properties for shape constrained nonparametric estimation," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 310(2), pages 914-927.
    3. Bernard Banyuls & José Carlos Vides, 2025. "Convergence in R&D Expenditure in the European Union: A Club Convergence and KMeans Clustering Analysis," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 16(3), pages 13223-13251, September.
    4. Konstantinos Eleftheriou & Peter Nijkamp & Michael L. Polemis, 2024. "Club convergence of sustainable development: fresh evidence from developing and developed countries," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 57(2), pages 1-18, April.
    5. D’Errico, Maria Chiara, 2024. "Sustainable economic growth and energy security nexus: A stochastic frontier analysis across OECD countries," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 132(C).
    6. Pyoungsoo Lee, 2022. "Ranking Decision Making for Eco-Efficiency Using Operational, Energy, and Environmental Efficiency," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(6), pages 1-18, March.
    7. Shang, Hua & Jiang, Li & Pan, Xianyou & Pan, Xiongfeng, 2022. "Green technology innovation spillover effect and urban eco-efficiency convergence: Evidence from Chinese cities," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 114(C).
    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. Liangen Zeng, 2021. "China’s Eco-Efficiency: Regional Differences and Influencing Factors Based on a Spatial Panel Data Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-19, March.
    10. Jingbin Wang & Huiling Qiao & Jing Liu & Bo Li, 2022. "Does the Establishment of National New Areas Improve Urban Ecological Efficiency? Empirical Evidence Based on Staggered DID Model," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(20), pages 1-21, October.
    11. Ba-Tam Le & Thanh Ngo & Thi-Thanh-Xuan Mai, 2026. "Non-convex Efficiency of the Vietnamese Banking System: An Efficiency Analysis Tree (EAT) Approach," Advances in Decision Sciences, Asia University, Taiwan, vol. 29(1), pages 145-173.
    12. Heping Ding & Yuxia Guo & Xue Wu & Cui Wang & Yu Zhang & Hongjun Liu & Yujia Liu & Aiyong Lin & Fagang Hu, 2022. "Data-Driven Resource Efficiency Evaluation and Improvement of the Logistics Industry in 30 Chinese Provinces and Cities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(15), pages 1-23, August.
    13. Michael L. Polemis & Panagiotis Fotis & Panayiotis G. Tzeremes & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2022. "On the examination of the decoupling effect of air pollutants from economic growth: a convergence analysis for the US," Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Springer, vol. 15(3), pages 691-707, December.
    14. Panagiotis Mitropoulos & Alexandros Mitropoulos, 2023. "Evaluating efficiency and technology gaps of the national systems of entrepreneurship using stochastic DEA and club convergence," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 23(1), pages 1-28, March.
    15. Jing Bian & Feng Lan & Yulin Zhou & Zhenzhen Peng & Mingfang Dong, 2022. "Spatial and Temporal Evolution and Driving Factors of Urban Ecological Well-Being Performance in China," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(16), pages 1-19, August.
    16. Zhimin Peng & Miao Li, 2025. "Carbon Emissions Intensity of the Transportation Sector in China: Spatiotemporal Differentiation, Trends Forecasting and Convergence Characteristics," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 17(3), pages 1-30, January.

  12. Eirini Stergiou & Kostas Kounetas, 2021. "European Industries’ Energy Efficiency under Different Technological Regimes: The Role of CO2 Emissions, Climate, Path Dependence and Energy Mix," The Energy Journal, , vol. 42(1), pages 93-128, January.

    Cited by:

    1. Erkul, Abdullah & Türköz, Kumru, 2024. "Green growth governance and total factor energy efficiency: Economic growth constraint and policy implementation in OECD countries," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 235(C).

  13. Colesnic, Olga & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Michael, Polemis, 2020. "Estimating risk efficiency in Middle East banks before and after the crisis: A metafrontier framework," Global Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 46(C).
    See citations under working paper version above.
  14. Bonasia, Mariangela & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Oreste, Napolitano, 2020. "Assessment of regional productive performance of European health systems under a metatechnology framework," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 84(C), pages 234-248.

    Cited by:

    1. Nikolaos, Chatzistamoulou & Theodoros, Antonakis & Konstantinos, Kounetas, 2020. "Salary cap and National Basketball Association teams' productive performance. A two stage Data Envelopment Analysis approach under a metatechnology framework," MPRA Paper 98811, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Nikos Chatzistamoulou & Kounetas Kostas & Antonakis Theodor, 2022. "Salary Cap, Organizational Gap, and Catch-up in the Performance of NBA Teams: A Two-Stage DEA Model Under Heterogeneity," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 23(2), pages 123-155, February.
    3. Jagrič, Timotej & Brown, Christine & Boyce, Tammy & Jagrič, Vita, 2021. "The impact of the health-care sector on national economies in selected European countries," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 125(1), pages 90-97.
    4. Sedghi, Sepideh & Azizi, Shima & Canada, Katherine & Charles, Vincent & Trapp, Andrew C., 2025. "Performance evaluation of child welfare departments using Data Envelopment Analysis: A comparative study across US states," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).
    5. Capasso, Salvatore & Kaisari, Maria & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Lainas, Elias, 2024. "School productive performance and technology gaps: New evidence from PISA 2018," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 131(C).
    6. Ponzo, Michela & Scoppa, Vincenzo, 2021. "Does demand for health services depend on cost-sharing? Evidence from Italy," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 103(C).
    7. Dino Rizzi & Michele Zanette, 2021. "Potential efficiency gains and expenditure savings in the Italian Regional Healthcare Systems," Working Papers 2021:27, Department of Economics, University of Venice "Ca' Foscari".
    8. Chao Chen & Sixue Liu & Xiaojia Zhang, 2025. "Efficiency Assessments and Regional Disparities of Green Cold Chain Logistics for Agricultural Products: Evidence from the Three Northeastern Provinces of China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 17(21), pages 1-27, October.

  15. 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.

    Cited by:

    1. Nikolaos, Chatzistamoulou & Theodoros, Antonakis & Konstantinos, Kounetas, 2020. "Salary cap and National Basketball Association teams' productive performance. A two stage Data Envelopment Analysis approach under a metatechnology framework," MPRA Paper 98811, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Michael L. Polemis & Mike G. Tsionas, 2022. "Endogenous productivity: a new Bayesian perspective," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 318(1), pages 425-451, November.
    3. Napolitano, Oreste & Foresti, Pasquale & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Spagnolo, Nicola, 2023. "The impact of energy, renewable and CO2 emissions efficiency on countries’ productivity," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 125(C).
    4. Nikos Chatzistamoulou & Kounetas Kostas & Antonakis Theodor, 2022. "Salary Cap, Organizational Gap, and Catch-up in the Performance of NBA Teams: A Two-Stage DEA Model Under Heterogeneity," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 23(2), pages 123-155, February.
    5. Ilias Vlachos & Panagiotis D. Zervopoulos & Gang Cheng, 2024. "Supply chain performance evaluation using a network data envelopment analysis model with bias-corrected estimates," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 337(1), pages 343-395, June.
    6. 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.
    7. Tsionas, Mike G., 2019. "Transition and limiting distributions when covariates are available," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 183(C), pages 1-1.
    8. Kounetas, Konstantinos & Stergiou, Eirini, 2019. "Examining eco-efficiency convergence of European Industries.The existence of technological spillovers within a metafrontier framework," MPRA Paper 94286, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    9. Bonasia, Mariangela & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Oreste, Napolitano, 2020. "Assessment of regional productive performance of European health systems under a metatechnology framework," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 84(C), pages 234-248.
    10. Nikos Chatzistamoulou & Phoebe Koundouri, 2020. "Environmental Efficiency, Productive Performance and Spillover Effects under heterogeneous Environmental Awareness Regimes," DEOS Working Papers 2013, Athens University of Economics and Business.
    11. Kounetas, Konstantinos E. & Polemis, Michael L. & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2021. "Measurement of eco-efficiency and convergence: Evidence from a non-parametric frontier analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 291(1), pages 365-378.
    12. Nikos Chatzistamoulou & Kostas Kounetas, 2023. "Tracing green growth through industrial resource efficiency patterns: The role of competitiveness and clean technologies," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 44(7), pages 4011-4026, October.
    13. Tsionas, Mike G., 2023. "Clustering and meta-envelopment in data envelopment analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 304(2), pages 763-778.
    14. Ryo Ishida & Mika Goto, 2024. "Integrated Efficiency of Japan’s 47 Prefectures Incorporating Sustainability Factors," Energies, MDPI, vol. 17(8), pages 1-21, April.
    15. Kounetas, Konstantinos & Polemis, Michael & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2019. "An alternative probabilistic frontier analysis to the measurement of eco-efficiency," MPRA Paper 93686, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    16. Fukuyama, Hirofumi & Tan, Yong & Wanke, Peter, 2025. "Global inefficiencies in labour, patents, energy, capital, environment, and economics: The role of corruption, democracy, and income distribution," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 100(C).

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    3. Nikos Chatzistamoulou & Phoebe Koundouri, 2020. "The Economics of Sustainable Development," DEOS Working Papers 2005, Athens University of Economics and Business.
    4. Nikos Chatzistamoulou & Kounetas Kostas & Antonakis Theodor, 2022. "Salary Cap, Organizational Gap, and Catch-up in the Performance of NBA Teams: A Two-Stage DEA Model Under Heterogeneity," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 23(2), pages 123-155, February.
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    6. Nikos Chatzistamoulou & Phoebe Koundouri, 2024. "Is Green Transition in Europe Fostered by Energy and Environmental Efficiency Feedback Loops? The Role of Eco-Innovation, Renewable Energy and Green Taxation," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 87(6), pages 1445-1472, June.
    7. Eirini Stergiou & Nikos Rigas & Eftychia Zaroutieri & Konstantinos Kounetas, 2023. "Energy, renewable and technical efficiency convergence: a global evidence," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 56(3), pages 1601-1628, June.
    8. Capasso, Salvatore & Kaisari, Maria & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Lainas, Elias, 2024. "School productive performance and technology gaps: New evidence from PISA 2018," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 131(C).
    9. Nikos Chatzistamoulou & Phoebe Koundouri, 2020. "Environmental Efficiency, Productive Performance and Spillover Effects under heterogeneous Environmental Awareness Regimes," DEOS Working Papers 2013, Athens University of Economics and Business.
    10. Liang Nie & ZhongXiang Zhang, 2022. "Market Segmentation and Energy Efficiency: Evidence from China’s Regional Economies," The Energy Journal, , vol. 43(6), pages 217-242, November.
    11. Stergiou, Eirini & Rigas, Nikos & Kounetas, Konstantinos, 2021. "Environmental Productivity and Convergence of European Manufacturing Industries. Are they Under Pressure?," MPRA Paper 110780, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    12. Mohd Alsaleh & Azeem Oluwaseyi Zubair & Abdul Samad Abdul‐Rahim, 2020. "The impact of global competitiveness on the growth of bioenergy industry in EU‐28 region," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 28(5), pages 1304-1316, September.
    13. Nikos Chatzistamoulou & Phoebe Koundouri, 2020. "Exploring Feedback Loops between Performance Measures. Energy and Environmental Efficiency under heterogeneous Eco-Innovation groups," DEOS Working Papers 2012, Athens University of Economics and Business.
    14. Eirini Stergiou & Kostas Kounetas, 2021. "European Industries’ Energy Efficiency under Different Technological Regimes: The Role of CO2 Emissions, Climate, Path Dependence and Energy Mix," The Energy Journal, , vol. 42(1), pages 93-128, January.
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    8. Nikos Chatzistamoulou & Kostas Kounetas, 2023. "Tracing green growth through industrial resource efficiency patterns: The role of competitiveness and clean technologies," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 44(7), pages 4011-4026, October.
    9. Chatzistamoulou, Nikos & Kounetas, Kostas & Tsekouras, Kostas, 2022. "Technological hierarchies and learning: Spillovers, complexity, relatedness, and the moderating role of absorptive capacity," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 183(C).
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    8. Qianying Jin & Kristiaan Kerstens & Ignace van de Woestyne, 2020. "Metafrontier productivity indices: Questioning the common convexification strategy," Post-Print hal-02496997, HAL.
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    10. Kounetas, Kostas & Napolitano, Oreste & Stavropoulos, Spyridon & Burger, Martijn, 2018. "European Regional Productive Performance under a Metafrontier Framework. The role of patents and human capital on technology gap?," MPRA Paper 88957, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 17 Jul 2018.
    11. Kounetas, Konstantinos & Stergiou, Eirini, 2019. "Examining eco-efficiency convergence of European Industries.The existence of technological spillovers within a metafrontier framework," MPRA Paper 94286, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    12. Martijn J. Burger & Kostas Kounetas & Oreste Napolitano & Spyridon Stavropoulos, 2022. "Do innovation and human capital actually narrow the technology gap? Champions and laggards of European regional productive performance," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 56(10), pages 1655-1670, October.
    13. Bonasia, Mariangela & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Oreste, Napolitano, 2020. "Assessment of regional productive performance of European health systems under a metatechnology framework," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 84(C), pages 234-248.
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    15. Kristiaan Kerstens & Christopher O’donnell & Ignace van de Woestyne, 2019. "Metatechnology frontier and convexity: A restatement," Post-Print hal-02108502, HAL.
    16. Nikos Chatzistamoulou & Phoebe Koundouri, 2020. "Environmental Efficiency, Productive Performance and Spillover Effects under heterogeneous Environmental Awareness Regimes," DEOS Working Papers 2013, Athens University of Economics and Business.
    17. Stergiou, Eirini & Rigas, Nikos & Kounetas, Konstantinos, 2021. "Environmental Productivity and Convergence of European Manufacturing Industries. Are they Under Pressure?," MPRA Paper 110780, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    18. Kerstens, Kristiaan & O’Donnell, Christopher & Van de Woestyne, Ignace & Zhao, Shirong, 2026. "When cost metafrontiers are nonconvex in the outputs, then the production metafrontier is nonconvex: the price of a convexification strategy," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 328(1), pages 324-335.
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    23. Nikos Chatzistamoulou & Phoebe Koundouri, 2020. "Exploring Feedback Loops between Performance Measures. Energy and Environmental Efficiency under heterogeneous Eco-Innovation groups," DEOS Working Papers 2012, Athens University of Economics and Business.
    24. Eirini Stergiou & Kostas Kounetas, 2021. "European Industries’ Energy Efficiency under Different Technological Regimes: The Role of CO2 Emissions, Climate, Path Dependence and Energy Mix," The Energy Journal, , vol. 42(1), pages 93-128, January.
    25. Nikos Chatzistamoulou & Kostas Kounetas, 2023. "Tracing green growth through industrial resource efficiency patterns: The role of competitiveness and clean technologies," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 44(7), pages 4011-4026, October.
    26. Nikos Chatzistamoulou & Phoebe Koundouri, 2022. "Resource Productivity and Eco-Innovation Convergence in the Service of Sustainability. Evidence from the EU-28," DEOS Working Papers 2233, Athens University of Economics and Business.
    27. Zhang, Aili & Zhu, Han & Sun, Xinyu, 2024. "Manufacturing intelligentization and technological innovation: Perspectives on intra-industry impacts and inter-industry technology spillovers," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 204(C).
    28. Stergiou, Eirini & Kounetas, Konstantinos, 2022. "Heterogeneity, spillovers and eco-efficiency of European industries under different pollutants’ scenarios. Is there a definite direction?," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 195(C).
    29. Tsionas, Mike G., 2023. "Clustering and meta-envelopment in data envelopment analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 304(2), pages 763-778.
    30. Manuel Espitia‐Escuer & Lucia Isabel Garcia‐Cebrian, 2020. "Efficiency of football teams from an organisation management perspective," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 41(3), pages 321-338, April.
    31. Stergiou, Eirini & Rigas, Nikos & Kounetas, Konstantinos E., 2023. "Environmental productivity growth across European industries," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 123(C).
    32. Chatzistamoulou, Nikos & Kounetas, Kostas & Tsekouras, Kostas, 2022. "Technological hierarchies and learning: Spillovers, complexity, relatedness, and the moderating role of absorptive capacity," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 183(C).
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    36. Nikos Chatzistamoulou & Phoebe Koundouri, 2020. "Exploring the patterns of Eco-Innovation index and Competitiveness index in Europe," DEOS Working Papers 2011, Athens University of Economics and Business.
    37. Chatzistamoulou, Nikos & Dimakopoulou, Andriana G., 2025. "Do climate change policy instruments loom like the sword of Damocles over green technology independence to achieve green growth and sustainability in Europe?," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 215(C).
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    9. Tsionas, Mike G., 2022. "Convex non-parametric least squares, causal structures and productivity," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(1), pages 370-387.
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    32. Charles Fang Chin Cheng & Nicola Cantore, 2020. "The Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development Index: A Data Envelopment Analysis approach," SEEDS Working Papers 0320, SEEDS, Sustainability Environmental Economics and Dynamics Studies, revised Mar 2020.
    33. Sueyoshi, Toshiyuki & Yuan, Yan, 2016. "Marginal Rate of Transformation and Rate of Substitution measured by DEA environmental assessment: Comparison among European and North American nations," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 270-287.
    34. Xiang Ji & Jie Wu & Qingyuan Zhu & Jiasen Sun, 2019. "Using a hybrid heterogeneous DEA method to benchmark China’s sustainable urbanization: an empirical study," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 278(1), pages 281-335, July.
    35. Torrecillas, Celia & Fernández, Sara & García-García, Claudia, 2023. "Drivers to increase eco-efficiencies in Uruguay, Peru, and Panama," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 183(C).
    36. Kounetas, Kostas & Napolitano, Oreste, 2018. "Modeling the incidence of international trade on Italian regional productive efficiency using a meta-frontier DEA approach," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 45-58.
    37. Walheer, Barnabé, 2023. "Meta-frontier and technology switchers: A nonparametric approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 305(1), pages 463-474.
    38. Kounetas, Kostas & Napolitano, Oreste, 2015. "Too much EMU? An investigation of technology gaps," MPRA Paper 67600, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    39. Kounetas, Konstantinos & Stergiou, Eirini, 2020. "European industrial eco-efficiency under different pollutants' scenarios and heterogeneity structures. Is there a definite direction?," MPRA Paper 98583, University Library of Munich, Germany.

  25. Kostas Kounetas, 2014. "Greek football clubs’ efficiency before and after Euro 2004 Victory: a bootstrap approach," 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. 22(4), pages 623-645, December.

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    1. Nikolaos, Chatzistamoulou & Theodoros, Antonakis & Konstantinos, Kounetas, 2020. "Salary cap and National Basketball Association teams' productive performance. A two stage Data Envelopment Analysis approach under a metatechnology framework," MPRA Paper 98811, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Dina A. M. Miragaia & João J. M. Ferreira & Cédric T. Vieira, 2024. "Efficiency of Non-profit Organisations: a DEA Analysis in Support of Strategic Decision-Making," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 15(1), pages 3239-3265, March.
    3. Emilios Galariotis & Christophe Germain & Constantin Zopounidis, 2018. "A combined methodology for the concurrent evaluation of the business, financial and sports performance of football clubs: the case of France," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 266(1), pages 589-612, July.
    4. Rohde, Marc & Breuer, Christoph, 2018. "Competing by investments or efficiency? Exploring financial and sporting efficiency of club ownership structures in European football," Sport Management Review, Elsevier, vol. 21(5), pages 563-581.
    5. Dina Miragaia & João Ferreira & Alexandre Carvalho & Vanessa Ratten, 2019. "Interactions between financial efficiency and sports performance," Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 8(1), pages 84-102, July.

  26. Kostas Kounetas & Fotis Papathanassopoulos, 2013. "How efficient are Greek hospitals? A case study using a double bootstrap DEA approach," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 14(6), pages 979-994, December.

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    1. Songul Cinaroglu, 2024. "Efficiency effects of public hospital closures in the context of public hospital reform: a multistep efficiency analysis," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 27(1), pages 88-113, March.
    2. Giuliani, Ginevra & Gitto, Simone, 2025. "What is the difference between specialisation and diversity in hospitals? Investigating their relationship with efficiency," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 100(C).
    3. George Fragkiadakis & Michael Doumpos & Constantin Zopounidis & Christophe Germain, 2016. "Operational and economic efficiency analysis of public hospitals in Greece," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 247(2), pages 787-806, December.
    4. Angeliki Flokou & Vassilis Aletras & Dimitris Niakas, 2017. "Decomposition of potential efficiency gains from hospital mergers in Greece," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 20(4), pages 467-484, December.
    5. Akkan, Can & Karadayi, Melis Almula & Ekinci, Yeliz & Ülengin, Füsun & Uray, Nimet & Karaosmanoğlu, Elif, 2020. "Efficiency analysis of emergency departments in metropolitan areas," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 69(C).
    6. Fernando Gascón & Jesús Lozano & Borja Ponte & David Fuente, 2017. "Measuring the efficiency of large pharmaceutical companies: an industry analysis," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 18(5), pages 587-608, June.
    7. Eleni Dimitriadou & Asimina Kouriati & Sofia Karampela & Anna Tafidou & Thomas Bournaris, 2023. "The Three Dimensions of Small Accommodation Businesses and Their Efficiency," Tourism and Hospitality, MDPI, vol. 4(3), pages 1-16, August.
    8. Roshanghalb, Afsaneh & Mazzali, Cristina & Lettieri, Emanuele & Paganoni, Anna Maria & Bottle, Alex, 2021. "Stability over time of the “hospital effect” on 30-day unplanned readmissions: Evidence from administrative data," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 125(10), pages 1393-1397.
    9. Lorena Androutsou & Michail Kokkinos & Dimitra Latsou & Mary Geitona, 2022. "Assessing the Efficiency and Productivity of the Hospital Clinics on the Island of Rhodes during the COVID-19 Pandemic," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(23), pages 1-12, November.
    10. George Fragkiadakis & Michael Doumpos & Constantin Zopounidis & Christophe Germain, 2016. "Operational and economic efficiency analysis of public hospitals in Greece," Post-Print hal-01414677, HAL.
    11. Capasso, Salvatore & Kaisari, Maria & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Lainas, Elias, 2024. "School productive performance and technology gaps: New evidence from PISA 2018," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 131(C).
    12. Peipei Chai & Quan Wan & Yohannes Kinfu, 2021. "Efficiency and productivity of health systems in prevention and control of non-communicable diseases in China, 2008–2015," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 22(2), pages 267-279, March.
    13. Youssef Er-Rays & Meriem M’dioud & Hamid Ait-Lemqeddem & Mustapha Ezzahiri, 2024. "Assessing efficiency maternal and child health services in Morocco: data envelopement analysis and Tobit model," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 58(6), pages 5577-5619, December.
    14. See, Kok Fong & Ng, Ying Chu, 2021. "Do hospital reform and ownership matter to Shenzhen hospitals in China? A productivity analysis," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 72(C), pages 145-155.
    15. Iveta Vrabková & Ivana Vaňková, 2021. "Efficiency of Human Resources in Public Hospitals: An Example from the Czech Republic," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(9), pages 1-14, April.
    16. Ioannis Gkouvitsos & Ioannis Giannikos, 2022. "Using a MACBETH based multicriteria approach for virtual weight restrictions in each stage of a DEA multi-stage ranking process," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 22(3), pages 1787-1811, July.
    17. Chowdhury, Hedayet & Zelenyuk, Valentin & Laporte, Audrey & Wodchis, Walter P., 2014. "Analysis of productivity, efficiency and technological changes in hospital services in Ontario: How does case-mix matter?," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 150(C), pages 74-82.
    18. Robert Stefko & Beata Gavurova & Kristina Kocisova, 2018. "Healthcare efficiency assessment using DEA analysis in the Slovak Republic," Health Economics Review, Springer, vol. 8(1), pages 1-12, December.
    19. 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.
    20. Ferreira, D.C. & Marques, R.C., 2019. "Do quality and access to hospital services impact on their technical efficiency?," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 218-236.
    21. Diogo Ferreira & Rui Marques, 2015. "Did the corporatization of Portuguese hospitals significantly change their productivity?," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 16(3), pages 289-303, April.
    22. Yongjun Li & Xiyang Lei & Alec Morton, 2019. "Performance evaluation of nonhomogeneous hospitals: the case of Hong Kong hospitals," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 22(2), pages 215-228, June.
    23. Eleni Dimitriadou & Thomas Bournaris & Theodoros Stavrinoudis & Olga Iakovidou, 2021. "The Efficiency Score of Small Accommodation Businesses in Non-Coastal Rural Areas in Greece," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(19), pages 1-15, October.
    24. K. Kounetas & G. Androulakis & M. Kaisari & G. Manousakis, 2023. "Educational reforms and secondary school's efficiency performance in Greece: a bootstrap DEA and multilevel approach," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 23(1), pages 1-29, March.
    25. Panagiotis Mitropoulos & Kostas Kounetas & Ioannis Mitropoulos, 2016. "Factors affecting primary health care centers’ economic and production efficiency," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 247(2), pages 807-822, December.
    26. Tito N. Tiehi, 2020. "Technical Inefficiency of District Hospitals in Côte d'Ivoire: Measurement, Causes and Consequences," International Journal of Economics and Finance, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 12(9), pages 1-35, September.
    27. Fengyi Lin & Yung-Jr Deng & Wen-Min Lu & Qian Long Kweh, 2019. "Impulse response function analysis of the impacts of hospital accreditations on hospital efficiency," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 22(3), pages 394-409, September.

  27. Kontolaimou, Alexandra & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Mourtos, Ioannis & Tsekouras, Kostas, 2012. "Technology gaps in European banking: Put the blame on inputs or outputs?," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 29(5), pages 1798-1808.

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    2. Chi‐Chuan Lee & Tai‐Hsin Huang, 2019. "What Causes The Efficiency And The Technology Gap Under Different Ownership Structures In The Chinese Banking Industry?," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 37(2), pages 332-348, April.
    3. Napolitano, Oreste & Foresti, Pasquale & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Spagnolo, Nicola, 2023. "The impact of energy, renewable and CO2 emissions efficiency on countries’ productivity," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 125(C).
    4. Kounetas, Kostas & Zervopoulos, Panagiotis, 2017. "Annex I and non-Annex I countries’productive performance revisited using a generalized directional distance function under a metafrontier framework: Is there any convergence-divergence pattern for technology gaps?," MPRA Paper 80904, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Colesnic, Olga & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Michael, Polemis, 2020. "Estimating risk efficiency in Middle East banks before and after the crisis: A metafrontier framework," Global Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 46(C).
    6. Casu, Barbara & Ferrari, Alessandra & Girardone, Claudia & Wilson, John O.S., 2016. "Integration, productivity and technological spillovers: Evidence for eurozone banking industries," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 255(3), pages 971-983.
    7. Areti Gkypali & Kostas Kounetas & Kostas Tsekouras, 2019. "European countries’ competitiveness and productive performance evolution: unraveling the complexity in a heterogeneity context," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 29(2), pages 665-695, April.
    8. Kounetas, Kostas & Napolitano, Oreste & Stavropoulos, Spyridon & Burger, Martijn, 2018. "European Regional Productive Performance under a Metafrontier Framework. The role of patents and human capital on technology gap?," MPRA Paper 88957, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 17 Jul 2018.
    9. Martijn J. Burger & Kostas Kounetas & Oreste Napolitano & Spyridon Stavropoulos, 2022. "Do innovation and human capital actually narrow the technology gap? Champions and laggards of European regional productive performance," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 56(10), pages 1655-1670, October.
    10. Bonasia, Mariangela & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Oreste, Napolitano, 2020. "Assessment of regional productive performance of European health systems under a metatechnology framework," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 84(C), pages 234-248.
    11. Chaffai, Mohamed & Coccorese, Paolo, 2019. "How far away is the MENA banking system? Efficiency comparisons with international banks," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 49(C), pages 378-395.
    12. Ferrara, Giancarlo & Kounetas, Konstantinos E., 2024. "US banks efficiency after global financial crisis: Transient and persistent decomposition," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 72(C).
    13. Nguyen, Thanh & Nghiem, Son & Bhati, Abhishek Singh, 2024. "Risk-adjusted efficiency and innovation: an examination of systematic difference and convergence among BRIC banks," Economic Systems, Elsevier, vol. 48(1).
    14. Tsekouras, Kostas & Chatzistamoulou, Nikos & Kounetas, Kostas & Broadstock, David C., 2016. "Spillovers, path dependence and the productive performance of European transportation sectors in the presence of technology heterogeneity," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 102(C), pages 261-274.
    15. 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.
    16. Mohamed Chaffai & M. Kabir Hassan, 2019. "Technology Gap and Managerial Efficiency: A Comparison between Islamic and Conventional Banks in MENA," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 51(1), pages 39-53, February.
    17. Kontolaimou, Alexandra & Giotopoulos, Ioannis & Tsakanikas, Aggelos, 2016. "A typology of European countries based on innovation efficiency and technology gaps: The role of early-stage entrepreneurship," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 52(PB), pages 477-484.
    18. Cristian Barra & Anna Papaccio & Nazzareno Ruggiero, 2025. "Management Cost Efficiency and Technology Gap: Cooperative vs. Non-Cooperative Credit Banks," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 16(6), pages 18707-18737, December.
    19. Gerasimos T. Soldatos, 2020. "Technical inefficiency and output scale in banking and industry," Economics and Business Letters, Oviedo University Press, vol. 9(3), pages 270-278.
    20. Kounetas, Konstantinos, 2015. "Heterogeneous technologies, strategic groups and environmental efficiency technology gaps for European countries," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 83(C), pages 277-287.
    21. Kounetas, Kostas & Napolitano, Oreste, 2018. "Modeling the incidence of international trade on Italian regional productive efficiency using a meta-frontier DEA approach," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 45-58.
    22. Walheer, Barnabé, 2023. "Meta-frontier and technology switchers: A nonparametric approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 305(1), pages 463-474.
    23. Tziogkidis, Panagiotis & Philippas, Dionisis & Tsionas, Mike G., 2020. "Multidirectional conditional convergence in European banking," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 173(C), pages 88-106.
    24. Kounetas, Kostas & Napolitano, Oreste, 2015. "Too much EMU? An investigation of technology gaps," MPRA Paper 67600, University Library of Munich, Germany.

  28. Kounetas, Konstantinos & Mourtos, Ioannis & Tsekouras, Konstantinos, 2012. "Is energy intensity important for the productivity growth of EET adopters?," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 34(4), pages 930-941.

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    2. Nikos Chatzistamoulou & George Diagourtas & Kostas Kounetas, 2017. "Do pollution abatement expenditures lead to higher productivity growth? Evidence from Greek manufacturing industries," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Springer;Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - SEEPS, vol. 19(1), pages 15-34, January.
    3. Tsurumi, Tetsuya & Managi, Shunsuke & Hibiki, Akira, 2015. "Do Environmental Regulations Increase Bilateral Trade Flows?," MPRA Paper 66321, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Mohd Arshad Ansari, 2025. "Tourism and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross-Country Data with Policy Insights," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 16(1), pages 968-1013, March.
    5. Stergiou, Eirini & Rigas, Nikos & Kounetas, Konstantinos, 2021. "Environmental Productivity and Convergence of European Manufacturing Industries. Are they Under Pressure?," MPRA Paper 110780, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Eirini Stergiou & Kostas Kounetas, 2021. "European Industries’ Energy Efficiency under Different Technological Regimes: The Role of CO2 Emissions, Climate, Path Dependence and Energy Mix," The Energy Journal, , vol. 42(1), pages 93-128, January.
    7. Stergiou, Eirini & Rigas, Nikos & Kounetas, Konstantinos E., 2023. "Environmental productivity growth across European industries," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 123(C).
    8. Sombat Singkharat & Aree Wiboonpongse & Yaovarate Chaovanapoonphol, 2012. "Efficiency of improved peeled longan drying technology in Thailand: A metafrontier approach," The Empirical Econometrics and Quantitative Economics Letters, Faculty of Economics, Chiang Mai University, vol. 1(3), pages 19-32, September.

  29. Kounetas, Kostas & Skuras, Dimitris & Tsekouras, Kostas, 2011. "Promoting energy efficiency policies over the information barrier," Information Economics and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 23(1), pages 72-84, March.

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    1. Valeria Costantini & Mariagrazia D’Angeli & Martina Mancini & Chiara Martini & Elena Paglialunga, 2024. "An Econometric Analysis of the Energy-Saving Performance of the Italian Plastic Manufacturing Sector," Energies, MDPI, vol. 17(4), pages 1-29, February.
    2. Solnørdal, Mette Talseth & Thyholdt, Sverre Braathen, 2019. "Absorptive capacity and energy efficiency in manufacturing firms – An empirical analysis in Norway," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 132(C), pages 978-990.
    3. Mette Talseth Solnørdal & Lene Foss, 2018. "Closing the Energy Efficiency Gap—A Systematic Review of Empirical Articles on Drivers to Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing Firms," Energies, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-30, February.
    4. Christopher Dixon-O’Mara & L. (Lisa B.) Ryan, 2017. "Energy efficiency in the food retail sector: Barriers, drivers, and acceptable policies," Working Papers 201716, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
    5. Jose García-Quevedo & Xavier Massa-Camps, 2019. "Why firms invest (or not) in energy efficiency? A review of the econometric evidence," Working Papers 2019/07, Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB).
    6. Charis Vlados & Dimos Chatzinikolaou & Foteini Kapaltzoglou, 2021. "Energy Market Liberalisation in Greece: Structures, Policy and Prospects," International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Econjournals, vol. 11(2), pages 115-126.

  30. Kounetas, Kostas & Tsekouras, Kostas, 2010. "Are the Energy Efficiency Technologies efficient?," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 27(1), pages 274-283, January.

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    1. You‐How Go & Wee‐Yeap Lau, 2023. "What do we know about informational efficiency? Three puzzles and the new direction forward," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 37(4), pages 1489-1525, September.
    2. Huang, Junbing & Du, Dan & Hao, Yu, 2017. "The driving forces of the change in China's energy intensity: An empirical research using DEA-Malmquist and spatial panel estimations," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 41-50.
    3. Jawadi, Fredj & Ftiti, Zied & Hdia, Mouna, 2017. "Assessing efficiency and investment opportunities in commodities: A time series and portfolio simulations approach," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 567-588.
    4. Simona Bigerna & Maria Chiara D’Errico & Paolo Polinori, 2022. "Sustainable Power Generation in Europe: A Panel Data Analysis of the Effects of Market and Environmental Regulations," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 83(2), pages 445-479, October.
    5. Vassilis Kanellopoulos & Kostas Tsekouras, 2023. "Innovation efficiency and firm performance in a benchmarking context," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 44(1), pages 137-151, January.
    6. Perroni, Marcos G. & Gouvea da Costa, Sergio E. & Pinheiro de Lima, Edson & Vieira da Silva, Wesley, 2017. "The relationship between enterprise efficiency in resource use and energy efficiency practices adoption," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 190(C), pages 108-119.
    7. Lui, Ariel K.H. & Lo, Chris K.Y. & Ngai, Eric W.T. & Yeung, Andy C.L., 2021. "Forced to be green? The performance impact of energy-efficient systems under institutional pressures," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 239(C).
    8. Muhammad Ishfaq Ahmad & Muhammad Akram Naseem & Enrico Battisti & Ramiz Ur Rehman & Guido Giovando, 2025. "Resource‐efficiency actions and financial performance: Exploring the moderating role of production cost," Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 34(1), pages 69-80, January.
    9. Chatzistamoulou, Nikos & Kounetas, Kostas & Tsekouras, Kostas, 2022. "Technological hierarchies and learning: Spillovers, complexity, relatedness, and the moderating role of absorptive capacity," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 183(C).
    10. May, Gökan & Stahl, Bojan & Taisch, Marco, 2016. "Energy management in manufacturing: Toward eco-factories of the future – A focus group study," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 164(C), pages 628-638.
    11. Gerasimos T. Soldatos, 2020. "Technical inefficiency and output scale in banking and industry," Economics and Business Letters, Oviedo University Press, vol. 9(3), pages 270-278.

  31. Tsekouras, Kostas & Papathanassopoulos, Fotis & Kounetas, Kostas & Pappous, Giorgos, 2010. "Does the adoption of new technology boost productive efficiency in the public sector? The case of ICUs system," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 128(1), pages 427-433, November.

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    2. Lin Liu & Honggang Sun, 2019. "The Impact of Collective Forestland Tenure Reform on the Forest Economic Efficiency of Farmers in Zhejiang Province," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-15, April.
    3. Lorena Androutsou & Michail Kokkinos & Dimitra Latsou & Mary Geitona, 2022. "Assessing the Efficiency and Productivity of the Hospital Clinics on the Island of Rhodes during the COVID-19 Pandemic," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(23), pages 1-12, November.
    4. van Dijk, N.M. & van der Sluis, E. & Bulder, L.N. & Cui, Y., 2024. "Flexible serial capacity allocation with intensive care application," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 272(C).
    5. Arocena, Pablo & Oliveros, Diana, 2012. "The efficiency of state-owned and privatized firms: Does ownership make a difference?," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 140(1), pages 457-465.
    6. Chowdhury, Hedayet & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2016. "Performance of hospital services in Ontario: DEA with truncated regression approach," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 63(C), pages 111-122.
    7. Nistor Cristina Silvia & Ștefănescu Cristina Alexandrina & Crișan Andrei-Răzvan, 2017. "Performance Through Efficiency in the Public Healthcare System – A DEA Approach in an Emergent Country," Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Oeconomica, Sciendo, vol. 62(1), pages 31-49, April.
    8. Panagiotis Mitropoulos & Ioannis Mitropoulos & Aris Sissouras, 2013. "Managing for efficiency in health care: the case of Greek public hospitals," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 14(6), pages 929-938, December.
    9. Kounetas, Kostas & Napolitano, Oreste & Stavropoulos, Spyridon & Burger, Martijn, 2018. "European Regional Productive Performance under a Metafrontier Framework. The role of patents and human capital on technology gap?," MPRA Paper 88957, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 17 Jul 2018.
    10. Martijn J. Burger & Kostas Kounetas & Oreste Napolitano & Spyridon Stavropoulos, 2022. "Do innovation and human capital actually narrow the technology gap? Champions and laggards of European regional productive performance," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 56(10), pages 1655-1670, October.
    11. Kostas Kounetas & Fotis Papathanassopoulos, 2013. "How efficient are Greek hospitals? A case study using a double bootstrap DEA approach," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 14(6), pages 979-994, December.
    12. Ya Chen & Justin Wang & Joe Zhu & H. David Sherman & Shin-Yi Chou, 2019. "How the Great Recession affects performance: a case of Pennsylvania hospitals using DEA," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 278(1), pages 77-99, July.
    13. Leleu, Hervé & Moises, James & Valdmanis, Vivian, 2012. "Optimal productive size of hospital's intensive care units," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 136(2), pages 297-305.
    14. Diogo Ferreira & Rui Cunha Marques, 2018. "Identifying congestion levels, sources and determinants on intensive care units: the Portuguese case," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 21(3), pages 348-375, September.
    15. Robert Stefko & Beata Gavurova & Kristina Kocisova, 2018. "Healthcare efficiency assessment using DEA analysis in the Slovak Republic," Health Economics Review, Springer, vol. 8(1), pages 1-12, December.
    16. Lin, Winston T. & Chiang, Chung-Yean, 2011. "The impacts of country characteristics upon the value of information technology as measured by productive efficiency," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 132(1), pages 13-33, July.
    17. Tsekouras, Kostas & Chatzistamoulou, Nikos & Kounetas, Kostas & Broadstock, David C., 2016. "Spillovers, path dependence and the productive performance of European transportation sectors in the presence of technology heterogeneity," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 102(C), pages 261-274.
    18. Zhiguang ZHANG & Haiqing HU & Winston T. LIN, 2019. "Analyzing the Impacts of Unobserved National Characteristics on Economic Performance of Information Technology based on a Partial Adjustment Approach With Dynamic and Variable Speed of Adjustment," Journal for Economic Forecasting, Institute for Economic Forecasting, vol. 0(1), pages 128-142, March.
    19. Massimo Finocchiaro Castro & Calogero Guccio, 2014. "Searching for the source of technical inefficiency in Italian judicial districts: an empirical investigation," European Journal of Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 38(3), pages 369-391, December.
    20. Kounetas, Kostas & Napolitano, Oreste, 2018. "Modeling the incidence of international trade on Italian regional productive efficiency using a meta-frontier DEA approach," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 45-58.
    21. Kounetas, Kostas & Napolitano, Oreste, 2015. "Too much EMU? An investigation of technology gaps," MPRA Paper 67600, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    22. Osei-Mensah, Isaac & Asante, Bright Owusu & Owusu, Victor & Donkor, Emmanuel & Boansi, David, 2021. "Productivity Differences in Small Scale Palm Oil Processors Using Different Processing Technologies in Ghana," 2021 Conference, August 17-31, 2021, Virtual 315850, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    23. Gitto, Simone & Mancuso, Paolo, 2012. "Bootstrapping the Malmquist indexes for Italian airports," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 135(1), pages 403-411.

  32. Kounetas, Konstantinos & Mourtos, Ioannis & Tsekouras, Konstantinos, 2009. "Efficiency decompositions for heterogeneous technologies," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 199(1), pages 209-218, November.

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    1. Economou, Polychronis & Malefaki, Sonia & Kounetas, Konstantinos, 2019. "Productive Performance and Technology Gaps using a Bayesian Metafrontier Production Function: A cross-country comparison," MPRA Paper 94462, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Chi‐Chuan Lee & Tai‐Hsin Huang, 2019. "What Causes The Efficiency And The Technology Gap Under Different Ownership Structures In The Chinese Banking Industry?," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 37(2), pages 332-348, April.
    3. Kounetas, Konstantinos & Stergiou, Eirini, 2019. "Technology heterogeneity in European industries' energy efficiency performance. The role of climate, greenhouse gases, path dependence and energy mix," MPRA Paper 92314, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Torben Schubert & Guoliang Yang, 2016. "Institutional change and the optimal size of universities," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 108(3), pages 1129-1153, September.
    5. Napolitano, Oreste & Foresti, Pasquale & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Spagnolo, Nicola, 2023. "The impact of energy, renewable and CO2 emissions efficiency on countries’ productivity," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 125(C).
    6. Colesnic, Olga & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Michael, Polemis, 2020. "Estimating risk efficiency in Middle East banks before and after the crisis: A metafrontier framework," Global Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 46(C).
    7. Mercedes Beltrán-Esteve & José A. Gómez-Limón & Andrés J. Picazo-Tadeo & Ernest Reig-Martínez, 2012. "A metafrontier directional distance function approach to assessing eco-efficiency," Working Papers 1206, Department of Applied Economics II, Universidad de Valencia.
    8. Casu, Barbara & Ferrari, Alessandra & Girardone, Claudia & Wilson, John O.S., 2016. "Integration, productivity and technological spillovers: Evidence for eurozone banking industries," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 255(3), pages 971-983.
    9. Qianying Jin & Kristiaan Kerstens & Ignace van de Woestyne, 2020. "Metafrontier productivity indices: Questioning the common convexification strategy," Post-Print hal-02496997, HAL.
    10. Tsekouras, Kostas & Chatzistamoulou, Nikos & Kounetas, Kostas, 2017. "Productive performance, technology heterogeneity and hierarchies: Who to compare with whom," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 193(C), pages 465-478.
    11. Areti Gkypali & Kostas Kounetas & Kostas Tsekouras, 2019. "European countries’ competitiveness and productive performance evolution: unraveling the complexity in a heterogeneity context," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 29(2), pages 665-695, April.
    12. Kontolaimou, Alexandra & Tsekouras, Kostas, 2010. "Are cooperatives the weakest link in European banking? A non-parametric metafrontier approach," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 34(8), pages 1946-1957, August.
    13. Bonasia, Mariangela & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Oreste, Napolitano, 2020. "Assessment of regional productive performance of European health systems under a metatechnology framework," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 84(C), pages 234-248.
    14. Kristiaan Kerstens & Christopher O’donnell & Ignace van de Woestyne, 2019. "Metatechnology frontier and convexity: A restatement," Post-Print hal-02108502, HAL.
    15. Chuang-Min Chao & Ming-Miin Yu & Nan-Hsing Hsiung & Li-Hsueh Chen, 2018. "Profitability efficiency, marketability efficiency and technology gaps in Taiwan’s banking industry: meta-frontier network data envelopment analysis," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(3), pages 233-250, January.
    16. 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.
    17. 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.
    18. Martinez-Budria, Eduardo & Diaz-Hernandez, Juan Jose & Jara-Däaz, Sergio, 2011. "Productivity and efficiency with discrete variables and quadratic cost function," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 132(2), pages 251-257, August.
    19. Feder, Christophe, 2018. "The effects of disruptive innovations on productivity," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 126(C), pages 186-193.
    20. Chatzistamoulou, Nikos & Kounetas, Kostas & Tsekouras, Kostas, 2024. "Knowledge flows in Data Envelopment Analysis. The role of peer effects," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 129(C).
    21. Dellnitz, Andreas & Tavana, Madjid, 2024. "Data envelopment analysis: From non-monotonic to monotonic scale elasticities," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 318(2), pages 549-559.
    22. Chatzistamoulou, Nikos & Kounetas, Kostas & Tsekouras, Kostas, 2022. "Technological hierarchies and learning: Spillovers, complexity, relatedness, and the moderating role of absorptive capacity," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 183(C).
    23. Lee, Chi-Chuan & Li, Xinrui & Yu, Chin-Hsien & Zhao, Jinsong, 2021. "Does fintech innovation improve bank efficiency? Evidence from China’s banking industry," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 468-483.
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    25. Kounetas, Konstantinos, 2015. "Heterogeneous technologies, strategic groups and environmental efficiency technology gaps for European countries," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 83(C), pages 277-287.
    26. Kontolaimou, Alexandra & Kounetas, Konstantinos & Mourtos, Ioannis & Tsekouras, Kostas, 2012. "Technology gaps in European banking: Put the blame on inputs or outputs?," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 29(5), pages 1798-1808.
    27. Kounetas, Kostas & Napolitano, Oreste, 2018. "Modeling the incidence of international trade on Italian regional productive efficiency using a meta-frontier DEA approach," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 45-58.
    28. Kounetas, Kostas & Napolitano, Oreste, 2015. "Too much EMU? An investigation of technology gaps," MPRA Paper 67600, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    29. Sombat Singkharat & Aree Wiboonpongse & Yaovarate Chaovanapoonphol, 2012. "Efficiency of improved peeled longan drying technology in Thailand: A metafrontier approach," The Empirical Econometrics and Quantitative Economics Letters, Faculty of Economics, Chiang Mai University, vol. 1(3), pages 19-32, September.

  33. Kounetas, Kostas & Tsekouras, Kostas, 2008. "The energy efficiency paradox revisited through a partial observability approach," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 30(5), pages 2517-2536, September.

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    2. Liu, Xianbing & Niu, Dongjie & Bao, Cunkuan & Suk, Sunhee & Sudo, Kinichi, 2013. "Affordability of energy cost increases for companies due to market-based climate policies: A survey in Taicang, China," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 102(C), pages 1464-1476.
    3. Kounetas, Kostas & Tsekouras, Kostas, 2010. "Are the Energy Efficiency Technologies efficient?," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 27(1), pages 274-283, January.
    4. Kounetas, Konstantinos & Mourtos, Ioannis & Tsekouras, Konstantinos, 2012. "Is energy intensity important for the productivity growth of EET adopters?," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 34(4), pages 930-941.
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    8. Galarraga, Ibon & Kallbekken, Steffen & Silvestri, Alessandro, 2020. "Consumer purchases of energy-efficient cars: How different labelling schemes could affect consumer response to price changes," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 137(C).
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    10. Kounetas, Kostas & Skuras, Dimitris & Tsekouras, Kostas, 2011. "Promoting energy efficiency policies over the information barrier," Information Economics and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 23(1), pages 72-84, March.
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