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Leopold Simar

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Wikipedia or ReplicationWiki mentions

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  1. Byeong U. Park & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2020. "Forecasting of recessions via dynamic probit for time series: replication and extension of Kauppi and Saikkonen (2008)," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 58(1), pages 379-392, January.

    Mentioned in:

    1. Forecasting of recessions via dynamic probit for time series: replication and extension of Kauppi and Saikkonen (2008) (Emp Econ 2020) in ReplicationWiki ()

Working papers

  1. Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin & Zhao, Shirong, 2023. "Further Improvements of Finite Sample Approximation of Central Limit Theorems for Envelopment Estimators," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2023015, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Sokol, Ondřej & Frýd, Lukáš, 2023. "DEA efficiency in agriculture: Measurement unit issues," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).

  2. Pham, Manh D. & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2022. "Statistical Inference for Aggregation of Malmquist Productivity Indices," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022005, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk & Shirong Zhao, 2023. "Statistical Inference for Hicks–Moorsteen Productivity Indices," CEPA Working Papers Series WP082023, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    2. Valentin Zelenyuk & Shirong Zhao, 2023. "Further Improvements of Finite Sample Approximation of Central Limit Theorems for Weighted and Unweighted Malmquist Productivity Indices," CEPA Working Papers Series WP042023, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    3. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk & Shirong Zhao, 2023. "Russell and Slack-Based Measures of Efficiency: A Unifying Framework," CEPA Working Papers Series WP092023, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    4. Samuel Faria & Sofia Gouveia & Alexandre Guedes & João Rebelo, 2021. "Transient and Persistent Efficiency and Spatial Spillovers: Evidence from the Portuguese Wine Industry," Economies, MDPI, vol. 9(3), pages 1-20, August.
    5. Valentin Zelenyuk & Valentyn Panchenko, 2023. "Bayesian Artificial Neural Networks for Frontier Efficiency Analysis," CEPA Working Papers Series WP022023, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    6. Daraio, Cinzia & Di Leo, Simone & Simar, Léopold, 2024. "Conical FDH Estimators of Directional Distances and Luenberger Productivity Indices for General Technologies," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2024009, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

  3. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul, 2022. "Another Look at Productivity Growth in Industrialized Countries," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022028, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Valentin Zelenyuk & Shirong Zhao, 2023. "Further Improvements of Finite Sample Approximation of Central Limit Theorems for Weighted and Unweighted Malmquist Productivity Indices," CEPA Working Papers Series WP042023, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    2. Daraio, Cinzia & Di Leo, Simone & Simar, Léopold, 2024. "Conical FDH Estimators of Directional Distances and Luenberger Productivity Indices for General Technologies," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2024009, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

  4. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Léopold, 2022. "Approximations and Inference for Nonparametric Production Frontiers," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022017, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Daraio, Cinzia & Di Leo, Simone & Simar, Léopold, 2023. "Efficiency of Italian Municipalities and Waste Regulatory Target," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2023018, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

  5. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2021. "Predicting recessions with a frontier measure of output gap: an application to Italian economy," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2021010, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Subal C. Kumbhakarⓡ & Emir Malikovⓡ & Christopher F. Parmeterⓡ, 2021. "Applications of efficiency and productivity analysis: editors’ introduction," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2657-2663, June.

  6. Parmeter, Christopher F. & Simar, Léopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2021. "Inference in the Nonparametric Stochastic Frontier Model," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2021029, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Valentin Zelenyuk & Valentyn Panchenko, 2023. "Bayesian Artificial Neural Networks for Frontier Efficiency Analysis," CEPA Working Papers Series WP022023, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    2. 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.

  7. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul, 2021. "Nonparametric, Stochastic Frontier Models with Multiple Inputs and Outputs," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2021003, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Parmeter, Christopher F. & Simar, Léopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2021. "Inference in the Nonparametric Stochastic Frontier Model," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2021029, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    2. Ahn, Heinz & Clermont, Marcel & Langner, Julia, 2023. "Comparative performance analysis of frontier-based efficiency measurement methods – A Monte Carlo simulation," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 307(1), pages 294-312.
    3. Paul W. Wilson, 2022. "Turbulent Years for U.S. Banks: 2000-20," Review, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, vol. 104(3), pages 189-209, July.
    4. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar, 2022. "Approximations and Inference for Nonparametric Production Frontiers," LEM Papers Series 2022/14, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.

  8. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2021. "Quality as a Latent Heterogeneity Factor in the Efficiency of Universities," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2021011, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Fall, François Seck & Tchakoute Tchuigoua, Hubert & Vanhems, Anne & Simar, Léopold, 2022. "Investigating the unobserved heterogeneity effect on microfinance social efficiency," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022010, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    2. Yunguo Lu & Lin Zhang, 2023. "Environmental information disclosure and firm production: evidence from the estimated efficiency of publicly listed firms in China," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 59(1), pages 99-119, February.
    3. F. S. Fall & H. Tchakoute Tchuigoua & A. Vanhems & L. Simar, 2023. "Investigating the unobserved heterogeneity effect on outreach to women: lessons from microfinance institutions," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 328(2), pages 1365-1386, September.
    4. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul, 2022. "Another Look at Productivity Growth in Industrialized Countries," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022028, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    5. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar, 2022. "Approximations and Inference for Nonparametric Production Frontiers," LEM Papers Series 2022/14, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    6. Sun, Yu & Yang, Feng & Wang, Dawei & Ang, Sheng, 2023. "Efficiency evaluation for higher education institutions in China considering unbalanced regional development: A meta-frontier Super-SBM model," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    7. Thyago C. C. Nepomuceno & Cinzia Daraio & Ana Paula C. S. Costa, 2021. "Multicriteria Ranking for the Efficient and Effective Assessment of Police Departments," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(8), pages 1-15, April.
    8. Agasisti, Tommaso & Egorov, Aleksei & Serebrennikov, Pavel, 2023. "Universities’ efficiency and the socioeconomic characteristics of their environment — Evidence from an empirical analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).

  9. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Léopold, 2021. "Latent heterogeneity to evaluate the effect of human capital on world technology frontier," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2021009, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. F. S. Fall & H. Tchakoute Tchuigoua & A. Vanhems & L. Simar, 2023. "Investigating the unobserved heterogeneity effect on outreach to women: lessons from microfinance institutions," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 328(2), pages 1365-1386, September.
    2. Yulia Gruzina & Irina Firsova & Wadim Strielkowski, 2021. "Dynamics of Human Capital Development in Economic Development Cycles," Economies, MDPI, vol. 9(2), pages 1-18, May.
    3. Rouven E. Haschka & Helmut Herwartz, 2022. "Endogeneity in pharmaceutical knowledge generation: An instrument‐free copula approach for Poisson frontier models," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 31(4), pages 942-960, November.
    4. Lovlyn Ekeowa Kelvin-Iloafu & Francis Ezieshi Monyei & Wilfred Isioma Ukpere & Happiness Ozioma Obi-Anike & Phina Njideka Onyekwelu, 2023. "The Impact of Human Capital Development on the Sustainability and Innovativeness of Deposit Money Banks’ Workforces," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(14), pages 1-15, July.
    5. Katherine Wynn & Mingji Liu & Jasmine Cohen, 2022. "Quantifying the economy‐wide returns to innovation for Australia," Australian Economic Papers, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 61(3), pages 591-614, September.
    6. Kassoum Ayouba, 2023. "Spatial dependence in production frontier models," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(1), pages 21-36, August.
    7. Zhao Li & Yujing Chu & Hang Fang, 2022. "Hierarchical Education Investment and Economic Growth in China," SAGE Open, , vol. 12(2), pages 21582440221, June.
    8. Irena Lacka & Lukasz Brzezicki, 2021. "The Efficiency and Productivity Evaluation of National Innovation Systems in Europe," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(Special 3), pages 471-496.

  10. Fall, François Seck & Tchuigoua, Hubert Tchakoute & Vanhems, Anne & Simar, Léopold, 2020. "Gender effect on microfinance social efficiency: A robust nonparametric approach," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2020033, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Fall, François Seck & Tchakoute Tchuigoua, Hubert & Vanhems, Anne & Simar, Léopold, 2022. "Investigating the unobserved heterogeneity effect on microfinance social efficiency," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022010, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    2. F. S. Fall & H. Tchakoute Tchuigoua & A. Vanhems & L. Simar, 2023. "Investigating the unobserved heterogeneity effect on outreach to women: lessons from microfinance institutions," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 328(2), pages 1365-1386, September.
    3. Raheel Mumtaz & Muhammad Farooq Rehan & Quaisar Ijaz Khan & Rubab Zaidi, 2021. "Board Gender Diversity, Firm Performance and Risk-Taking: The Case of Non-Financial Firms of Pakistan," iRASD Journal of Economics, International Research Alliance for Sustainable Development (iRASD), vol. 3(3), pages 354-367, December.
    4. François Fall & Thanh Tam Nguyen-Huu, 2022. "Strategic Behavior between a Bank and A Microfinance Institution: The Role of Psychological Distance and Education Level," Post-Print hal-04248194, HAL.

  11. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2020. "Improving Finite Sample Approximation by Central Limit Theorems for Estimates from Data Envelopment Analysis," CEPA Working Papers Series WP012020, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.

    Cited by:

    1. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Data Sharpening for improving CLT approximations for DEA-type efficiency estimators," CEPA Working Papers Series WP142021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    2. Nguyen, Bao Hoang & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2022. "Data sharpening for improving central limit theorem approximations for data envelopment analysis–type efficiency estimators," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(3), pages 1469-1480.
    3. Monge, Juan F. & Ruiz, José L., 2023. "Setting closer targets based on non-dominated convex combinations of Pareto-efficient units: A bi-level linear programming approach in Data Envelopment Analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 311(3), pages 1084-1096.
    4. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Hypothesis Testing in Nonparametric Models of Production using Multiple Sample Splits," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2019019, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    5. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Aggregate efficiency of industry and its groups: the case of Queensland public hospitals," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2795-2836, June.
    6. Tsionas, Mike G., 2023. "Combining data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontiers via a LASSO prior," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 304(3), pages 1158-1166.
    7. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk & Shirong Zhao, 2023. "Inference for Aggregate Efficiency: Theory and Guidelines for Practitioners," CEPA Working Papers Series WP032023, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    8. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk & Shirong Zhao, 2022. "Further Improvements of Finite Sample Approximation of Central Limit Theorems for Envelopment Estimators," CEPA Working Papers Series WP062022, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    9. Alizadeh, Reza & Gharizadeh Beiragh, Ramin & Soltanisehat, Leili & Soltanzadeh, Elham & Lund, Peter D., 2020. "Performance evaluation of complex electricity generation systems: A dynamic network-based data envelopment analysis approach," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
    10. 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.
    11. Kekui Chen & Jianming Fu & Yun Gong & Jian Wang & Shilin Lv & Yajie Liu & Jingyun Li, 2022. "Study on the Influencing Factors of CO 2 from the Perspective of CO 2 Mitigation Potentials," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(15), pages 1-22, July.
    12. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Robin C. Sickles & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2022. "Efficiency Analysis with Stochastic Frontier Models Using Popular Statistical Softwares," Springer Books, in: Duangkamon Chotikapanich & Alicia N. Rambaldi & Nicholas Rohde (ed.), Advances in Economic Measurement, chapter 0, pages 129-171, Springer.
    13. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Performance Analysis: Economic Foundations & Trends," CEPA Working Papers Series WP162021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    14. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Robin C. Sickles & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "What do we know from the vast literature on efficiency and productivity in healthcare? A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis," CEPA Working Papers Series WP092021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    15. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Performance Analysis: Economic Foundations and Trends," Foundations and Trends(R) in Econometrics, now publishers, vol. 11(3), pages 153-229, September.

  12. Cinzia Daraio & Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2019. "Quality and its Impact on Efficiency," DIAG Technical Reports 2019-01, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza".

    Cited by:

    1. Jose M. Cordero & Cristina Polo & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2020. "Evaluating the efficiency of municipalities in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 53(3), pages 377-390, June.
    2. Thyago Celso Cavalcante Nepomuceno & Katarina Tatiana Marques Santiago & Cinzia Daraio & Ana Paula Cabral Seixas Costa, 2022. "Exogenous crimes and the assessment of public safety efficiency and effectiveness," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 316(2), pages 1349-1382, September.

  13. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Hypothesis Testing in Nonparametric Models of Production using Multiple Sample Splits," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2019019, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Frédérique Fève & Jean-Pierre Florens & Léopold Simar, 2023. "Proportional incremental cost probability functions and their frontiers," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 64(6), pages 2721-2756, June.
    2. Paul W. Wilson & Shirong Zhao, 2023. "Investigating the performance of Chinese banks over 2007–2014," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 321(1), pages 663-692, February.
    3. Yunguo Lu & Lin Zhang, 2023. "Environmental information disclosure and firm production: evidence from the estimated efficiency of publicly listed firms in China," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 59(1), pages 99-119, February.
    4. Łukasz Brzezicki, 2020. "The Efficiency of Public and Private Higher Education Institutions in Poland," Gospodarka Narodowa. The Polish Journal of Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, issue 4, pages 33-51.
    5. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2021. "Quality as a latent heterogeneity factor in the efficiency of universities," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
    6. Heidenreich, Anja & Grovermann, Christian & Kadzere, Irene & Egyir, Irene S. & Muriuki, Anne & Bandanaa, Joseph & Clottey, Joseph & Ndungu, John & Blockeel, Johan & Muller, Adrian & Stolze, Matthias &, 2022. "Sustainable intensification pathways in Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing eco-efficiency of smallholder perennial cash crop production," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 195(C).
    7. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Data Sharpening for improving CLT approximations for DEA-type efficiency estimators," CEPA Working Papers Series WP142021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    8. Weihua Su & Zhen Wang & Chonghui Zhang & Tomas Balezentis, 2023. "Determinants of the innovation efficiency of strategic emerging enterprises: evidence from the robust frontiers," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 56(3), pages 1433-1465, June.
    9. Nguyen, Bao Hoang & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2022. "Data sharpening for improving central limit theorem approximations for data envelopment analysis–type efficiency estimators," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(3), pages 1469-1480.
    10. Finocchiaro Castro, Massimo & Guccio, Calogero & Rizzo, Ilde, 2023. "How "one-size-fits-all" public works contract does it better? An assessment of infrastructure provision in Italy," EconStor Preprints 270729, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    11. José Solana‐Ibáñez & Manuel Caravaca‐Garratón, 2021. "Stakeholder engagement and corporate social reputation: The influence of exogenous factors on efficiency performance (stakeholder engagement and exogenous factors): Stakeholder engagement and exogenou," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 28(6), pages 1891-1905, November.
    12. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Aggregate efficiency of industry and its groups: the case of Queensland public hospitals," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2795-2836, June.
    13. Daniel Ofori-Sasu & John Kuwornu & Gloria Clarissa Dzeha & Baah Aye Kusi, 2022. "Risk behaviour and insurance efficiency: the role of ownership and regulations from an emerging economies," SN Business & Economics, Springer, vol. 2(7), pages 1-30, July.
    14. Bigerna, Simona & D'Errico, Maria Chiara & Polinori, Paolo, 2022. "Environmental variables and power firms' productivity: micro panel estimation with time-Invariant variables," MPRA Paper 114157, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    15. Schubert, Torben & Kroll, Henning & Chavez, Cecilia Garcia, 2023. "The effects of sustainability orientation on research and teaching efficiency in German universities," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    16. Caitlin T. O’Loughlin & Paul W. Wilson, 2021. "Benchmarking the performance of US Municipalities," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2665-2700, June.
    17. 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.
    18. Lisciandra, Maurizio & Milani, Riccardo & Millemaci, Emanuele, 2022. "A corruption risk indicator for public procurement," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 73(C).
    19. Alexandre Marinho & Claudia Affonso Silva Araújo, 2021. "Using data envelopment analysis and the bootstrap method to evaluate organ transplantation efficiency in Brazil," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 24(3), pages 569-581, September.
    20. Guangshun Qiao & Zhan-ao Wang, 2021. "Vertical integration vs. specialization: a nonparametric conditional efficiency estimate for the global semiconductor industry," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 56(2), pages 139-150, December.
    21. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar, 2022. "Approximations and Inference for Nonparametric Production Frontiers," LEM Papers Series 2022/14, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    22. Xie, Qiwei & Xu, Qifan & Chen, Lifan & Jin, Xi & Li, Siqi & Li, Yongjun, 2022. "Efficiency evaluation of China's listed commercial banks based on a multi-period leader-follower model," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 110(C).
    23. López-Herrera, Carmen & Cordero, José M. & Pedraja-Chaparro, Francisco & Polo, Cristina, 2023. "Fiscal rules and their influence on public sector efficiency," MPRA Paper 119018, University Library of Munich, Germany.

  14. Florens, Jean-Pierre & Simar, Leopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid, 2018. "Estimation of the Boundary of a Variable observed with Symmetric Error," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018008, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Oleg Badunenko & Daniel J. Henderson, 2024. "Production analysis with asymmetric noise," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 61(1), pages 1-18, February.
    2. Caitlin O’Loughlin & Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2023. "Methodologies for assessing government efficiency," Chapters, in: António Afonso & João Tovar Jalles & Ana Venâncio (ed.), Handbook on Public Sector Efficiency, chapter 4, pages 72-101, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    3. Kamil Makieła & Błażej Mazur, 2022. "Model uncertainty and efficiency measurement in stochastic frontier analysis with generalized errors," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 58(1), pages 35-54, August.
    4. Kamil Makieła & Błażej Mazur, 2020. "Bayesian Model Averaging and Prior Sensitivity in Stochastic Frontier Analysis," Econometrics, MDPI, vol. 8(2), pages 1-22, April.
    5. William C. Horrace & Yulong Wang, 2022. "Nonparametric tests of tail behavior in stochastic frontier models," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 37(3), pages 537-562, April.
    6. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul, 2021. "Nonparametric, Stochastic Frontier Models with Multiple Inputs and Outputs," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2021003, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    7. Kamil Makie{l}a & B{l}a.zej Mazur, 2020. "Stochastic Frontier Analysis with Generalized Errors: inference, model comparison and averaging," Papers 2003.07150, arXiv.org, revised Oct 2020.
    8. Jun Cai & William C. Horrace & Christopher F. Parmeter, 2024. "Penalized sieve estimation of zero‐inefficiency stochastic frontiers," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 39(1), pages 41-65, January.

  15. Luiza Badin & Cinzia Daraio & Léopold Simar, 2018. "A Bootstrap Approach for Bandwidth Selection in Estimating Conditional Efficiency Measures," DIAG Technical Reports 2018-02, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza".

    Cited by:

    1. Geraldo Souza & Eliane Gonçalves Gomes & Eliseu Roberto Alves, 2022. "Two-part fractional regression model with conditional FDH responses: an application to Brazilian agriculture," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 314(2), pages 393-409, July.
    2. Yunguo Lu & Lin Zhang, 2023. "Environmental information disclosure and firm production: evidence from the estimated efficiency of publicly listed firms in China," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 59(1), pages 99-119, February.
    3. Noah J Miller & Jason S Bergtold & Allen M Featherstone, 2019. "Economic elasticities of input substitution using data envelopment analysis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(8), pages 1-15, August.
    4. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Léopold, 2021. "Latent heterogeneity to evaluate the effect of human capital on world technology frontier," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2021009, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    5. Jose M. Cordero & Cristina Polo & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2020. "Evaluating the efficiency of municipalities in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 53(3), pages 377-390, June.
    6. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2021. "Quality as a latent heterogeneity factor in the efficiency of universities," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
    7. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2021. "Predicting recessions with a frontier measure of output gap: an application to Italian economy," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2021010, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    8. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Quality and its impact on efficiency," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2019004, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    9. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Léopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid, 2022. "Estimating Nonparametric Conditional Frontiers and Efficiencies: A New Approach," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022035, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    10. Camilla Mastromarco & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2019. "Predicting Recessions: A New Measure of Output Gap as Predictor," CEPA Working Papers Series WP112019, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    11. Arabmaldar, A. & Sahoo, B.K. & Ghiyasi, M., 2023. "A generalized robust data envelopment analysis model based on directional distance function," Publications of Darmstadt Technical University, Institute for Business Studies (BWL) 138962, Darmstadt Technical University, Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law, Institute for Business Studies (BWL).
    12. Ye Wang & Yunguo Lu & Lin Zhang, 2021. "Opportunity Cost of Environmental Regulation in China’s Industrial Sector," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(16), pages 1-19, August.
    13. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul, 2022. "Modern Tools for Evaluating the Performance of Health-Care Providers," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022006, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    14. Cordero, Jose Manuel & Polo, Cristina & Simancas, Rosa, 2022. "Assessing the efficiency of secondary schools: Evidence from OECD countries participating in PISA 2015," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    15. Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2019. "Technological change, technological catch-up and export orientation: evidence from Latin American Countries," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 52(1), pages 85-100, December.
    16. Wang, Ching-Hsin & Chen, Kuen-Suan, 2020. "New process yield index of asymmetric tolerances for bootstrap method and six sigma approach," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 219(C), pages 216-223.
    17. Julian Ramajo & Miguel A. Marquez & Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, 2021. "Addressing spatial dependence in technical efficiency estimation: A Spatial DEA frontier approach," Papers 2103.14063, arXiv.org.
    18. Michael L. Polemis & Thanasis Stengos & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2020. "Modeling the effect of competition on US manufacturing sectors’ efficiency: an order-m frontier analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 54(1), pages 27-41, August.
    19. Patricia Laurens & Pierluigi Toma & Antoine Schoen & Cinzia Daraio & Philippe Larédo, 2023. "How does Internationalisation affect the productivity of R&D activities in large innovative firms? A conditional nonparametric investigation," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 57(2), pages 1079-1100, April.
    20. Patricia Laurens & Pierluigi Toma & Antoine Schoen & Cinzia Daraio & Philippe Larédo, 2022. "How does Internationalisation affect the productivity of R&D activities in large innovative firms? A conditional nonparametric investigation," Post-Print hal-03840316, HAL.
    21. Polemis, Michael L. & Stengos, Thanasis & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2020. "Advertising expenses and operational performance: Evidence from the global hotel industry," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 192(C).
    22. Sushanta Mallick & Aarti Rughoo & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes & Wei Xu, 2020. "Technological Change and Catching-Up in the Indian Banking Sector: A Time-Dependent Nonparametric Frontier Approach," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 56(1), pages 217-237, June.
    23. Guangshun Qiao & Zhan-ao Wang, 2021. "Vertical integration vs. specialization: a nonparametric conditional efficiency estimate for the global semiconductor industry," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 56(2), pages 139-150, December.
    24. Adel Hatami-Marbini & Aliasghar Arabmaldar & John Otu Asu, 2022. "Robust productivity growth and efficiency measurement with undesirable outputs: evidence from the oil industry," OR Spectrum: Quantitative Approaches in Management, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V., vol. 44(4), pages 1213-1254, December.
    25. da Silva e Souza, Geraldo & Gomes, Eliane Gonçalves, 2023. "Assessing the influence of external factors on agricultural production in Brazil," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    26. Agasisti, Tommaso & Egorov, Aleksei & Serebrennikov, Pavel, 2023. "Universities’ efficiency and the socioeconomic characteristics of their environment — Evidence from an empirical analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    27. Thyago Celso Cavalcante Nepomuceno & Katarina Tatiana Marques Santiago & Cinzia Daraio & Ana Paula Cabral Seixas Costa, 2022. "Exogenous crimes and the assessment of public safety efficiency and effectiveness," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 316(2), pages 1349-1382, September.

  16. Park, Byeong U. & Simar, Leopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2018. "Forecasting of Recessions via Dynamic Probit for Time Series: Replication and Extension of Kauppi and Saikkonen (2008)," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018004, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Jean-Baptiste Hasse & Quentin Lajaunie, 2020. "Does the Yield Curve Signal Recessions? New Evidence from an International Panel Data Analysis," AMSE Working Papers 2013, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France.
    2. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2021. "Predicting recessions with a frontier measure of output gap: an application to Italian economy," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2021010, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

  17. Kneip, Alois & Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2018. "Inference in Dynamic, Nonparametric Models of Production: Central Limit Theorems for Malmquist Indices," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018010, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2023. "Productivity analysis: roots, foundations, trends and perspectives," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(3), pages 229-247, December.
    2. Paul W. Wilson & Shirong Zhao, 2023. "Investigating the performance of Chinese banks over 2007–2014," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 321(1), pages 663-692, February.
    3. Qianying Jin & Kristiaan Kerstens & Ignace van de Woestyne, 2020. "Metafrontier productivity indices: Questioning the common convexification strategy," Post-Print hal-02496997, HAL.
    4. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2018. "Improving Finite Sample Approximation by Central Limit Theorems for DEA and FDH efficiency scores," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072018, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    5. Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2020. "Improving finite sample approximation by central limit theorems for estimates from Data Envelopment Analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 284(3), pages 1002-1015.
    6. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Hypothesis Testing in Nonparametric Models of Production using Multiple Sample Splits," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2019019, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    7. Mette Asmild & Dorte Kronborg & Anders Rønn-Nielsen, 2018. "Testing productivity change, frontier shift, and efficiency change," IFRO Working Paper 2018/07, University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics.
    8. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul, 2022. "Another Look at Productivity Growth in Industrialized Countries," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022028, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    9. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk & Shirong Zhao, 2022. "Further Improvements of Finite Sample Approximation of Central Limit Theorems for Envelopment Estimators," CEPA Working Papers Series WP062022, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    10. Arocena, Pablo & Saal, David S. & Urakami, Takuya & Zschille, Michael, 2020. "Measuring and decomposing productivity change in the presence of mergers," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 282(1), pages 319-333.
    11. Robin C. Sickles, 2023. "Special Symposium on Lifetime Achievements of Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(3), pages 227-228, December.
    12. Pham, Manh D. & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2022. "Statistical Inference for Aggregation of Malmquist Productivity Indices," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022005, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    13. Daraio, Cinzia & Di Leo, Simone & Simar, Léopold, 2024. "Conical FDH Estimators of Directional Distances and Luenberger Productivity Indices for General Technologies," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2024009, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

  18. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Leopold, 2018. "Globalization and productivity: A robust nonparametric world frontier analysis," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2018008, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Richard Gearhart & Nyakundi Michieka, 2020. "A non-parametric investigation of supply side factors and healthcare efficiency in the U.S," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 54(1), pages 59-74, August.
    2. Michael L. Polemis, 2020. "A note on the estimation of competition-productivity nexus: a panel quantile approach," Economia e Politica Industriale: Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Springer;Associazione Amici di Economia e Politica Industriale, vol. 47(4), pages 663-676, December.
    3. José Manuel Cordero & Carlos Díaz Caro & Francisco Pedraja Chaparro & Cristina Polo Fernández, 2020. "Tributos cedidos y eficiencia en la gestión tributaria de las Comunidades Autónomas," Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, IEF, vol. 232(1), pages 75-112, March.
    4. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2021. "Quality as a latent heterogeneity factor in the efficiency of universities," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
    5. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2021. "Predicting recessions with a frontier measure of output gap: an application to Italian economy," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2021010, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    6. Camilla Mastromarco & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2019. "Predicting Recessions: A New Measure of Output Gap as Predictor," CEPA Working Papers Series WP112019, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    7. Gearhart, Richard S. & Michieka, Nyakundi M., 2018. "A comparison of the robust conditional order-m estimation and two stage DEA in measuring healthcare efficiency among California counties," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 395-406.
    8. Cordero, Jose Manuel & Polo, Cristina & Simancas, Rosa, 2022. "Assessing the efficiency of secondary schools: Evidence from OECD countries participating in PISA 2015," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    9. Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2019. "Technological change, technological catch-up and export orientation: evidence from Latin American Countries," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 52(1), pages 85-100, December.
    10. Makiela, Kamil & Ouattara, Bazoumana, 2018. "Foreign direct investment and economic growth: Exploring the transmission channels," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 72(C), pages 296-305.
    11. Michael L. Polemis & Thanasis Stengos & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2020. "Modeling the effect of competition on US manufacturing sectors’ efficiency: an order-m frontier analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 54(1), pages 27-41, August.
    12. Gearhart, Richard & Michieka, Nyakundi, 2019. "Natural resource abundance and healthcare efficiency in Appalachia: A robust conditional approach," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 129(C), pages 985-996.
    13. Kassoum Ayouba, 2023. "Spatial dependence in production frontier models," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(1), pages 21-36, August.
    14. Sushanta Mallick & Aarti Rughoo & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes & Wei Xu, 2020. "Technological Change and Catching-Up in the Indian Banking Sector: A Time-Dependent Nonparametric Frontier Approach," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 56(1), pages 217-237, June.
    15. 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.

  19. Simar, Leopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2018. "Central Limit Theorems for Aggregate Efficiency," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2018010, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2023. "Productivity analysis: roots, foundations, trends and perspectives," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(3), pages 229-247, December.
    2. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2020. "Robust efficiency analysis of public hospitals in Queensland, Australia," CEPA Working Papers Series WP052020, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    3. Valentin Zelenyuk & Shirong Zhao, 2023. "Further Improvements of Finite Sample Approximation of Central Limit Theorems for Weighted and Unweighted Malmquist Productivity Indices," CEPA Working Papers Series WP042023, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    4. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Quality and its impact on efficiency," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2019004, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    5. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2019. "Aggregation of Efficiency and Productivity: From Firm to Sector and Higher Levels," CEPA Working Papers Series WP062019, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    6. Sokol, Ondřej & Frýd, Lukáš, 2023. "DEA efficiency in agriculture: Measurement unit issues," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
    7. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2018. "Improving Finite Sample Approximation by Central Limit Theorems for DEA and FDH efficiency scores," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072018, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    8. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Data Sharpening for improving CLT approximations for DEA-type efficiency estimators," CEPA Working Papers Series WP142021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    9. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2018. "Technical, Allocative and Overall Efficiency: Inference and Hypothesis Testing," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018018, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    10. Nguyen, Bao Hoang & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2022. "Data sharpening for improving central limit theorem approximations for data envelopment analysis–type efficiency estimators," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(3), pages 1469-1480.
    11. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk & Shirong Zhao, 2023. "Russell and Slack-Based Measures of Efficiency: A Unifying Framework," CEPA Working Papers Series WP092023, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    12. Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2020. "Improving finite sample approximation by central limit theorems for estimates from Data Envelopment Analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 284(3), pages 1002-1015.
    13. Valentin Zelenyuk & Valentyn Panchenko, 2023. "Bayesian Artificial Neural Networks for Frontier Efficiency Analysis," CEPA Working Papers Series WP022023, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    14. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2018. "Some Mathematical and Historical Clarifications on Aggregation in Efficiency and Productivity Analysis and Connection to Economic Theory," CEPA Working Papers Series WP032018, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    15. Cherchye, Laurens & De Rock, Bram & Dierynck, Bart & Kerstens, Pieter Jan & Roodhooft, Filip, 2023. "A DEA-based approach to customer value analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 308(3), pages 1319-1331.
    16. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Aggregate efficiency of industry and its groups: the case of Queensland public hospitals," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2795-2836, June.
    17. Mike Tsionas & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Goodness-of-fit in Optimizing Models of Production: A Generalization with a Bayesian Perspective," CEPA Working Papers Series WP182021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    18. Sickles, Robin C. & Song, Wonho & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2018. "Econometric Analysis of Productivity: Theory and Implementation in R," Working Papers 18-008, Rice University, Department of Economics.
    19. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk & Shirong Zhao, 2022. "Further Improvements of Finite Sample Approximation of Central Limit Theorems for Envelopment Estimators," CEPA Working Papers Series WP062022, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    20. Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin & Zhao, Shirong, 2024. "Central Limit Theorems for Directional Distance Functions with and without Undesirable Outputs," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2024010, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    21. 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.
    22. Pham, Manh D. & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2022. "Statistical Inference for Aggregation of Malmquist Productivity Indices," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022005, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    23. Rolf Färe & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Sequential data envelopment analysis," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 300(1), pages 307-312, May.
    24. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2019. "Data Envelopment Analysis and Business Analytics: The Big Data Challenges and Some Solutions," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072019, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    25. Emil Heesche & Mette Asmild, 2022. "Implications of Aggregation Uncertainty in DEA," IFRO Working Paper 2022/02, University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics.
    26. Daraio, Cinzia & Di Leo, Simone & Simar, Léopold, 2024. "Conical FDH Estimators of Directional Distances and Luenberger Productivity Indices for General Technologies," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2024009, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    27. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2020. "Technical, allocative and overall efficiency: Estimation and inference," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 282(3), pages 1164-1176.
    28. Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2020. "Aggregation of inputs and outputs prior to Data Envelopment Analysis under big data," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 282(1), pages 172-187.
    29. Rolf Färe & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2019. "Data Envelopment Analysis and Sequences in Hilbert Spaces," CEPA Working Papers Series WP132019, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    30. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Performance Analysis: Economic Foundations & Trends," CEPA Working Papers Series WP162021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    31. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Performance Analysis: Economic Foundations and Trends," Foundations and Trends(R) in Econometrics, now publishers, vol. 11(3), pages 153-229, September.

  20. Daouia, Abdelaati & Florens, Jean-Pierre & Simar, Leopold, 2018. "Robustified expected maximum production frontiers," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018003, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Abdelaati Daouia & Jean-Pierre Florens & Léopold Simar, 2020. "Robust frontier estimation from noisy data: a Tikhonov regularization approach," Post-Print hal-02573853, HAL.

  21. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2018. "Central limit theorems for conditional efficiency measures and tests of the ‘separability’ condition in non-parametric, two-stage models of production," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2018023, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Caitlin O’Loughlin & Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2023. "Methodologies for assessing government efficiency," Chapters, in: António Afonso & João Tovar Jalles & Ana Venâncio (ed.), Handbook on Public Sector Efficiency, chapter 4, pages 72-101, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. Frédérique Fève & Jean-Pierre Florens & Léopold Simar, 2023. "Proportional incremental cost probability functions and their frontiers," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 64(6), pages 2721-2756, June.
    3. Geraldo Souza & Eliane Gonçalves Gomes & Eliseu Roberto Alves, 2022. "Two-part fractional regression model with conditional FDH responses: an application to Brazilian agriculture," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 314(2), pages 393-409, July.
    4. Jose M. Cordero & Cristina Polo & Daniel Santín, 2020. "Assessment of new methods for incorporating contextual variables into efficiency measures: a Monte Carlo simulation," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 20(4), pages 2245-2265, December.
    5. Sergio Destefanis & Francesco Addesa & Giambattista Rossi, 2022. "The impact of COVID-19 on home advantage: a conditional order-m analysis of football clubs’ efficiency in the top-5 European leagues," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(58), pages 6639-6655, December.
    6. Heidenreich, Anja & Grovermann, Christian & Kadzere, Irene & Egyir, Irene S. & Muriuki, Anne & Bandanaa, Joseph & Clottey, Joseph & Ndungu, John & Blockeel, Johan & Muller, Adrian & Stolze, Matthias &, 2022. "Sustainable intensification pathways in Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing eco-efficiency of smallholder perennial cash crop production," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 195(C).
    7. Fukuyama, Hirofumi & Matousek, Roman & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2023. "Estimating the degree of firms’ input market power via data envelopment analysis: Evidence from the global biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 305(2), pages 946-960.
    8. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Léopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid, 2022. "Estimating Nonparametric Conditional Frontiers and Efficiencies: A New Approach," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022035, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    9. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Data Sharpening for improving CLT approximations for DEA-type efficiency estimators," CEPA Working Papers Series WP142021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    10. Ye Wang & Yunguo Lu & Lin Zhang, 2021. "Opportunity Cost of Environmental Regulation in China’s Industrial Sector," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(16), pages 1-19, August.
    11. Nguyen, Bao Hoang & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2022. "Data sharpening for improving central limit theorem approximations for data envelopment analysis–type efficiency estimators," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(3), pages 1469-1480.
    12. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul, 2022. "Modern Tools for Evaluating the Performance of Health-Care Providers," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022006, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    13. Pierluigi Toma, 2020. "Size and productivity: a conditional approach for Italian pharmaceutical sector," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 54(1), pages 1-12, August.
    14. Vesterberg, Mattias & Zhou, Wenchao & Lundgren, Tommy, 2021. "Wind of change: Small-scale electricity production and distribution-grid efficiency in Sweden," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 69(C).
    15. Zhu, Liyun & Schneider, Kevin & Oude Lansink, Alfons, 2023. "Economic, environmental, and social inefficiency assessment of Dutch dairy farms based on the dynamic by-production model," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 311(3), pages 1134-1145.
    16. Engida, Tadesse Getacher & Rao, Xudong & Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M., 2020. "A dynamic by-production framework for analyzing inefficiency associated with corporate social responsibility," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 287(3), pages 1170-1179.
    17. Faten Ben Bouheni & Hassan Obeid & Elena Margarint, 2022. "Nonperforming loan of European Islamic banks over the economic cycle," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 313(2), pages 773-808, June.
    18. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2018. "Fast and Efficient Computation of Directional Distance Estimators," LEM Papers Series 2018/21, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    19. Nicola Galluzzo, 2021. "Estimation of the impact of CAP subsidies as environmental variables on Romanian farms," Economia agro-alimentare, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 23(3), pages 1-24.
    20. Thyago Celso Cavalcante Nepomuceno & Késsia Thais Cavalcanti Nepomuceno & Fabiano Carlos da Silva & Silas Garrido Teixeira de Carvalho Santos, 2023. "Quantifying Webpage Performance: A Comparative Analysis of TCP/IP and QUIC Communication Protocols for Improved Efficiency," Data, MDPI, vol. 8(8), pages 1-14, August.
    21. Christopher F. Parmeter & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2019. "Combining the Virtues of Stochastic Frontier and Data Envelopment Analysis," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 67(6), pages 1628-1658, November.
    22. Kneip, Alois & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2022. "Conical FDH Estimators of General Technologies, with Applications to Returns to Scale and Malmquist Productivity Indices," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022024, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    23. Michael L. Polemis & Thanasis Stengos & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2020. "Modeling the effect of competition on US manufacturing sectors’ efficiency: an order-m frontier analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 54(1), pages 27-41, August.
    24. Bigerna, Simona & D'Errico, Maria Chiara & Polinori, Paolo, 2022. "Environmental variables and power firms' productivity: micro panel estimation with time-Invariant variables," MPRA Paper 114157, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    25. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul, 2022. "Another Look at Productivity Growth in Industrialized Countries," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022028, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    26. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk & Shirong Zhao, 2022. "Further Improvements of Finite Sample Approximation of Central Limit Theorems for Envelopment Estimators," CEPA Working Papers Series WP062022, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    27. Calogero Guccio & Marco Ferdinando Martorana & Isidoro Mazza & Giacomo Pignataro & Ilde Rizzo, 2020. "Is innovation in ICT valuable for the efficiency of Italian museums?," ACEI Working Paper Series AWP-01-2020, Association for Cultural Economics International, revised Dec 2020.
    28. Ioannis E. Tsolas, 2021. "Efficiency and Determinants of Capital Structure in the Greek Pharmaceutical, Cosmetic and Detergent Industries," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 14(12), pages 1-13, December.
    29. Caitlin T. O’Loughlin & Paul W. Wilson, 2021. "Benchmarking the performance of US Municipalities," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2665-2700, June.
    30. Benito, Bernardino & Guillamón, María-Dolores & Martínez-Córdoba, Pedro-José, 2020. "Determinants of efficiency improvement in the Spanish public lighting sector," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 64(C).
    31. 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.
    32. Lisciandra, Maurizio & Milani, Riccardo & Millemaci, Emanuele, 2022. "A corruption risk indicator for public procurement," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 73(C).
    33. Ioannis E. Tsolas, 2020. "Financial Performance Assessment of Construction Firms by Means of RAM-Based Composite Indicators," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 8(8), pages 1-16, August.
    34. Benito, Bernardino & Martínez-Córdoba, Pedro-José & Guillamón, María-Dolores, 2021. "Measurement and determinants of efficiency in the municipal police service," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    35. Polemis, Michael L. & Stengos, Thanasis & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2020. "Advertising expenses and operational performance: Evidence from the global hotel industry," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 192(C).
    36. López-Torres, Laura & Johnes, Jill & Elliott, Caroline & Polo, Cristina, 2021. "The effects of competition and collaboration on efficiency in the UK independent school sector," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 40-53.
    37. Guangshun Qiao & Zhan-ao Wang, 2021. "Vertical integration vs. specialization: a nonparametric conditional efficiency estimate for the global semiconductor industry," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 56(2), pages 139-150, December.
    38. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar, 2022. "Approximations and Inference for Nonparametric Production Frontiers," LEM Papers Series 2022/14, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    39. Mohamed Mehdi Jelassi & Ezzeddine Delhoumi, 2021. "What explains the technical efficiency of banks in Tunisia? Evidence from a two-stage data envelopment analysis," Financial Innovation, Springer;Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, vol. 7(1), pages 1-26, December.
    40. Bulut, Hasan, 2020. "The construction of a composite index for general satisfaction in Turkey and the investigation of its determinants," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
    41. Falavigna, G. & Ippoliti, R., 2020. "The socio-economic planning of a community nurses programme in mountain areas: A Directional Distance Function approach," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
    42. Amir Moradi-Motlagh & Ali Emrouznejad, 2022. "The origins and development of statistical approaches in non-parametric frontier models: a survey of the first two decades of scholarly literature (1998–2020)," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 318(1), pages 713-741, November.
    43. Karagiannis, Roxani & Karagiannis, Giannis, 2023. "Nonparametric estimates of price efficiency for the Greek infant milk market: Curing the curse of dimensionality with shannon entropy," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 121(C).
    44. Andrea Bonfiglio & Roberto Henke & Fabio Pierangeli & Maria Rosaria Pupo D'Andrea, 2020. "Effects of redistributing policy support on farmers’ technical efficiency," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 51(2), pages 305-320, March.
    45. Del Barrio-Tellado, María José & Gómez-Vega, Mafalda & Gómez-Zapata, Jonathan Daniel & Herrero-Prieto, Luis César, 2021. "Urban public libraries: Performance analysis using dynamic-network-DEA," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
    46. Valiyattoor, Vipin & Bhandari, Anup Kumar, 2020. "Outsourcing and firm performance nexus: An analysis using the conventional and panel double-bootstrap procedure," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 54(C).
    47. Cifuentes-Faura, Javier & Faura-Martínez, Ursula, 2023. "Measuring Spanish airport performance: A bootstrap data envelopment analysis of efficiency," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
    48. Del Barrio-Tellado, María José & Gómez-Vega, Mafalda & Herrero-Prieto, Luis César, 2023. "Performance of cultural heritage institutions: A regional perspective," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 87(PB).

  22. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2018. "Technical, Allocative and Overall Efficiency: Inference and Hypothesis Testing," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018018, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2018. "Improving Finite Sample Approximation by Central Limit Theorems for DEA and FDH efficiency scores," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072018, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    2. Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2020. "Improving finite sample approximation by central limit theorems for estimates from Data Envelopment Analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 284(3), pages 1002-1015.

  23. Simar, Leopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2018. "Improving Finite Sample Approximation by Central Limit Theorems for DEA and FDH efficiency scores," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018020, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Nguyen, Bao Hoang & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2022. "Data sharpening for improving central limit theorem approximations for data envelopment analysis–type efficiency estimators," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(3), pages 1469-1480.
    2. Monge, Juan F. & Ruiz, José L., 2023. "Setting closer targets based on non-dominated convex combinations of Pareto-efficient units: A bi-level linear programming approach in Data Envelopment Analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 311(3), pages 1084-1096.
    3. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk & Shirong Zhao, 2023. "Inference for Aggregate Efficiency: Theory and Guidelines for Practitioners," CEPA Working Papers Series WP032023, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    4. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk & Shirong Zhao, 2022. "Further Improvements of Finite Sample Approximation of Central Limit Theorems for Envelopment Estimators," CEPA Working Papers Series WP062022, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    5. Pham, Manh D. & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2022. "Statistical Inference for Aggregation of Malmquist Productivity Indices," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022005, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    6. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Performance Analysis: Economic Foundations and Trends," Foundations and Trends(R) in Econometrics, now publishers, vol. 11(3), pages 153-229, September.

  24. Cinzia Daraio & Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2018. "Fast and Efficient Computation of Directional Distance Estimators," DIAG Technical Reports 2018-05, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza".

    Cited by:

    1. Fall, François Seck & Tchakoute Tchuigoua, Hubert & Vanhems, Anne & Simar, Léopold, 2022. "Investigating the unobserved heterogeneity effect on microfinance social efficiency," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022010, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    2. Yunguo Lu & Lin Zhang, 2023. "Environmental information disclosure and firm production: evidence from the estimated efficiency of publicly listed firms in China," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 59(1), pages 99-119, February.
    3. Francisco Javier Sáez-Fernández & Ignacio Jiménez-Hernández & María del Sol Ostos-Rey, 2020. "Seasonality and Efficiency of the Hotel Industry in the Balearic Islands: Implications for Economic and Environmental Sustainability," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(9), pages 1-17, April.
    4. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2021. "Quality as a latent heterogeneity factor in the efficiency of universities," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
    5. F. S. Fall & H. Tchakoute Tchuigoua & A. Vanhems & L. Simar, 2023. "Investigating the unobserved heterogeneity effect on outreach to women: lessons from microfinance institutions," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 328(2), pages 1365-1386, September.
    6. Arabmaldar, A. & Sahoo, B.K. & Ghiyasi, M., 2023. "A generalized robust data envelopment analysis model based on directional distance function," Publications of Darmstadt Technical University, Institute for Business Studies (BWL) 138962, Darmstadt Technical University, Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law, Institute for Business Studies (BWL).
    7. François-Seck Fall & Hubert Tchakoute Tchuigoua & Anne Vanhems & Léopold Simar, 2021. "Gender effect on microfinance social efficiency: A robust nonparametric approach," Post-Print hal-03200582, HAL.
    8. Khezrimotlagh, Dariush, 2022. "Simulation designs for production frontiers," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(3), pages 1321-1334.
    9. D'Inverno, Giovanna & Moesen, Wim & De Witte, Kristof, 2022. "Local government size and service level provision. Evidence from conditional non-parametric analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    10. Daraio, Cinzia & Di Leo, Simone & Simar, Léopold, 2023. "Efficiency of Italian Municipalities and Waste Regulatory Target," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2023018, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    11. Cordero, Jose Manuel & Polo, Cristina & Simancas, Rosa, 2022. "Assessing the efficiency of secondary schools: Evidence from OECD countries participating in PISA 2015," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    12. Michael L. Polemis & Thanasis Stengos & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2020. "Modeling the effect of competition on US manufacturing sectors’ efficiency: an order-m frontier analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 54(1), pages 27-41, August.
    13. Daraio, Cinzia & Di Leo, Simone & Simar, Léopold, 2024. "Conical FDH Estimators of Directional Distances and Luenberger Productivity Indices for General Technologies," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2024009, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    14. 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.
    15. Thyago C. C. Nepomuceno & Cinzia Daraio & Ana Paula C. S. Costa, 2021. "Multicriteria Ranking for the Efficient and Effective Assessment of Police Departments," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(8), pages 1-15, April.
    16. Agasisti, Tommaso & Egorov, Aleksei & Serebrennikov, Pavel, 2023. "Universities’ efficiency and the socioeconomic characteristics of their environment — Evidence from an empirical analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    17. Amir Moradi-Motlagh & Ali Emrouznejad, 2022. "The origins and development of statistical approaches in non-parametric frontier models: a survey of the first two decades of scholarly literature (1998–2020)," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 318(1), pages 713-741, November.
    18. Khezrimotlagh, Dariush & Cook, Wade D. & Zhu, Joe, 2020. "A nonparametric framework to detect outliers in estimating production frontiers," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 286(1), pages 375-388.
    19. Fusco, Elisa & Vidoli, Francesco & Rogge, Nicky, 2020. "Spatial directional robust Benefit of the Doubt approach in presence of undesirable output: An application to Italian waste sector," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
    20. Thyago Celso Cavalcante Nepomuceno & Katarina Tatiana Marques Santiago & Cinzia Daraio & Ana Paula Cabral Seixas Costa, 2022. "Exogenous crimes and the assessment of public safety efficiency and effectiveness," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 316(2), pages 1349-1382, September.
    21. 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).

  25. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2018. "Central Limit Theorems and Inference for Sources of Productivity Change Measured by Nonparametric Malmquist Indices," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018021, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2023. "Productivity analysis: roots, foundations, trends and perspectives," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(3), pages 229-247, December.
    2. Paul W. Wilson & Shirong Zhao, 2023. "Investigating the performance of Chinese banks over 2007–2014," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 321(1), pages 663-692, February.
    3. José Solana‐Ibáñez & Manuel Caravaca‐Garratón, 2021. "Stakeholder engagement and corporate social reputation: The influence of exogenous factors on efficiency performance (stakeholder engagement and exogenous factors): Stakeholder engagement and exogenou," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 28(6), pages 1891-1905, November.
    4. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul, 2022. "Another Look at Productivity Growth in Industrialized Countries," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022028, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    5. Benito, Bernardino & Guillamón, María-Dolores & Martínez-Córdoba, Pedro-José, 2020. "Determinants of efficiency improvement in the Spanish public lighting sector," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 64(C).
    6. Pham, Manh D. & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2022. "Statistical Inference for Aggregation of Malmquist Productivity Indices," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022005, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    7. Daraio, Cinzia & Di Leo, Simone & Simar, Léopold, 2024. "Conical FDH Estimators of Directional Distances and Luenberger Productivity Indices for General Technologies," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2024009, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    8. Pedro-José Martínez-Córdoba & Nicola Raimo & Filippo Vitolla & Bernardino Benito, 2020. "Achieving Sustainable Development Goals. Efficiency in the Spanish Clean Water and Sanitation Sector," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(7), pages 1-13, April.
    9. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2020. "Technical, allocative and overall efficiency: Estimation and inference," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 282(3), pages 1164-1176.
    10. Bigerna, Simona & D'Errico, Maria Chiara & Polinori, Paolo, 2020. "Heterogeneous impacts of regulatory policy stringency on the EU electricity Industry:A Bayesian shrinkage dynamic analysis," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 142(C).

  26. Henderson, Daniel & Simar, Leopold & Wang, Le, 2017. "The Three Is of Public Schools: Irrelevant Inputs, Insufficient Resources and Inefficiency," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2017009, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Sam Jones, 2020. "Testing the Technology of Human Capital Production: A General‐to‐Restricted Framework," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 82(6), pages 1429-1455, December.
    2. Lori Taylor & Shawna Grosskopf & Kathy Hayes & Laura Razzolini, 2023. "The role of poverty measurements in achieving educational equity through school finance reform," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(2), pages 109-127, October.

  27. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Leopold, 2017. "Cross-Section Dependence and Latent Heterogeneity to Evaluate the Impact of Human Capital on Country Performance," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2017030, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Jose M. Cordero & Cristina Polo & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2020. "Evaluating the efficiency of municipalities in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 53(3), pages 377-390, June.
    2. Cordero, Jose Manuel & Polo, Cristina & Simancas, Rosa, 2022. "Assessing the efficiency of secondary schools: Evidence from OECD countries participating in PISA 2015," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    3. Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2019. "Technological change, technological catch-up and export orientation: evidence from Latin American Countries," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 52(1), pages 85-100, December.
    4. 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.
    5. Polemis, Michael L. & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2019. "Competitive conditions and sectors’ productive efficiency: A conditional non-parametric frontier analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 276(3), pages 1104-1118.

  28. Nalpas, Nicolas & Simar, Leopold & Vanhems, Anne, 2017. "Portfolio selection in a multi-moment setting: A simple Monte-Carlo-FDH algorithm," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2017027, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. 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).
    2. Marie Briere & Léopold Simar & Ariane Szafarz & Anne Vanhems, 2023. "Sensitivity to measurement errors of the distance to the efficient frontier," Working Papers CEB 23-004, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

  29. Park, Byeong U. & Simar, Leopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2017. "Nonparametric estimation of dynamic discrete choice models for time series data," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2017011, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2021. "Predicting recessions with a frontier measure of output gap: an application to Italian economy," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2021010, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    2. Camilla Mastromarco & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2019. "Predicting Recessions: A New Measure of Output Gap as Predictor," CEPA Working Papers Series WP112019, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    3. Truquet, Lionel, 2023. "Strong mixing properties of discrete-valued time series with exogenous covariates," Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Elsevier, vol. 160(C), pages 294-317.
    4. Tatiana Anopchenko & Olga Gorbaneva & Elena Lazareva & Anton Murzin & Gennady Ougolnitsky, 2019. "Modeling Public—Private Partnerships in Innovative Economy: A Regional Aspect," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(20), pages 1-18, October.
    5. Park, Byeong U. & Simar, Leopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2018. "Forecasting of Recessions via Dynamic Probit for Time Series: Replication and Extension of Kauppi and Saikkonen (2008)," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018004, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    6. Qingyan Ning & Maosheng Li, 2022. "Modeling Pedestrian Detour Behavior By-Passing Conflict Areas," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(24), pages 1-17, December.
    7. Byeong U. Park & Leopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2017. "Revisiting Forecasting of Recessions via Dynamic Probit for Time Series by Kauppi and Saikkonen (2008)," CEPA Working Papers Series WP032017, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    8. Toru Kitagawa & Weining Wang & Mengshan Xu, 2022. "Policy Choice in Time Series by Empirical Welfare Maximization," Papers 2205.03970, arXiv.org, revised Jun 2023.

  30. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2016. "Nonparametric Estimation of Efficiency in the Presence of Environmental Variables," DIAG Technical Reports 2016-02, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza".

    Cited by:

    1. Alfred A. Haug & Vincent C. Blackburn, 2017. "Government secondary school finances in New South Wales: accounting for students’ prior achievements in a two-stage DEA at the school level," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 48(1), pages 69-83, August.
    2. Manuel Salas-Velasco, 2020. "Measuring and explaining the production efficiency of Spanish universities using a non-parametric approach and a bootstrapped-truncated regression," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 122(2), pages 825-846, February.
    3. Cinzia Daraio, 2017. "A framework for the Assessment of Research and its impacts," DIAG Technical Reports 2017-04, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza".

  31. Daouia, Abdelaati & Florens, Jean-Pierre & Simar, Leopold, 2016. "Robust frontier estimation from noisy data: a Tikhonov regularization approach," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2016028, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Jean-Pierre Florens & Léopold Simar & Ingrid van Keilegom, 2020. "Estimation of the Boundary of a Variable Observed with A Symmetric Error," Post-Print hal-02929524, HAL.
    2. Arabmaldar, A. & Sahoo, B.K. & Ghiyasi, M., 2023. "A generalized robust data envelopment analysis model based on directional distance function," Publications of Darmstadt Technical University, Institute for Business Studies (BWL) 138962, Darmstadt Technical University, Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law, Institute for Business Studies (BWL).
    3. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul, 2021. "Nonparametric, Stochastic Frontier Models with Multiple Inputs and Outputs," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2021003, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    4. Adel Hatami-Marbini & Aliasghar Arabmaldar & John Otu Asu, 2022. "Robust productivity growth and efficiency measurement with undesirable outputs: evidence from the oil industry," OR Spectrum: Quantitative Approaches in Management, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V., vol. 44(4), pages 1213-1254, December.

  32. Nalpas, Nicolas & Simar, Leopold & Vanhems, Anne, 2016. "Portfolio Selection in a Multi-Input Multi-Output Setting:a Simple Monte-Carlo-FDH Algorithm," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2016022, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Zhou, Zhongbao & Jin, Qianying & Xiao, Helu & Wu, Qian & Liu, Wenbin, 2018. "Estimation of cardinality constrained portfolio efficiency via segmented DEA," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 28-37.

  33. Li, Degui & Simar, Leopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2016. "Generalized nonparametric smoothing with mixed discrete and continuous data," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2016020, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Dewitte, Ruben & Dumont, Michel & Merlevede, Bruno & Rayp, Glenn & Verschelde, Marijn, 2020. "Firm-Heterogeneous Biased Technological Change: A nonparametric approach under endogeneity," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 283(3), pages 1172-1182.
    2. Jean Pierre Huiban & Camilla Mastromarco & Antonio Musolesi & Michel Simioni, 2018. "Reconciling the Porter hypothesis with the traditional paradigm about environmental regulation: a nonparametric approach," Post-Print hal-02623725, HAL.
    3. Subal C. Kumbhakar & Christopher F. Parmeter & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2022. "Stochastic Frontier Analysis: Foundations and Advances II," Springer Books, in: Subhash C. Ray & Robert G. Chambers & Subal C. Kumbhakar (ed.), Handbook of Production Economics, chapter 9, pages 371-408, Springer.
    4. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2021. "Predicting recessions with a frontier measure of output gap: an application to Italian economy," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2021010, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    5. Park, Byeong U. & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2017. "Nonparametric estimation of dynamic discrete choice models for time series data," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 108(C), pages 97-120.
    6. Camilla Mastromarco & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2019. "Predicting Recessions: A New Measure of Output Gap as Predictor," CEPA Working Papers Series WP112019, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    7. Simar, Leopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2014. "Nonparametric Least Squares Methods for Stochastic Frontier Models," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2014012, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    8. Yong Liu & Alan P. Ker, 2021. "Simultaneous borrowing of information across space and time for pricing insurance contracts: An application to rating crop insurance policies," Journal of Risk & Insurance, The American Risk and Insurance Association, vol. 88(1), pages 231-257, March.
    9. Liu, Y. & Ker, A., 2018. "Is There Too Much History in Historical Yield Data," 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia 277293, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    10. De Witte, Kristof & Schiltz, Fritz, 2018. "Measuring and explaining organizational effectiveness of school districts: Evidence from a robust and conditional Benefit-of-the-Doubt approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 267(3), pages 1172-1181.
    11. Park, Byeong U. & Simar, Leopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2018. "Forecasting of Recessions via Dynamic Probit for Time Series: Replication and Extension of Kauppi and Saikkonen (2008)," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018004, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    12. Zonglin He & Jean D. Opsomer, 2015. "Local polynomial regression with an ordinal covariate," Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(4), pages 516-531, December.
    13. Camilla Mastromarco & Lenka Stastna & Jana Votapkova, 2019. "Efficiency of hospitals in the Czech Republic: Conditional efficiency approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 51(1), pages 73-89, February.
    14. Cordero, José Manuel & Salinas-Jiménez, Javier & Salinas-Jiménez, M Mar, 2017. "Exploring factors affecting the level of happiness across countries: A conditional robust nonparametric frontier analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 256(2), pages 663-672.
    15. Byeong U. Park & Leopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2017. "Revisiting Forecasting of Recessions via Dynamic Probit for Time Series by Kauppi and Saikkonen (2008)," CEPA Working Papers Series WP032017, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    16. Chu, Chi-Yang & Henderson, Daniel J. & Parmeter, Christopher F., 2017. "On discrete Epanechnikov kernel functions," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 116(C), pages 79-105.
    17. Cordero, José Manuel & Pedraja-Chaparro, Francisco & Pisaflores, Elsa C. & Polo, Cristina, 2016. "Efficiency assessment of Portuguese municipalities using a conditional nonparametric approach," MPRA Paper 70674, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    18. Jeffrey S. Racine, 2016. "A Correction to "Generalized Nonparametric Smoothing with Mixed Discrete and Continuous Data" by Li, Simar & Zelenyuk (2014, CSDA)," Department of Economics Working Papers 2016-01, McMaster University.

  34. Hafner, Christian & Manner, H. & Simar, L., 2015. "The “wrong skewness” problem in stochastic frontier models: a new approach," LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE 2015014, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).

    Cited by:

    1. Oleg Badunenko & Daniel J. Henderson, 2024. "Production analysis with asymmetric noise," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 61(1), pages 1-18, February.
    2. Parmeter, Christopher F. & Simar, Léopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2021. "Inference in the Nonparametric Stochastic Frontier Model," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2021029, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    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. Christopher F. Parmeter & Shirong Zhao, 2023. "An alternative corrected ordinary least squares estimator for the stochastic frontier model," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 64(6), pages 2831-2857, June.
    5. Cheol-Keun Cho & Peter Schmidt, 2020. "The wrong skew problem in stochastic frontier models when inefficiency depends on environmental variables," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 58(5), pages 2031-2047, May.
    6. Rita, Rui & Marques, Vitor & Lúcia Costa, Ana & Matos Chaves, Inês & Gomes, Joana & Paulino, Paulo, 2018. "Efficiency performance and cost structure of Portuguese energy “utilities” – Non-parametric and parametric analysis," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 155(C), pages 35-45.
    7. Graziella Bonanno & Filippo Domma, 2022. "Analytical Derivations of New Specifications for Stochastic Frontiers with Applications," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 10(20), pages 1-17, October.
    8. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul, 2021. "Nonparametric, Stochastic Frontier Models with Multiple Inputs and Outputs," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2021003, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    9. Alecos Papadopoulos, 2021. "Stochastic frontier models using the Generalized Exponential distribution," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 55(1), pages 15-29, February.

  35. Park, Byeong U. & Simar, Leopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2015. "Categorical data in local maximum likelihood: theory and applications to productivity analysis," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2015018, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Parmeter, Christopher F. & Simar, Léopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2021. "Inference in the Nonparametric Stochastic Frontier Model," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2021029, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    2. Subal C. Kumbhakar & Christopher F. Parmeter & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2022. "Stochastic Frontier Analysis: Foundations and Advances II," Springer Books, in: Subhash C. Ray & Robert G. Chambers & Subal C. Kumbhakar (ed.), Handbook of Production Economics, chapter 9, pages 371-408, Springer.
    3. Kelly D.T.Trinh & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2015. "Productivity Growth and Convergence: Revisiting Kumar and Russell (2002)," CEPA Working Papers Series WP112015, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    4. Valentin Zelenyuk & Valentyn Panchenko, 2023. "Bayesian Artificial Neural Networks for Frontier Efficiency Analysis," CEPA Working Papers Series WP022023, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    5. 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.
    6. Worthington, Andrew C. & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2018. "Data envelopment analysis, truncated regression and double-bootstrap for panel data with application to Chinese bankingAuthor-Name: Du, Kai," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 265(2), pages 748-764.
    7. 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.
    8. Sickles, Robin C. & Song, Wonho & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2018. "Econometric Analysis of Productivity: Theory and Implementation in R," Working Papers 18-008, Rice University, Department of Economics.
    9. Lopez Gomez, Daniel & Parmeter, Christopher F., 2020. "Smooth coefficient estimation of stochastic frontier models," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 193(C).
    10. Christopher F. Parmeter & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2019. "Combining the Virtues of Stochastic Frontier and Data Envelopment Analysis," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 67(6), pages 1628-1658, November.
    11. Yao, Feng & Wang, Taining & Tian, Jinjing & Kumbhakar, Subal C., 2018. "Estimation of a smooth coefficient zero-inefficiency panel stochastic frontier model: A semiparametric approach," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 166(C), pages 25-30.
    12. Quaranta, Anna Grazia & Raffoni, Anna & Visani, Franco, 2018. "A multidimensional approach to measuring bank branch efficiency," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 266(2), pages 746-760.
    13. 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.
    14. Tsionas, Mike G., 2021. "Optimal combinations of stochastic frontier and data envelopment analysis models," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 294(2), pages 790-800.
    15. Fan Zhang & Joshua Hall & Feng Yao, 2017. "Does Economic Freedom Affect The Production Frontier? A Semiparametric Approach With Panel Data," Working Papers 17-27, Department of Economics, West Virginia University.
    16. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul, 2021. "Nonparametric, Stochastic Frontier Models with Multiple Inputs and Outputs," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2021003, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    17. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2019. "Data Envelopment Analysis and Business Analytics: The Big Data Challenges and Some Solutions," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072019, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    18. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Robin C. Sickles & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2022. "Efficiency Analysis with Stochastic Frontier Models Using Popular Statistical Softwares," Springer Books, in: Duangkamon Chotikapanich & Alicia N. Rambaldi & Nicholas Rohde (ed.), Advances in Economic Measurement, chapter 0, pages 129-171, Springer.
    19. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Robin C. Sickles & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "What do we know from the vast literature on efficiency and productivity in healthcare? A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis," CEPA Working Papers Series WP092021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    20. Christopher F. Parmeter & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2016. "A Bridge Too Far? The State of the Art in Combining the Virtues of Stochastic Frontier Analysis and Data Envelopement Analysis," Working Papers 2016-10, University of Miami, Department of Economics.

  36. Kneip, Alois & Simar, Leopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid, 2015. "Frontier estimation in the presence of measurement error with unknown variance," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2015004, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

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    1. Jean-Pierre Florens & Léopold Simar & Ingrid van Keilegom, 2020. "Estimation of the Boundary of a Variable Observed with A Symmetric Error," Post-Print hal-02929524, HAL.
    2. Abdelaati Daouia & Jean-Pierre Florens & Léopold Simar, 2020. "Robust frontier estimation from noisy data: a Tikhonov regularization approach," Post-Print hal-02573853, HAL.
    3. Parmeter, Christopher F. & Simar, Léopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2021. "Inference in the Nonparametric Stochastic Frontier Model," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2021029, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    4. Subal C. Kumbhakar & Christopher F. Parmeter & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2022. "Stochastic Frontier Analysis: Foundations and Advances II," Springer Books, in: Subhash C. Ray & Robert G. Chambers & Subal C. Kumbhakar (ed.), Handbook of Production Economics, chapter 9, pages 371-408, Springer.
    5. Tsionas, Mike G., 2020. "Bounded rationality and thick frontiers in stochastic frontier analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 284(2), pages 762-768.
    6. Christopher F. Parmeter & Alan T. K. Wan & Xinyu Zhang, 2019. "Model averaging estimators for the stochastic frontier model," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 51(2), pages 91-103, June.
    7. Simar, Leopold & Vanhems, Anne & Van Keilegom, Ingrid, 2013. "Unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity in nonparametric frontier estimation," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2013054, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    8. Jun Cai & William C. Horrace & Christopher F. Parmeter, 2021. "Density deconvolution with Laplace errors and unknown variance," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 56(2), pages 103-113, December.
    9. Zhou, Jianhua & Parmeter, Christopher F. & Kumbhakar, Subal C., 2020. "Nonparametric estimation of the determinants of inefficiency in the presence of firm heterogeneity," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 286(3), pages 1142-1152.
    10. William C. Horrace & Yulong Wang, 2022. "Nonparametric tests of tail behavior in stochastic frontier models," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 37(3), pages 537-562, April.
    11. Eric Weese & Masayoshi Hayashi & Masashi Nishikawa, 2016. "Inefficiency and Self-Determination: Simulation-based evidence from Meiji Japan," Discussion Papers 1627, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University.
    12. Christopher F. Parmeter & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2019. "Combining the Virtues of Stochastic Frontier and Data Envelopment Analysis," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 67(6), pages 1628-1658, November.
    13. Song, Junmo & Oh, Dong-hyun & Kang, Jiwon, 2017. "Robust estimation in stochastic frontier models," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 243-267.
    14. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul, 2021. "Nonparametric, Stochastic Frontier Models with Multiple Inputs and Outputs," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2021003, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    15. 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.
    16. Daouia, Abdelaati & Florens, Jean-Pierre & Simar, Léopold, 2018. "Robustified expected maximum production frontiers," TSE Working Papers 17-890, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
    17. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Robin C. Sickles & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2022. "Efficiency Analysis with Stochastic Frontier Models Using Popular Statistical Softwares," Springer Books, in: Duangkamon Chotikapanich & Alicia N. Rambaldi & Nicholas Rohde (ed.), Advances in Economic Measurement, chapter 0, pages 129-171, Springer.
    18. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Robin C. Sickles & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "What do we know from the vast literature on efficiency and productivity in healthcare? A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis," CEPA Working Papers Series WP092021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    19. Jun Cai & William C. Horrace & Christopher F. Parmeter, 2024. "Penalized sieve estimation of zero‐inefficiency stochastic frontiers," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 39(1), pages 41-65, January.

  37. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2015. "Testing the "Separability" Condition in Two-Stage Nonparametric Models of Production," DIAG Technical Reports 2015-08, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza".

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    2. Maria Giovanna Brandano & Claudio Detotto & Marco Vannini, 2019. "Comparative Efficiency Of Agricultural Cooperatives And Conventional Firms In A Sample Of Quasi-Twin Companies," Post-Print hal-01974512, HAL.
    3. Christopher F. Parmeter & Hung-Jen Wang & Subal C. Kumbhakar, 2017. "Nonparametric estimation of the determinants of inefficiency," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 47(3), pages 205-221, June.
    4. Titl, Vitezslav & De Witte, Kristof, 2022. "How politics influence public good provision," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    5. Veronese da Silva, Aline & Costa, Marcelo Azevedo & Lopes-Ahn, Ana Lúcia, 2022. "Accounting multiple environmental variables in DEA energy transmission benchmarking modelling: The 2019 Brazilian case," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
    6. Núñez, F. & Arcos-Vargas, A. & Villa, G., 2020. "Efficiency benchmarking and remuneration of Spanish electricity distribution companies," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 67(C).
    7. Nicola Galluzzo, 2021. "Estimation of the impact of CAP subsidies as environmental variables on Romanian farms," Economia agro-alimentare, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 23(3), pages 1-24.
    8. Cordero, José Manuel & Salinas-Jiménez, Javier & Salinas-Jiménez, M Mar, 2017. "Exploring factors affecting the level of happiness across countries: A conditional robust nonparametric frontier analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 256(2), pages 663-672.
    9. Manh D. Pham & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2016. "Slack-based directional distance function in the presence of bad outputs: Theory and Application to Vietnamese Banking," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072016, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    10. Varabyova, Yauheniya & Blankart, Carl Rudolf Berchtold & Schreyögg, Jonas, 2016. "Using nonparametric conditional approach to integrate quality into efficiency analysis: Empirical evidence from cardiology departments," hche Research Papers 11, University of Hamburg, Hamburg Center for Health Economics (hche).
    11. Devicienti, Francesco & Manello, Alessandro & Vannoni, Davide, 2016. "Technical Efficiency, Unions and Decentralized Labor Contracts," IZA Discussion Papers 10292, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    12. Yauheniya Varabyova & Jonas Schreyögg, 2018. "Integrating quality into the nonparametric analysis of efficiency: a simulation comparison of popular methods," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 261(1), pages 365-392, February.
    13. Jose M. Cordero & Francisco Pedraja-Chaparro & Elsa C. Pisaflores & Cristina Polo, 2017. "Efficiency assessment of Portuguese municipalities using a conditional nonparametric approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 48(1), pages 1-24, August.
    14. Ioannis E. Tsolas, 2020. "Financial Performance Assessment of Construction Firms by Means of RAM-Based Composite Indicators," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 8(8), pages 1-16, August.
    15. Ricardo Sellers-Rubio & Aurora Calderón-Martínez, 2021. "Brand strategy scope and advertising spending: The more the better?," Tourism Economics, , vol. 27(1), pages 70-85, February.
    16. Manello, Alessandro, 2017. "Productivity growth, environmental regulation and win–win opportunities: The case of chemical industry in Italy and Germany," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 262(2), pages 733-743.
    17. Fusco, Elisa & Vidoli, Francesco & Sahoo, Biresh K., 2018. "Spatial heterogeneity in composite indicator: A methodological proposal," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 1-14.
    18. José Manuel Cordero & Cristina Polo & Daniel Santín & Gabriela Sicilia, 2016. "Monte-Carlo Comparison of Conditional Nonparametric Methods and Traditional Approaches to Include Exogenous Variables," Pacific Economic Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 21(4), pages 483-497, October.

  38. Daraio, Cinzia & Bonaccorsi, Andrea & Simar, Leopold, 2015. "Efficiency and economies of scale and specialization in European universities: a directional distance approach," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2015017, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

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    1. Łukasz Brzezicki, 2020. "The Efficiency of Public and Private Higher Education Institutions in Poland," Gospodarka Narodowa. The Polish Journal of Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, issue 4, pages 33-51.
    2. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2021. "Quality as a latent heterogeneity factor in the efficiency of universities," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
    3. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Quality and its impact on efficiency," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2019004, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    4. Daraio, Cinzia & Bonaccorsi, Andrea & Simar, Leopold, 2014. "Rankings and university performance: a conditional multidimensional approach," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2014025, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    5. Yang, Guoliang & Ahlgren, Per & Yang, Liying & Rousseau, Ronald & Ding, Jielan, 2016. "Using multi-level frontiers in DEA models to grade countries/territories," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 10(1), pages 238-253.
    6. Herberholz, Lars & Wigger, Berthold U., 2021. "Efficiency of European universities: A comparison of peers," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 50(9).
    7. Fu, Tsu-Tan & See, Kok Fong, 2022. "An integrated analysis of quality and productivity growth in China’s and Taiwan’s higher education institutions," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 234-249.
    8. Benedetto Lepori & Aldo Geuna & Antonietta Mira, 2019. "Scientific output scales with resources. A comparison of US and European universities," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(10), pages 1-18, October.
    9. Lars Herberholz & Berthold U. Wigger, 2020. "Efficiency of European Universities: A Comparison of Peers," CESifo Working Paper Series 8044, CESifo.
    10. Hamid Kiaei & Reza Farzipoor Saen & Reza Kazemi Matin, 2023. "Cross-efficiency evaluation and improvement in two-stage network data envelopment analysis," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 321(1), pages 281-309, February.
    11. Yauheniya Varabyova & Carl Rudolf Blankart & Aleksandra Torbica & Jonas Schreyögg, 2017. "Comparing the Efficiency of Hospitals in Italy and Germany: Nonparametric Conditional Approach Based on Partial Frontier," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 20(3), pages 379-394, September.
    12. Dag Fjeld Edvardsen & Finn R. Førsund & Sverre A. C. Kittelsen, 2017. "Productivity development of Norwegian institutions of higher education 2004–2013," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 399-415, April.
    13. Vanesa D’Elia & Gustavo Ferro, 2019. "Empirical Efficiency Measurement in Higher Education: An Overview," CEMA Working Papers: Serie Documentos de Trabajo. 708, Universidad del CEMA.
    14. Andrea Bonaccorsi & Luca Secondi, 2017. "The determinants of research performance in European universities: a large scale multilevel analysis," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 112(3), pages 1147-1178, September.
    15. Degl’Innocenti, Marta & Matousek, Roman & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2019. "The interconnections of academic research and universities’ “third mission”: Evidence from the UK," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(9), pages 1-1.
    16. Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna, 2017. "An evaluation and explanation of (in)efficiency in higher education institutions in Europe and the U.S. with the application of two-stage semi-parametric DEA," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 46(9), pages 1595-1605.
    17. 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).
    18. 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).

  39. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Leopold, 2014. "Global Dependence and Productivity: A Robust Nonparametric World Frontier Analysis," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2014049, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

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    1. Michael L. Polemis & Thanasis Stengos & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2020. "Modeling the effect of competition on US manufacturing sectors’ efficiency: an order-m frontier analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 54(1), pages 27-41, August.

  40. Andrea Bonaccorsi & Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar, 2014. "Efficiency and economies of scale and scope in European universities. A directional distance approach," DIAG Technical Reports 2014-08, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza".

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    1. Daraio, Cinzia & Bonaccorsi, Andrea & Simar, Leopold, 2014. "Rankings and university performance: a conditional multidimensional approach," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2014025, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    2. Mehdi Rhaiem & Nabil Amara, 2020. "Determinants of research efficiency in Canadian business schools: evidence from scholar-level data," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 125(1), pages 53-99, October.
    3. Anatoliy G. Goncharuk, 2016. "Evaluating the Efficiency of Higher Education," Journal of Applied Management and Investments, Department of Business Administration and Corporate Security, International Humanitarian University, vol. 5(2), pages 82-91, May.
    4. Andrea Bonaccorsi & Cinzia Daraio, 2014. "Beyond university rankings ? Generating new indicators on European universities by linking data in open platforms," DIAG Technical Reports 2014-12, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza".

  41. Bonaccorsi, Andrea & Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold, 2014. "Scale and research specialization in European Universities: a directional distance approach to teaching efficiency," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2014009, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

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    1. Daraio, Cinzia & Bonaccorsi, Andrea & Simar, Léopold, 2015. "Efficiency and economies of scale and specialization in European universities: A directional distance approach," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 9(3), pages 430-448.
    2. Bonaccorsi, Andrea & Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold, 2014. "Efficiency and economies of scale and scope in European universities: a directional distance approach," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2014020, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    3. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2021. "Quality as a latent heterogeneity factor in the efficiency of universities," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
    4. Degl’Innocenti, Marta & Matousek, Roman & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2019. "The interconnections of academic research and universities’ “third mission”: Evidence from the UK," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(9), pages 1-1.

  42. Cazals, Catherine & Feve, Frederique & Florens, Jean-Pierre & Simar, Leopold, 2014. "Non Parametric Instrumental Variables Estimation for Efficiency Frontier," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2014032, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

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    1. Jean-Pierre Florens & Léopold Simar & Ingrid van Keilegom, 2020. "Estimation of the Boundary of a Variable Observed with A Symmetric Error," Post-Print hal-02929524, HAL.
    2. Centorrino, Samuele & Pérez-Urdiales, María, 2023. "Maximum likelihood estimation of stochastic frontier models with endogeneity," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 234(1), pages 82-105.
    3. Frédérique Fève & Jean-Pierre Florens & Léopold Simar, 2023. "Proportional incremental cost probability functions and their frontiers," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 64(6), pages 2721-2756, June.
    4. Laurens Cherchye & Bram De Rock & Dieter Saelens & Marijn Verschelde & Bart Roets, 2022. "Performance Analysis with Unobserved Inputs: An Application to Endogenous Automation in Railway Traffic Management," Working Papers ECARES 2022-06, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    5. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Léopold, 2021. "Latent heterogeneity to evaluate the effect of human capital on world technology frontier," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2021009, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    6. Juan Aparicio & Jose Manuel Cordero & Carlos Díaz-Caro, 2020. "Efficiency and productivity change of regional tax offices in Spain: an empirical study using Malmquist–Luenberger and Luenberger indices," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 59(3), pages 1403-1434, September.
    7. Jad Beyhum & Jean-Pierre FLorens & Ingrid Van Keilegom, 2020. "Nonparametric instrumental regression with right censored duration outcomes," Papers 2011.10423, arXiv.org.
    8. Jad Beyhum & Jean-Pierre Florens & Ingrid Van Keilegom, 2021. "A nonparametric instrumental approach to endogeneity in competing risks models," Papers 2105.00946, arXiv.org.
    9. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Leopold, 2018. "Globalization and productivity: A robust nonparametric world frontier analysis," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2018008, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    10. Cordero, Jose Manuel & Polo, Cristina & Simancas, Rosa, 2022. "Assessing the efficiency of secondary schools: Evidence from OECD countries participating in PISA 2015," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    11. 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.
    12. Beyhum, Jad & Florens, Jean-Pierre & Van Keilegom, Ingrid, 2020. "Nonparametric Instrumental Regression with Right Censored Duration Outcomes," TSE Working Papers 20-1164, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
    13. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Leopold, 2017. "Cross-Section Dependence and Latent Heterogeneity to Evaluate the Impact of Human Capital on Country Performance," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2017030, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    14. Kenneth Løvold Rødseth & Rasmus Bøgh Holmen & Timo Kuosmanen & Halvor Schøyen, 2023. "Market access and seaport efficiency: the case of container handling in Norway," Journal of Shipping and Trade, Springer, vol. 8(1), pages 1-25, December.
    15. Guillermo Díaz & Vincent Charles, 2016. "Regulatory design and technical efficiency: public transport in France," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Springer, vol. 50(3), pages 328-350, December.
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  43. Cinzia Daraio & Andrea Bonaccorsi & Leopold Simar, 2014. "Rankings and university performance: a conditional multidimensional approach," DIAG Technical Reports 2014-09, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza".

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    2. Lehmann, Erik E. & Meoli, Michele & Paleari, Stefano & Stockinger, Sarah A. E., 2017. "Approaching effects of the economic crisis on university efficiency: A comparative study of Germany and Italy," UO Working Papers 08-17, University of Augsburg, Chair of Management and Organization.
    3. Zharova, Alona & Härdle, Wolfgang Karl & Lessmann, Stefan, 2023. "Data-driven support for policy and decision-making in university research management: A case study from Germany," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 308(1), pages 353-368.
    4. Badin, Luiza & Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold, 2018. "A Bootstrap Approach for Bandwidth Selection in Estimating Conditional Efficiency Measures," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018007, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    5. Wei-Chao Lin & Ching Chen, 2021. "Novel World University Rankings Combining Academic, Environmental and Resource Indicators," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(24), pages 1-15, December.
    6. Marco Taliento, 2022. "The Triple Mission of the Modern University: Component Interplay and Performance Analysis from Italy," World, MDPI, vol. 3(3), pages 1-24, July.
    7. Cinzia Daraio & Maurizio Lenzerini & Claudio Leporelli & Henk F. Moed & Paolo Naggar & Andrea Bonaccorsi & Alessandro Bartolucci, 2016. "Data integration for research and innovation policy: an Ontology-Based Data Management approach," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 106(2), pages 857-871, February.
    8. Yunguo Lu & Lin Zhang, 2023. "Environmental information disclosure and firm production: evidence from the estimated efficiency of publicly listed firms in China," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 59(1), pages 99-119, February.
    9. Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2018. "Financial Development and Countries’ Production Efficiency: A Nonparametric Analysis," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-13, August.
    10. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2021. "Quality as a latent heterogeneity factor in the efficiency of universities," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
    11. Cinzia Daraio & Simone Di Leo & Loet Leydesdorff, 2023. "A heuristic approach based on Leiden rankings to identify outliers: evidence from Italian universities in the European landscape," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 128(1), pages 483-510, January.
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    13. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Quality and its impact on efficiency," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2019004, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    14. Ernesto Galbán-Rodríguez & Deborah Torres-Ponjuán & Ricardo Arencibia-Jorge, 2021. "Multidimensional quantitative analysis of the Cuban scientific output and its regional context," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 126(3), pages 2643-2665, March.
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    17. Wang, Derek D., 2019. "Performance-based resource allocation for higher education institutions in China," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 66-75.
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    25. Klaus Wohlrabe & Felix de Moya Anegon & Lutz Bornmann, 2018. "How efficiently produce elite US universities highly cited papers? A case study based on input and output data," ifo Working Paper Series 264, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich.
    26. Cinzia Daraio & Simone Di Leo & Loet Leydesdorff, 2022. "Using the Leiden Rankings as a Heuristics: Evidence from Italian universities in the European landscape," LEM Papers Series 2022/08, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
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    28. Simon de Blas, Clara & Simon Martin, Jose & Gomez Gonzalez, Daniel, 2018. "Combined social networks and data envelopment analysis for ranking," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 266(3), pages 990-999.
    29. Matousek, Roman & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2016. "CEO compensation and bank efficiency: An application of conditional nonparametric frontiers," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 251(1), pages 264-273.
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    45. Mohammad Reza Zare Banadkouki & Mohammad Ali Vahdatzad & Mohammad Saleh Owlia & Mohammad Mahdi Lotfi, 2018. "Ranking Iranian universities: an interpretative structural modeling approach," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 117(3), pages 1493-1512, December.
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    4. Subal C. Kumbhakar & Christopher F. Parmeter & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2022. "Stochastic Frontier Analysis: Foundations and Advances II," Springer Books, in: Subhash C. Ray & Robert G. Chambers & Subal C. Kumbhakar (ed.), Handbook of Production Economics, chapter 9, pages 371-408, Springer.
    5. Xu Guo & Gao-Rong Li & Michael McAleer & Wing-Keung Wong, 2017. "Specification Testing of Production in a Stochastic Frontier Model," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 17-097/III, Tinbergen Institute.
    6. Paul W. Wilson & Shirong Zhao, 2022. "Evidence from shadow price of equity on “Too-Big-to-Fail” Banks," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 57(1), pages 23-40, February.
    7. José Luis Preciado Arreola & Daisuke Yagi & Andrew L. Johnson, 2020. "Insights from machine learning for evaluating production function estimators on manufacturing survey data," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 53(2), pages 181-225, April.
    8. Christopher F. Parmeter & Hung-Jen Wang & Subal C. Kumbhakar, 2017. "Nonparametric estimation of the determinants of inefficiency," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 47(3), pages 205-221, June.
    9. Parmeter, Christopher F., 2021. "Is it MOLS or COLS?," Efficiency Series Papers 2021/04, University of Oviedo, Department of Economics, Oviedo Efficiency Group (OEG).
    10. Jun Cai & William C. Horrace & Christopher F. Parmeter, 2021. "Density deconvolution with Laplace errors and unknown variance," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 56(2), pages 103-113, December.
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    12. 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.
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    15. Zhou, Jianhua & Parmeter, Christopher F. & Kumbhakar, Subal C., 2020. "Nonparametric estimation of the determinants of inefficiency in the presence of firm heterogeneity," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 286(3), pages 1142-1152.
    16. 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.
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    29. Tsionas, Mike G., 2021. "Optimal combinations of stochastic frontier and data envelopment analysis models," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 294(2), pages 790-800.
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    34. Xu Guo & Tao Wang & Lixing Zhu, 2016. "Model checking for parametric single-index models: a dimension reduction model-adaptive approach," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 78(5), pages 1013-1035, November.
    35. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar, 2022. "Approximations and Inference for Nonparametric Production Frontiers," LEM Papers Series 2022/14, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    36. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Robin C. Sickles & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2022. "Efficiency Analysis with Stochastic Frontier Models Using Popular Statistical Softwares," Springer Books, in: Duangkamon Chotikapanich & Alicia N. Rambaldi & Nicholas Rohde (ed.), Advances in Economic Measurement, chapter 0, pages 129-171, Springer.
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    38. Christopher F. Parmeter & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2016. "A Bridge Too Far? The State of the Art in Combining the Virtues of Stochastic Frontier Analysis and Data Envelopement Analysis," Working Papers 2016-10, University of Miami, Department of Economics.
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    13. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Quality and its impact on efficiency," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2019004, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    14. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Léopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid, 2022. "Estimating Nonparametric Conditional Frontiers and Efficiencies: A New Approach," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022035, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    15. Cazals, Catherine & Feve, Frederique & Florens, Jean-Pierre & Simar, Leopold, 2016. "Non Parametric Instrumental Variables Estimation for Efficiency Frontier," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2016014, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    16. François-Seck Fall & Hubert Tchakoute Tchuigoua & Anne Vanhems & Léopold Simar, 2021. "Gender effect on microfinance social efficiency: A robust nonparametric approach," Post-Print hal-03200582, HAL.
    17. Tsionas, Mike G. & Izzeldin, Marwan, 2018. "A novel model of costly technical efficiency," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 268(2), pages 653-664.
    18. Zhongqi Deng & Qianyu Zhao & Helen X. H. Bao, 2020. "The Impact of Urbanization on Farmland Productivity: Implications for China’s Requisition–Compensation Balance of Farmland Policy," Land, MDPI, vol. 9(9), pages 1-24, September.
    19. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Leopold, 2018. "Globalization and productivity: A robust nonparametric world frontier analysis," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2018008, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    20. Cordero, Jose Manuel & Polo, Cristina & Simancas, Rosa, 2022. "Assessing the efficiency of secondary schools: Evidence from OECD countries participating in PISA 2015," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    21. Kristiaan Kerstens & Christopher O’donnell & Ignace van de Woestyne, 2019. "Metatechnology frontier and convexity: A restatement," Post-Print hal-02108502, HAL.
    22. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2018. "Fast and Efficient Computation of Directional Distance Estimators," LEM Papers Series 2018/21, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    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.
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    25. Rouven E. Haschka & Helmut Herwartz, 2022. "Endogeneity in pharmaceutical knowledge generation: An instrument‐free copula approach for Poisson frontier models," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 31(4), pages 942-960, November.
    26. 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.
    27. Walheer, Barnabé, 2023. "Meta-frontier and technology switchers: A nonparametric approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 305(1), pages 463-474.
    28. Devicienti, Francesco & Manello, Alessandro & Vannoni, Davide, 2016. "Technical Efficiency, Unions and Decentralized Labor Contracts," IZA Discussion Papers 10292, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    29. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Leopold, 2017. "Cross-Section Dependence and Latent Heterogeneity to Evaluate the Impact of Human Capital on Country Performance," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2017030, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    30. Sydney Chikalipah, 2017. "Institutional Environment and Microfinance Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa," African Development Review, African Development Bank, vol. 29(1), pages 16-27, March.
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    3. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2023. "Productivity analysis: roots, foundations, trends and perspectives," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(3), pages 229-247, December.
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    7. Badin, Luiza & Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold, 2018. "A Bootstrap Approach for Bandwidth Selection in Estimating Conditional Efficiency Measures," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018007, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    8. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2020. "Robust efficiency analysis of public hospitals in Queensland, Australia," CEPA Working Papers Series WP052020, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
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    14. Sergio Destefanis & Francesco Addesa & Giambattista Rossi, 2022. "The impact of COVID-19 on home advantage: a conditional order-m analysis of football clubs’ efficiency in the top-5 European leagues," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(58), pages 6639-6655, December.
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    20. Daraio, Cinzia & Bonaccorsi, Andrea & Simar, Leopold, 2014. "Rankings and university performance: a conditional multidimensional approach," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2014025, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    21. Rolf Färe & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "On aggregation of multi-factor productivity indexes," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 55(2), pages 107-133, April.
    22. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Léopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid, 2022. "Estimating Nonparametric Conditional Frontiers and Efficiencies: A New Approach," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022035, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    23. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2018. "Improving Finite Sample Approximation by Central Limit Theorems for DEA and FDH efficiency scores," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072018, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
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    27. K Hervé Dakpo, 2016. "On modeling pollution-generating technologies: a new formulation of the by-production approach," Working Papers SMART 16-06, INRAE UMR SMART.
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    12. Kneip, Alois & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2022. "Conical FDH Estimators of General Technologies, with Applications to Returns to Scale and Malmquist Productivity Indices," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022024, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
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    14. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2015. "Statistical Approaches for Nonparametric Frontier Models: A Guided Tour," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2015022, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
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    6. Valentin Zelenyuk & Shirong Zhao, 2023. "Further Improvements of Finite Sample Approximation of Central Limit Theorems for Weighted and Unweighted Malmquist Productivity Indices," CEPA Working Papers Series WP042023, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
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    19. Gearhart, Richard S. & Michieka, Nyakundi M., 2018. "A comparison of the robust conditional order-m estimation and two stage DEA in measuring healthcare efficiency among California counties," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 395-406.
    20. Worthington, Andrew C. & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2018. "Data envelopment analysis, truncated regression and double-bootstrap for panel data with application to Chinese bankingAuthor-Name: Du, Kai," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 265(2), pages 748-764.
    21. Simar, Leopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2018. "Central Limit Theorems for Aggregate Efficiency," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2018010, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    22. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Hypothesis Testing in Nonparametric Models of Production using Multiple Sample Splits," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2019019, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    23. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Aggregate efficiency of industry and its groups: the case of Queensland public hospitals," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2795-2836, June.
    24. Pham, Manh D. & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2019. "Weak disposability in nonparametric production analysis: A new taxonomy of reference technology sets," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 274(1), pages 186-198.
    25. Duan, Na & Guo, Jun-Peng & Xie, Bai-Chen, 2016. "Is there a difference between the energy and CO2 emission performance for China’s thermal power industry? A bootstrapped directional distance function approach," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 162(C), pages 1552-1563.
    26. Mike Tsionas & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Goodness-of-fit in Optimizing Models of Production: A Generalization with a Bayesian Perspective," CEPA Working Papers Series WP182021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    27. Sickles, Robin C. & Song, Wonho & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2018. "Econometric Analysis of Productivity: Theory and Implementation in R," Working Papers 18-008, Rice University, Department of Economics.
    28. 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.
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    30. 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.
    31. Gearhart, Richard & Michieka, Nyakundi, 2019. "Natural resource abundance and healthcare efficiency in Appalachia: A robust conditional approach," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 129(C), pages 985-996.
    32. Robert G. Chambers & Simone Pieralli & Yu Sheng, 2020. "The Millennium Droughts and Australian Agricultural Productivity Performance: A Nonparametric Analysis," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 102(5), pages 1383-1403, October.
    33. Mette Asmild & Dorte Kronborg & Anders Rønn-Nielsen, 2018. "Testing productivity change, frontier shift, and efficiency change," IFRO Working Paper 2018/07, University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics.
    34. Manh D. Pham & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2016. "Slack-based directional distance function in the presence of bad outputs: Theory and Application to Vietnamese Banking," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072016, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    35. Oleg Badunenko & Daniel J. Henderson & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2017. "The Productivity of Nations," Working Papers in Economics & Finance 2017-05, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth Business School, Economics and Finance Subject Group.
    36. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul, 2022. "Another Look at Productivity Growth in Industrialized Countries," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022028, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    37. Raul Moragues & Juan Aparicio & Miriam Esteve, 2023. "Measuring technical efficiency for multi-input multi-output production processes through OneClass Support Vector Machines: a finite-sample study," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 23(3), pages 1-33, September.
    38. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk & Shirong Zhao, 2022. "Further Improvements of Finite Sample Approximation of Central Limit Theorems for Envelopment Estimators," CEPA Working Papers Series WP062022, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    39. Robin C. Sickles, 2023. "Special Symposium on Lifetime Achievements of Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(3), pages 227-228, December.
    40. 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).
    41. Caitlin T. O’Loughlin & Paul W. Wilson, 2021. "Benchmarking the performance of US Municipalities," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2665-2700, June.
    42. Anders Rønn-Nielsen & Dorte Kronborg & Mette Asmild, 2019. "Exact tests on returns to scale and comparisons of production frontiers in nonparametric models," IFRO Working Paper 2019/04, University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics.
    43. Wilson, Paul W., 2018. "Dimension reduction in nonparametric models of production," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 267(1), pages 349-367.
    44. 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.
    45. Pham, Manh D. & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2022. "Statistical Inference for Aggregation of Malmquist Productivity Indices," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022005, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    46. Hampf, Benjamin & Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold, 2015. "Carbon dioxide emission standards for U.S. power plants: An efficiency analysis perspective," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 50(C), pages 140-153.
    47. Lisciandra, Maurizio & Milani, Riccardo & Millemaci, Emanuele, 2022. "A corruption risk indicator for public procurement," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 73(C).
    48. Alexandre Marinho & Claudia Affonso Silva Araújo, 2021. "Using data envelopment analysis and the bootstrap method to evaluate organ transplantation efficiency in Brazil," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 24(3), pages 569-581, September.
    49. Rolf Färe & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Sequential data envelopment analysis," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 300(1), pages 307-312, May.
    50. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2019. "Data Envelopment Analysis and Business Analytics: The Big Data Challenges and Some Solutions," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072019, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    51. Daraio, Cinzia & Di Leo, Simone & Simar, Léopold, 2024. "Conical FDH Estimators of Directional Distances and Luenberger Productivity Indices for General Technologies," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2024009, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    52. Gearhart Richard, 2019. "The Impact of Secondary Environmental Variables on OECD Healthcare Efficiency: A Robust Conditional Approach," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 19(2), pages 1-16, April.
    53. Guangshun Qiao & Zhan-ao Wang, 2021. "Vertical integration vs. specialization: a nonparametric conditional efficiency estimate for the global semiconductor industry," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 56(2), pages 139-150, December.
    54. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar, 2022. "Approximations and Inference for Nonparametric Production Frontiers," LEM Papers Series 2022/14, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    55. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2020. "Technical, allocative and overall efficiency: Estimation and inference," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 282(3), pages 1164-1176.
    56. Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2020. "Aggregation of inputs and outputs prior to Data Envelopment Analysis under big data," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 282(1), pages 172-187.
    57. Rolf Färe & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2019. "Data Envelopment Analysis and Sequences in Hilbert Spaces," CEPA Working Papers Series WP132019, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    58. Amir Moradi-Motlagh & Ali Emrouznejad, 2022. "The origins and development of statistical approaches in non-parametric frontier models: a survey of the first two decades of scholarly literature (1998–2020)," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 318(1), pages 713-741, November.
    59. Cordero, José Manuel & Pedraja-Chaparro, Francisco & Pisaflores, Elsa C. & Polo, Cristina, 2016. "Efficiency assessment of Portuguese municipalities using a conditional nonparametric approach," MPRA Paper 70674, University Library of Munich, Germany.

  55. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2013. "Estimation and Inference in Nonparametric Frontier Models: Recent Developments and Perspectives," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2013023, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

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    1. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2023. "Productivity analysis: roots, foundations, trends and perspectives," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(3), pages 229-247, December.
    2. Paul W. Wilson & Shirong Zhao, 2023. "Investigating the performance of Chinese banks over 2007–2014," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 321(1), pages 663-692, February.
    3. Matthews, Kent & Xiao, Zhiguo, 2020. "Rational cost inefficiency and convergence in Chinese banks," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 91(C), pages 696-704.
    4. Bernstein, David H. & Parmeter, Christopher F. & Tsionas, Mike G., 2023. "On the performance of the United States nuclear power sector: A Bayesian approach," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 125(C).
    5. Badin, Luiza & Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold, 2018. "A Bootstrap Approach for Bandwidth Selection in Estimating Conditional Efficiency Measures," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018007, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    6. Fabíola Zambom-Ferraresi & Lucía Isabel García-Cebrián & Fernando Lera-López & Belén Iráizoz, 2017. "Performance Evaluation in the UEFA Champions League," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 18(5), pages 448-470, June.
    7. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2020. "Robust efficiency analysis of public hospitals in Queensland, Australia," CEPA Working Papers Series WP052020, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    8. Meryem Duygun & Diego Prior & Mohamed Shaban & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2015. "Disentangling the European Airlines efficiency puzzle:A network data envelopment analysis approach," Working Papers 2015/04, Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain).
    9. Abdelaati Daouia & Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2017. "Measuring firm performance using nonparametric quantile-type distances," Econometric Reviews, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(1-3), pages 156-181, March.
    10. 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.
    11. Shasha Liu & Robin Sickles, 2021. "The agency problem revisited: a structural analysis of managerial productivity and CEO compensation in large US commercial banks," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(1), pages 391-418, January.
    12. Fabíola Zambom-Ferraresi & Belén Iráizoz & Fernando Lera-López, 2019. "Are football managers as efficient as coaches? Performance analysis with and inputs in the Premier league," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(3), pages 303-314, January.
    13. Camilla Mastromarco & Léopold Simar, 2015. "Effect of FDI and Time on Catching Up: New Insights from a Conditional Nonparametric Frontier Analysis," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(5), pages 826-847, August.
    14. Simar, Leopold & Vanhems, Anne & Van Keilegom, Ingrid, 2013. "Unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity in nonparametric frontier estimation," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2013054, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    15. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold, 2014. "Directional distances and their robust versions: Computational and testing issues," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2014012, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    16. K Hervé Dakpo, 2016. "On modeling pollution-generating technologies: a new formulation of the by-production approach," Working Papers SMART 16-06, INRAE UMR SMART.
    17. Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2020. "Improving finite sample approximation by central limit theorems for estimates from Data Envelopment Analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 284(3), pages 1002-1015.
    18. Martine AUDIBERT & Marlène GUILLON & Jacky MATHONNAT, 2018. "The challenge of improving efficiency of Soum Health Centers in Mongolia," Working Papers P226, FERDI.
    19. Richard Gearhart & Lyudmyla Sonchak-Ardan & Nyakundi Michieka, 2022. "The efficiency of COVID cases to COVID policies: a robust conditional approach," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 63(6), pages 2903-2948, December.
    20. Amy Apon & Linh Ngo & Michael Payne & Paul Wilson, 2015. "Assessing the effect of high performance computing capabilities on academic research output," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 48(1), pages 283-312, February.
    21. Daouia, Abdelaati & Florens, Jean-Pierre & Simar, Léopold, 2009. "Regularization of Nonparametric Frontier Estimators," IDEI Working Papers 614, Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse.
    22. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Hypothesis Testing in Nonparametric Models of Production using Multiple Sample Splits," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2019019, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    23. Chen, Zhongfei & Barros, Carlos Pestana & Borges, Maria Rosa, 2015. "A Bayesian stochastic frontier analysis of Chinese fossil-fuel electricity generation companies," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 48(C), pages 136-144.
    24. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2018. "Fast and Efficient Computation of Directional Distance Estimators," LEM Papers Series 2018/21, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    25. Sickles, Robin C. & Song, Wonho & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2018. "Econometric Analysis of Productivity: Theory and Implementation in R," Working Papers 18-008, Rice University, Department of Economics.
    26. Christopher F. Parmeter & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2019. "Combining the Virtues of Stochastic Frontier and Data Envelopment Analysis," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 67(6), pages 1628-1658, November.
    27. Michael L. Polemis & Thanasis Stengos & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2020. "Modeling the effect of competition on US manufacturing sectors’ efficiency: an order-m frontier analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 54(1), pages 27-41, August.
    28. Calogero Guccio & Domenico Lisi & Marco Martorana & Anna Mignosa, 2017. "On the role of cultural participation in tourism destination performance: an assessment using robust conditional efficiency approach," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 41(2), pages 129-154, May.
    29. Moriah B. Bostian & Cinzia Daraio & Rolf Fare & Shawna Grosskopf & Maria Grazia Izzo & Luca Leuzzi & Giancarlo Ruocco & William L. Weber, 2018. "Inference for Nonparametric Productivity Networks: A Pseudo-likelihood Approach," DIAG Technical Reports 2018-06, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza".
    30. Ulaş Ünlü & Neşe Yalçın & Nuri Avşarlıgil, 2022. "Analysis of Efficiency and Productivity of Commercial Banks in Turkey Pre- and during COVID-19 with an Integrated MCDM Approach," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 10(13), pages 1-22, July.
    31. Andor, Mark A. & Parmeter, Christopher & Sommer, Stephan, 2018. "Combining uncertainty with uncertainty to get certainty? Efficiency analysis for regulation purposes," Ruhr Economic Papers 770, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, University of Duisburg-Essen.
    32. Caitlin T. O’Loughlin & Paul W. Wilson, 2021. "Benchmarking the performance of US Municipalities," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2665-2700, June.
    33. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2015. "Statistical Approaches for Nonparametric Frontier Models: A Guided Tour," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2015022, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    34. Wilson, Paul W., 2018. "Dimension reduction in nonparametric models of production," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 267(1), pages 349-367.
    35. Jose M. Cordero & Francisco Pedraja-Chaparro & Elsa C. Pisaflores & Cristina Polo, 2017. "Efficiency assessment of Portuguese municipalities using a conditional nonparametric approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 48(1), pages 1-24, August.
    36. Dakpo, K Hervé, 2016. "On modeling pollution-generating technologies: a new formulation of the by-production approach," Working Papers 245191, Institut National de la recherche Agronomique (INRA), Departement Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et Alimentation, Espace et Environnement (SAE2).
    37. Hampf, Benjamin & Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold, 2015. "Carbon dioxide emission standards for U.S. power plants: An efficiency analysis perspective," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 50(C), pages 140-153.
    38. Mamonov Mikhail E. & Parmeter Christopher F. & Prokhorov Artem B., 2022. "Dependence modeling in stochastic frontier analysis," Dependence Modeling, De Gruyter, vol. 10(1), pages 123-144, January.
    39. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2019. "Data Envelopment Analysis and Business Analytics: The Big Data Challenges and Some Solutions," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072019, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    40. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar, 2022. "Approximations and Inference for Nonparametric Production Frontiers," LEM Papers Series 2022/14, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    41. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2020. "Technical, allocative and overall efficiency: Estimation and inference," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 282(3), pages 1164-1176.
    42. Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2020. "Aggregation of inputs and outputs prior to Data Envelopment Analysis under big data," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 282(1), pages 172-187.
    43. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Performance Analysis: Economic Foundations & Trends," CEPA Working Papers Series WP162021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    44. Madalina STOICA & Anamaria ALDEA, 2016. "Efficiency Of Teaching And Research Activities In Romanian Universities: An Order – Alpha Partial Frontiers Approach," ECONOMIC COMPUTATION AND ECONOMIC CYBERNETICS STUDIES AND RESEARCH, Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics, vol. 50(4), pages 169-186.
    45. Martine Audibert & Marlène Guillon & Jacky Mathonnat, 2018. "The challenge of improving efficiency of Soum Health Centers in Mongolia - What data tell us for Soum Health Centers in five provinces?," Working Papers hal-01795645, HAL.
    46. Leonardo Andrade Rocha & Ahmad Saeed Khan & Patrícia Verônica Pinheiro Sales Lima & Maria Ester Dal Poz & Fernando Porfirio Soares De Oliveira, 2016. "Corrupção, Burocracia E Outras Falhas Institucionais: O “Câncer” Da Inovação E Do Desenvolvimento," Anais do XLIII Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 43rd Brazilian Economics Meeting] 090, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics].
    47. Martine AUDIBERT & Marlène GUILLON & Jacky MATHONNAT, 2018. "The challenge of improving efficiency of Soum Health Centers in Mongolia," Working Papers P226, FERDI.
    48. Vallés-Giménez, Jaime & Zárate-Marco, Anabel, 2017. "Catalytic effect of capital transfers in a federal context: The case of Spanish regions," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), vol. 11, pages 1-27.

  56. Daouia, Abdelaati & Florens, Jean-Pierre & Simar, Leopold, 2012. "Regularization of nonparametric frontier estimators," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2012019, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

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    1. Frédérique Fève & Jean-Pierre Florens & Léopold Simar, 2023. "Proportional incremental cost probability functions and their frontiers," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 64(6), pages 2721-2756, June.
    2. Abdelaati Daouia & Jean-Pierre Florens & Léopold Simar, 2020. "Robust frontier estimation from noisy data: a Tikhonov regularization approach," Post-Print hal-02573853, HAL.
    3. SCHWARZ, Maik & VAN BELLEGEM, Sébastien & FLORENS, Jean - Pierre, 2010. "Nonparametric frontier estimation from noisy data," LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE 2010050, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
    4. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Léopold, 2021. "Latent heterogeneity to evaluate the effect of human capital on world technology frontier," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2021009, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    5. Simar, Leopold & Vanhems, Anne, 2010. "Probabilistic characterization of directional distances and their robust versions," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2010040, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    6. Girard, Stéphane & Guillou, Armelle & Stupfler, Gilles, 2013. "Frontier estimation with kernel regression on high order moments," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 116(C), pages 172-189.
    7. Xia, X.H. & Chen, Y.B. & Li, J.S. & Tasawar, H. & Alsaedi, A. & Chen, G.Q., 2014. "Energy regulation in China: Objective selection, potential assessment and responsibility sharing by partial frontier analysis," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 292-302.
    8. Cazals, Catherine & Feve, Frederique & Florens, Jean-Pierre & Simar, Leopold, 2016. "Non Parametric Instrumental Variables Estimation for Efficiency Frontier," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2016014, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    9. Martins-Filho, Carlos & Ziegelmann, Flávio Augusto & Torrent, Hudson da Silva, 2013. "Local Exponential Frontier Estimation," Brazilian Review of Econometrics, Sociedade Brasileira de Econometria - SBE, vol. 33(2), November.
    10. Florens, Jean-Pierre & Simoni, Anna, 2016. "Regularizing Priors For Linear Inverse Problems," Econometric Theory, Cambridge University Press, vol. 32(1), pages 71-121, February.
    11. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2018. "Fast and Efficient Computation of Directional Distance Estimators," LEM Papers Series 2018/21, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    12. Calogero Guccio & Marco Martorana & Isidoro Mazza & Giacomo Pignataro & Ilde Rizzo, 2019. "An analysis of the efficiency of Italian museums using a generalised conditional efficiency model," ACEI Working Paper Series AWP-06-2019, Association for Cultural Economics International, revised Dec 2019.
    13. Calogero Guccio & Domenico Lisi & Marco Martorana & Anna Mignosa, 2017. "On the role of cultural participation in tourism destination performance: an assessment using robust conditional efficiency approach," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 41(2), pages 129-154, May.
    14. Daouia, Abdelaati & Laurent, Thibault & Noh, Hohsuk, 2015. "npbr: A Package for Nonparametric Boundary Regression in R," TSE Working Papers 15-576, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
    15. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Leopold, 2017. "Cross-Section Dependence and Latent Heterogeneity to Evaluate the Impact of Human Capital on Country Performance," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2017030, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    16. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2015. "Statistical Approaches for Nonparametric Frontier Models: A Guided Tour," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2015022, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    17. Song, Junmo & Oh, Dong-hyun & Kang, Jiwon, 2017. "Robust estimation in stochastic frontier models," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 243-267.
    18. Daouia, Abdelaati & Florens, Jean-Pierre & Simar, Léopold, 2018. "Robustified expected maximum production frontiers," TSE Working Papers 17-890, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
    19. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar, 2022. "Approximations and Inference for Nonparametric Production Frontiers," LEM Papers Series 2022/14, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.

  57. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2011. "Performance of the bootstrap for DEA estimators and iterating the principle," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2011035, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

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    2. Sebastian Kohl & Jan Schoenfelder & Andreas Fügener & Jens O. Brunner, 2019. "The use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in healthcare with a focus on hospitals," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 22(2), pages 245-286, June.
    3. Matthews, Kent & Xiao, Zhiguo, 2020. "Rational cost inefficiency and convergence in Chinese banks," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 91(C), pages 696-704.
    4. Johnes, Jill, 2006. "Data envelopment analysis and its application to the measurement of efficiency in higher education," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 25(3), pages 273-288, June.
    5. Ioanna G. Gkiza & Stefanos A. Nastis, 2017. "Health and Women’s Role in Agricultural Production Efficiency," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 39(3), pages 428-440.
    6. 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.
    7. Puenpatom, R. Amy & Rosenman, Robert, 2006. "Efficiency of Thai Provincial Public Hospitals after the Introduction of National Health Insurance Program," Working Papers 12960, Washington State University, School of Economic Sciences.
    8. W. Cooper & L. Seiford & K. Tone & J. Zhu, 2007. "Some models and measures for evaluating performances with DEA: past accomplishments and future prospects," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 28(3), pages 151-163, December.
    9. Barros, Carlos P. & Liang, Qi Bin & Peypoch, Nicolas, 2013. "The technical efficiency of US Airlines," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 50(C), pages 139-148.
    10. Aldea, Anamaria & Ciobanu, Anamaria & Stancu, Ion, 2012. "The Renewable Energy Development: A Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis," Journal for Economic Forecasting, Institute for Economic Forecasting, vol. 0(1), pages 5-19, March.
    11. Gideon Ndubuisi & Solomon Owusu, 2023. "Trade for catch-up: examining how global value chains participation affects productive efficiency," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 59(2), pages 195-215, April.
    12. J Johnes & L Yu, 2006. "Measuring the research performance of Chinese higher education institutions using data envelopment analysis," Working Papers 577428, Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department.
    13. Greta Falavigna & Roberto Ippoliti & Alessandro Manello, 2012. "Performance of the health care industry: the Italian case study," CERIS Working Paper 201216, CNR-IRCrES Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth - Torino (TO) ITALY - former Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth - Moncalieri (TO) ITALY.
    14. Nazin, Vladimir, 2010. "Nonparametric estimates of technical efficiency of Russian banks and crisis impact," Applied Econometrics, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), vol. 20(4), pages 28-52.
    15. Kohl, Sebastian & Brunner, Jens O., 2020. "Benchmarking the benchmarks – Comparing the accuracy of Data Envelopment Analysis models in constant returns to scale settings," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 285(3), pages 1042-1057.
    16. Mensah, Emmanuel B. & Owusu, Solomon & Foster-McGregor, Neil, 2020. "Productive efficiency, technological change and catch up within Africa," MERIT Working Papers 2020-033, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
    17. Rajitkanok Puenpatom & Robert Rosenman, 2008. "Efficiency of Thai provincial public hospitals during the introduction of universal health coverage using capitation," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 11(4), pages 319-338, December.
    18. Mensah, Emmanuel B. & Owusu, Solomon & Foster-McGregor, Neil, 2023. "Productive efficiency, structural change, and catch-up within Africa," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 78-100.
    19. Dakpo, K.H. & Vincent, M. & Boussemart, J.-P., 2018. "Spatial aggregation of land uses allocation and pesticide efficiency at landscape level A Multi-ware production approach," 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia 277258, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    20. Zhang, Chonghui & Jiang, Nanyue & Su, Tiantian & Chen, Ji & Streimikiene, Dalia & Balezentis, Tomas, 2022. "Spreading knowledge and technology: Research efficiency at universities based on the three-stage MCDM-NRSDEA method with bootstrapping," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).
    21. Zhang, Chunqin & Juan, Zhicai & Xiao, Guangnian, 2015. "Do contractual practices affect technical efficiency? Evidence from public transport operators in China," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 80(C), pages 39-55.

  58. Simar, Leopold & Vanhems, Anne & Wilson, Paul W., 2011. "Statistical Inference for DEA Estimators of Directional Distances," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2011035, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Caitlin O’Loughlin & Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2023. "Methodologies for assessing government efficiency," Chapters, in: António Afonso & João Tovar Jalles & Ana Venâncio (ed.), Handbook on Public Sector Efficiency, chapter 4, pages 72-101, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. George Halkos & Roman Matousek & Nickolaos Tzeremes, 2016. "Pre-evaluating technical efficiency gains from possible mergers and acquisitions: evidence from Japanese regional banks," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 46(1), pages 47-77, January.
    3. Minegishi, Kota, 2014. "Integrating Efficiency Concepts in Technology Approximation: A Weighted DEA Approach," 2014 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota 170277, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    4. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2021. "Quality as a latent heterogeneity factor in the efficiency of universities," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
    5. Mike G. Tsionas, 2017. "“When, Where, and How” of Efficiency Estimation: Improved Procedures for Stochastic Frontier Modeling," Journal of the American Statistical Association, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 112(519), pages 948-965, July.
    6. Alois Kneip & Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2016. "Testing Hypotheses in Nonparametric Models of Production," Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(3), pages 435-456, July.
    7. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Quality and its impact on efficiency," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2019004, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    8. Ke Wang & Yujiao Xian & Chia-Yen Lee & Yi-Ming Wei & Zhimin Huang, 2019. "On selecting directions for directional distance functions in a non-parametric framework: a review," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 278(1), pages 43-76, July.
    9. Tziogkidis, Panagiotis & Philippas, Dionisis & Leontitsis, Alexandros & Sickles, Robin C., 2020. "A data envelopment analysis and local partial least squares approach for identifying the optimal innovation policy direction," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 285(3), pages 1011-1024.
    10. Aparicio, Juan & Pastor, Jesús & Zofío, José Luis, 2013. "How to properly decompose economic efficiency using technical and allocative criteria with non-homothetic DEA technologies," Working Papers in Economic Theory 2013/11, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Department of Economic Analysis (Economic Theory and Economic History).
    11. Kneip, Alois & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2015. "When Bias Kills The Variance: Central Limit Theorems For Dea And Fdh Efficiency Scores," Econometric Theory, Cambridge University Press, vol. 31(2), pages 394-422, April.
    12. Camilla Mastromarco & Léopold Simar, 2015. "Effect of FDI and Time on Catching Up: New Insights from a Conditional Nonparametric Frontier Analysis," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(5), pages 826-847, August.
    13. Arabmaldar, A. & Sahoo, B.K. & Ghiyasi, M., 2023. "A generalized robust data envelopment analysis model based on directional distance function," Publications of Darmstadt Technical University, Institute for Business Studies (BWL) 138962, Darmstadt Technical University, Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law, Institute for Business Studies (BWL).
    14. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2018. "Technical, Allocative and Overall Efficiency: Inference and Hypothesis Testing," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018018, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    15. Leontitsis, Alexandros & Philippas, Dionisis & Sickles, Robin C. & Tziogkidis, Panagiotis, 2018. "Evaluating countries’ innovation potential: an international perspective," Working Papers 18-011, Rice University, Department of Economics.
    16. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold, 2014. "Directional distances and their robust versions: Computational and testing issues," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2014012, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    17. Simar, Léopold & W. Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Central limit theorems and inference for sources of productivity change measured by nonparametric Malmquist indices," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 277(2), pages 756-769.
    18. Fangqing Wei & Junfei Chu & Jiayun Song & Feng Yang, 2019. "A cross-bargaining game approach for direction selection in the directional distance function," OR Spectrum: Quantitative Approaches in Management, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V., vol. 41(3), pages 787-807, September.
    19. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk & Shirong Zhao, 2023. "Russell and Slack-Based Measures of Efficiency: A Unifying Framework," CEPA Working Papers Series WP092023, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    20. Hampf, Benjamin & Krüger, Jens J., 2013. "Optimal directions for directional distance functions: An exploration of potential reductions of greenhouse gases," Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics 216, Darmstadt University of Technology, Department of Law and Economics.
    21. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Hypothesis Testing in Nonparametric Models of Production using Multiple Sample Splits," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2019019, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    22. 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.
    23. Branda, Martin, 2015. "Diversification-consistent data envelopment analysis based on directional-distance measures," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 52(C), pages 65-76.
    24. Duan, Na & Guo, Jun-Peng & Xie, Bai-Chen, 2016. "Is there a difference between the energy and CO2 emission performance for China’s thermal power industry? A bootstrapped directional distance function approach," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 162(C), pages 1552-1563.
    25. Sahoo, Nihar R. & Mohapatra, Pratap K.J. & Sahoo, Biresh K. & Mahanty, Biswajit, 2017. "Rationality of energy efficiency improvement targets under the PAT scheme in India – A case of thermal power plants," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 279-289.
    26. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2018. "Fast and Efficient Computation of Directional Distance Estimators," LEM Papers Series 2018/21, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    27. Hampf, Benjamin & Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold, 2014. "Carbon dioxide emission standards for US power plants: An efficiency analysis perspective," Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics 219, Darmstadt University of Technology, Department of Law and Economics.
    28. Manh D. Pham & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2016. "Slack-based directional distance function in the presence of bad outputs: Theory and Application to Vietnamese Banking," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072016, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    29. Jens J. Krüger & Moritz Tarach, 2022. "Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Potentials in Europe by Sector: A Bootstrap-Based Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 81(4), pages 867-898, April.
    30. Juan Aparicio & José L. Zofío, 2017. "Revisiting the decomposition of cost efficiency for non-homothetic technologies: a directional distance function approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 48(2), pages 133-146, December.
    31. Xia, Fan & Xu, Jintao, 2020. "Green total factor productivity: A re-examination of quality of growth for provinces in China," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 62(C).
    32. Kapelko, M. & Horta, I.M. & Camanho, A.S. & Oude Lansink, A., 2015. "Measurement of input-specific productivity growth with an application to the construction industry in Spain and Portugal," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 166(C), pages 64-71.
    33. Juan Aparicio & Magdalena Kapelko & Lidia Ortiz, 2021. "Modelling environmental inefficiency under a quota system," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 21(2), pages 1097-1124, June.
    34. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2015. "Statistical Approaches for Nonparametric Frontier Models: A Guided Tour," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2015022, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    35. Minegishi, Kota, 2013. "Explaining Production Heterogeneity By Contextual Environments: Two-Stage DEA Application to Technical Change Measurement," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150289, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    36. Hampf, Benjamin & Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold, 2015. "Carbon dioxide emission standards for U.S. power plants: An efficiency analysis perspective," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 50(C), pages 140-153.
    37. Paulo Matos & Guilherme Padilha & Maurício Benegas, 2016. "On the management efficiency of Brazilian stock mutual funds," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 16(3), pages 365-399, October.
    38. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2019. "Data Envelopment Analysis and Business Analytics: The Big Data Challenges and Some Solutions," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072019, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    39. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar, 2014. "Efficiency and benchmarking with directional distances. A data driven approach," DIAG Technical Reports 2014-07, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza".
    40. Bruno, Clementina & Manello, Alessandro, 2015. "Benchmarking and effects of reforms in the fixed telecommunications industry: A DDF approach," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 39(2), pages 127-139.
    41. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar, 2022. "Approximations and Inference for Nonparametric Production Frontiers," LEM Papers Series 2022/14, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    42. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2020. "Technical, allocative and overall efficiency: Estimation and inference," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 282(3), pages 1164-1176.
    43. Magdalena Kapelko & Alfons Oude Lansink & Spiro E Stefanou, 2015. "Effect of Food Regulation on the Spanish Food Processing Industry: A Dynamic Productivity Analysis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(6), pages 1-16, June.
    44. Xiangxiang Sun & Lawrence Loh, 2019. "Sustainability Governance in China: An Analysis of Regional Ecological Efficiency," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(7), pages 1-16, April.
    45. Amir Moradi-Motlagh & Ali Emrouznejad, 2022. "The origins and development of statistical approaches in non-parametric frontier models: a survey of the first two decades of scholarly literature (1998–2020)," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 318(1), pages 713-741, November.
    46. Falavigna, Greta & Ippoliti, Roberto & Manello, Alessandro & Ramello, Giovanni B., 2015. "Judicial productivity, delay and efficiency: A Directional Distance Function (DDF) approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 240(2), pages 592-601.
    47. Dakpo, K.H. & Vincent, M. & Boussemart, J.-P., 2018. "Spatial aggregation of land uses allocation and pesticide efficiency at landscape level A Multi-ware production approach," 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia 277258, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    48. Kumbhakar, Subal C. & Lai, Hung-pin, 2016. "Maximum likelihood estimation of the revenue function system with output-specific technical efficiency," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 138(C), pages 42-45.
    49. Thanassoulis, Emmanuel & Silva Portela, Maria & Graveney, Mike, 2016. "Identifying the scope for savings at inpatient episode level: An illustration applying DEA to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 255(2), pages 570-582.
    50. 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.
    51. Thyago Celso Cavalcante Nepomuceno & Katarina Tatiana Marques Santiago & Cinzia Daraio & Ana Paula Cabral Seixas Costa, 2022. "Exogenous crimes and the assessment of public safety efficiency and effectiveness," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 316(2), pages 1349-1382, September.

  59. Simar, Leopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2011. "To Smooth or Not to Smooth? The Case of Discrete Variables in Nonparametric Regressions," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2011042, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Li, Degui & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2016. "Generalized nonparametric smoothing with mixed discrete and continuous data," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 100(C), pages 424-444.
    2. Jeffrey S. Racine, 2016. "A Correction to "Generalized Nonparametric Smoothing with Mixed Discrete and Continuous Data" by Li, Simar & Zelenyuk (2014, CSDA)," Department of Economics Working Papers 2016-01, McMaster University.

  60. Daniel , Betty C & Hafner, Christian & Manner, Hans & Simar, Leopold, 2011. "Asymmetries in Business Cycles and the Role of Oil Production," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2011032, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Claudio Morana, 2012. "The Oil price-Macroeconomy Relationship since the Mid- 1980s: A global perspective," Working Papers 2012.28, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.

  61. Kneip, Alois & Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2011. "Computational Efficient, Consistent Bootstrap for Inference with Non-parametric DEA Estimators," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2011030, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Matthews, Kent & Xiao, Zhiguo, 2020. "Rational cost inefficiency and convergence in Chinese banks," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 91(C), pages 696-704.
    2. George Halkos & Roman Matousek & Nickolaos Tzeremes, 2016. "Pre-evaluating technical efficiency gains from possible mergers and acquisitions: evidence from Japanese regional banks," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 46(1), pages 47-77, January.
    3. Badin, Luiza & Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold, 2014. "Explaining inefficiency in nonparametric production models: the state of the art," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2014005, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    4. Galina Besstremyannaya & Jaak Simm, 2015. "Robust non-parametric estimation of cost efficiency with an application to banking industry," Working Papers w0217, New Economic School (NES).
    5. Léopold Simar & Paul Wilson, 2011. "Two-stage DEA: caveat emptor," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 36(2), pages 205-218, October.
    6. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2018. "Improving Finite Sample Approximation by Central Limit Theorems for DEA and FDH efficiency scores," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072018, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    7. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Data Sharpening for improving CLT approximations for DEA-type efficiency estimators," CEPA Working Papers Series WP142021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    8. Galina Besstremyannaya & Jaak Simm & Sergei Golovan, 2017. "Robust estimation of cost efficiency in non-parametric frontier models," Working Papers w0244, Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR).
    9. Nguyen, Bao Hoang & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2022. "Data sharpening for improving central limit theorem approximations for data envelopment analysis–type efficiency estimators," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(3), pages 1469-1480.
    10. Léopold Simar & Paul Wilson, 2011. "Inference by the m out of n bootstrap in nonparametric frontier models," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 36(1), pages 33-53, August.
    11. Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2020. "Improving finite sample approximation by central limit theorems for estimates from Data Envelopment Analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 284(3), pages 1002-1015.
    12. José Solana‐Ibáñez & Manuel Caravaca‐Garratón, 2021. "Stakeholder engagement and corporate social reputation: The influence of exogenous factors on efficiency performance (stakeholder engagement and exogenous factors): Stakeholder engagement and exogenou," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 28(6), pages 1891-1905, November.
    13. Simar, Léopold & Vanhems, Anne & Wilson, Paul W., 2012. "Statistical inference for DEA estimators of directional distances," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 220(3), pages 853-864.
    14. Nolwenn Roudaut & Anne Vanhems, 2012. "Explaining firms efficiency in the Ivorian manufacturing sector: a robust nonparametric approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 37(2), pages 155-169, April.
    15. Amy Apon & Linh Ngo & Michael Payne & Paul Wilson, 2015. "Assessing the effect of high performance computing capabilities on academic research output," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 48(1), pages 283-312, February.
    16. Jin, Baoling & Han, Ying & Kou, Po, 2023. "Dynamically evaluating the comprehensive efficiency of technological innovation and low-carbon economy in China's industrial sectors," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
    17. Brida, Juan Gabriel & Ladós, Valentina & Sicilia, Gabriela, 2021. "Eficiencia innovadora en el sector servicios: el caso de Uruguay. || Innovative efficiency in the service sector: the case of Uruguay," 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. 31(1), pages 240-258, June.
    18. Pham, Manh D. & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2019. "Weak disposability in nonparametric production analysis: A new taxonomy of reference technology sets," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 274(1), pages 186-198.
    19. Duan, Na & Guo, Jun-Peng & Xie, Bai-Chen, 2016. "Is there a difference between the energy and CO2 emission performance for China’s thermal power industry? A bootstrapped directional distance function approach," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 162(C), pages 1552-1563.
    20. Galina Besstremyannaya & Jaak Simm, 2015. "Robust non-parametric estimation of cost efficiency with an application to banking industry," Working Papers w0217, Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR).
    21. Ibrahim Alnafrah, 2021. "Efficiency evaluation of BRICS’s national innovation systems based on bias-corrected network data envelopment analysis," Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Springer, vol. 10(1), pages 1-28, December.
    22. Ananda, Jayanath & Gitto, Simone & Mancuso, Paolo, 2013. "Ownership, Productivity Change in the Australian Urban Water Sector: a Bootstrap Malmquist indices approach," MPRA Paper 50384, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    23. Michali, Maria & Emrouznejad, Ali & Dehnokhalaji, Akram & Clegg, Ben, 2023. "Subsampling bootstrap in network DEA," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 305(2), pages 766-780.
    24. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul, 2022. "Another Look at Productivity Growth in Industrialized Countries," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022028, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    25. Raul Moragues & Juan Aparicio & Miriam Esteve, 2023. "Measuring technical efficiency for multi-input multi-output production processes through OneClass Support Vector Machines: a finite-sample study," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 23(3), pages 1-33, September.
    26. Song, Malin & Zhang, Jie & Wang, Shuhong, 2015. "Review of the network environmental efficiencies of listed petroleum enterprises in China," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 43(C), pages 65-71.
    27. Vivian G. Valdmanis & Michael D. Rosko & Hervé Leleu & Dana B. Mukamel, 2017. "Assessing overall, technical, and scale efficiency among home health care agencies," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 20(2), pages 265-275, June.
    28. Caitlin T. O’Loughlin & Paul W. Wilson, 2021. "Benchmarking the performance of US Municipalities," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2665-2700, June.
    29. Zervopoulos, Panagiotis & Emrouznejad, Ali & Sklavos, Sokratis, 2019. "A Bayesian approach for correcting bias of data envelopment analysis estimators," MPRA Paper 91886, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    30. F. Wu & P. Zhou & D. Zhou, 2015. "Measuring Energy Congestion in Chinese Industrial Sectors: A Slacks-Based DEA Approach," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 46(3), pages 479-494, October.
    31. Galina Besstremyannaya & Jaak Simm & Sergei Golovan, 2017. "Robust estimation of cost efficiency in non-parametric frontier models," Working Papers w0244, New Economic School (NES).
    32. Zervopoulos, Panagiotis D. & Brisimi, Theodora S. & Emrouznejad, Ali & Cheng, Gang, 2016. "Performance measurement with multiple interrelated variables and threshold target levels: Evidence from retail firms in the US," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 250(1), pages 262-272.
    33. 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.
    34. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2020. "Technical, allocative and overall efficiency: Estimation and inference," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 282(3), pages 1164-1176.
    35. Ram Pratap Sinha, 2017. "Efficiency-solvency linkage of Indian general insurance companies: a robust non-parametric approach," Eurasian Economic Review, Springer;Eurasia Business and Economics Society, vol. 7(3), pages 353-370, December.
    36. Degl’Innocenti, Marta & Matousek, Roman & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2019. "The interconnections of academic research and universities’ “third mission”: Evidence from the UK," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(9), pages 1-1.
    37. Davtalab-Olyaie, Mostafa & Asgharian, Masoud & Nia, Vahid Partovi, 2019. "Stochastic ranking and dominance in DEA," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 214(C), pages 125-138.

  62. Schubert, Torben & Simar, Leopold, 2011. "Innovation and export activities in the German mechanical engineering sector: an application of testing restrictions in production analysis," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2011028, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Anne Neumann & Maria Nieswand & Torben Schubert, 2013. "Estimating Alternative Technology Sets in Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis: Restriction Tests for Panel and Clustered Data," RSCAS Working Papers 2013/13, European University Institute.
    2. Derya Findik & Berna Beyhan, 2017. "A Perceptual Measure of Innovation Performance: Firm-Level Evidence from Turkey," International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 14(06), pages 1-19, December.
    3. Simar, Léopold & Vanhems, Anne & Wilson, Paul W., 2012. "Statistical inference for DEA estimators of directional distances," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 220(3), pages 853-864.
    4. Nolwenn Roudaut & Anne Vanhems, 2012. "Explaining firms efficiency in the Ivorian manufacturing sector: a robust nonparametric approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 37(2), pages 155-169, April.
    5. Fındık, Derya & Beyhan, Berna, 2014. "A Perceptual Measure of Innovation Performance: Micro Level Evidence from Turkey," MPRA Paper 60961, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Ahlin, Lina & Andersson, Martin & Schubert , Torben, 2013. "Implementing an R&D Strategy without Prior R&D-Experience Recruitment as a Source of R&D-related Routines and Capabilities?," Papers in Innovation Studies 2013/3, Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research.
    7. Jafari Sadeghi, Vahid & Biancone, Paolo Pietro, 2018. "How micro, small and medium-sized enterprises are driven outward the superior international trade performance? A multidimensional study on Italian food sector," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 597-606.
    8. Stefan Seifert, 2014. "Effizienzanalysemethoden in der Regulierung deutscher Elektrizitäts- und Gasversorgungsunternehmen," DIW Roundup: Politik im Fokus 40, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    9. Gao, Jingyi & Ren, Yuanming, 2023. "Does innovation save more energy? Evidence from Chinese Firms," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 85(C), pages 638-646.
    10. Neuhäusler , Peter & Schubert, Torben & Frietsch , Rainer & Blind , Knut, 2015. "Managing Portfolio Risk in Strategic Technology Management: Evidence from a Panel Data Set of the World’s Largest R&D Performers," Papers in Innovation Studies 2015/41, Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research.

  63. Florens , Mark & Simar, Leopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid, 2011. "Frontier estimation in nonparametric location-scale models," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2011030, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

    Cited by:

    1. Frédérique Fève & Jean-Pierre Florens & Léopold Simar, 2023. "Proportional incremental cost probability functions and their frontiers," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 64(6), pages 2721-2756, June.
    2. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2016. "Nonparametric Estimation of Efficiency in the Presence of Environmental Variables," DIAG Technical Reports 2016-02, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza".
    3. Jose M. Cordero & Cristina Polo & Daniel Santín, 2020. "Assessment of new methods for incorporating contextual variables into efficiency measures: a Monte Carlo simulation," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 20(4), pages 2245-2265, December.
    4. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Léopold, 2021. "Latent heterogeneity to evaluate the effect of human capital on world technology frontier," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2021009, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
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    36. Raimundo Soto & Rosalía Vásquez, 2011. "The Efficiency Cost of the Kafala in Dubai: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis," Documentos de Trabajo 399, Instituto de Economia. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile..
    37. Paitoon Wiboonchutikula & Chayanon Phucharoen & Nuchit Pruektanakul, 2016. "Spillover Effects Of Foreign Direct Investment On Domestic Manufacturing Firms In Thailand," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 61(02), pages 1-32, June.
    38. Stead, Alexander D. & Wheat, Phill & Greene, William H., 2023. "Robust maximum likelihood estimation of stochastic frontier models," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 309(1), pages 188-201.

  71. Park, Byeong U. & Simar, Leopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2010. "Local maximum likelihood techniques with categorical data," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2010052, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

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    1. Li, Degui & Simar, Leopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2013. "To Smooth or Not to Smooth? The Case of Discrete Variables in Nonparametric Regression," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2013025, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    2. Marijn Verschelde & Michel Dumont & Glenn Rayp & Bruno Merlevede, 2015. "Semiparametric stochastic metafrontier efficiency of European manufacturing firms," Post-Print hal-01563023, HAL.
    3. Li, Degui & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2016. "Generalized nonparametric smoothing with mixed discrete and continuous data," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 100(C), pages 424-444.

  72. Kneip, A. & Simar, L. & Van Keilegom I., 2010. "Boundary estimation in the presence of measurement error with unknown variance," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2010046, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

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    1. Dai, Xiaofeng, 2016. "Non-parametric efficiency estimation using Richardson–Lucy blind deconvolution," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 248(2), pages 731-739.
    2. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2015. "Statistical Approaches for Nonparametric Frontier Models: A Guided Tour," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2015022, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

  73. Jeong, Seok-Oh & Park, Byeong U. & Simar, Leopold, 2010. "Nonparametric conditional efficiency measures: asymptotic properties," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2010004, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

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    1. Caitlin O’Loughlin & Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2023. "Methodologies for assessing government efficiency," Chapters, in: António Afonso & João Tovar Jalles & Ana Venâncio (ed.), Handbook on Public Sector Efficiency, chapter 4, pages 72-101, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. Frédérique Fève & Jean-Pierre Florens & Léopold Simar, 2023. "Proportional incremental cost probability functions and their frontiers," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 64(6), pages 2721-2756, June.
    3. Badin, Luiza & Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold, 2018. "A Bootstrap Approach for Bandwidth Selection in Estimating Conditional Efficiency Measures," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018007, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    4. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2016. "Nonparametric Estimation of Efficiency in the Presence of Environmental Variables," DIAG Technical Reports 2016-02, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza".
    5. Nguyen, Trang T.T. & Prior, Diego & Van Hemmen, Stefan, 2020. "Stochastic semi-nonparametric frontier approach for tax administration efficiency measure: Evidence from a cross-country study," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 137-153.
    6. Halkos, George & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2012. "Economic growth and environmental efficiency: Evidence from U.S. regions," MPRA Paper 42675, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    7. Badin, Luiza & Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold, 2014. "Explaining inefficiency in nonparametric production models: the state of the art," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2014005, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    8. Jose M. Cordero & Cristina Polo & Daniel Santín, 2020. "Assessment of new methods for incorporating contextual variables into efficiency measures: a Monte Carlo simulation," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 20(4), pages 2245-2265, December.
    9. Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2018. "Financial Development and Countries’ Production Efficiency: A Nonparametric Analysis," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-13, August.
    10. Simar, Leopold & Vanhems, Anne, 2010. "Probabilistic characterization of directional distances and their robust versions," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2010040, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    11. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2015. "Testing the "Separability" Condition in Two-Stage Nonparametric Models of Production," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2015018, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    12. Florens, Jean-Pierre & Simar, Léopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid, 2014. "Frontier estimation in nonparametric location-scale models," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 178(P3), pages 456-470.
    13. Léopold Simar & Paul Wilson, 2011. "Two-stage DEA: caveat emptor," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 36(2), pages 205-218, October.
    14. Halkos, George & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2011. "A conditional full frontier modelling for analyzing environmental efficiency and economic growth," MPRA Paper 32839, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    15. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2021. "Predicting recessions with a frontier measure of output gap: an application to Italian economy," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2021010, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    16. Endre Bjoerndal & Mette Bjoerndal & Astrid Cullmann & Maria Nieswand, 2016. "Finding the Right Yardstick: Regulation under Heterogeneous Environments," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 1555, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    17. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Léopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid, 2022. "Estimating Nonparametric Conditional Frontiers and Efficiencies: A New Approach," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022035, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    18. Kneip, Alois & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2015. "When Bias Kills The Variance: Central Limit Theorems For Dea And Fdh Efficiency Scores," Econometric Theory, Cambridge University Press, vol. 31(2), pages 394-422, April.
    19. Camilla Mastromarco & Léopold Simar, 2015. "Effect of FDI and Time on Catching Up: New Insights from a Conditional Nonparametric Frontier Analysis," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(5), pages 826-847, August.
    20. Camilla Mastromarco & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2019. "Predicting Recessions: A New Measure of Output Gap as Predictor," CEPA Working Papers Series WP112019, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    21. José Manuel Cordero & Daniel Santín & Rosa Simancas, 2017. "Assessing European primary school performance through a conditional nonparametric model," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 68(4), pages 364-376, April.
    22. Halkos, George & Bampatsou, Christina, 2017. "Technical efficiency, productivity change and environmental degradation," MPRA Paper 77176, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    23. Bădin, Luiza & Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Léopold, 2012. "How to measure the impact of environmental factors in a nonparametric production model," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 223(3), pages 818-833.
    24. Simar, Leopold & Vanhems, Anne & Van Keilegom, Ingrid, 2013. "Unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity in nonparametric frontier estimation," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2013054, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    25. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold, 2014. "Directional distances and their robust versions: Computational and testing issues," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2014012, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    26. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul, 2022. "Modern Tools for Evaluating the Performance of Health-Care Providers," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022006, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    27. Dimitris KALLIORAS & Nickolaos TZEREMES & Panayiotis TZEREMES & Maria ADAMAKOU, 2021. "Technological Change, Technological Catch-Up And Market Potential: Evidence From The Eu Regions," Regional Science Inquiry, Hellenic Association of Regional Scientists, vol. 0(1), pages 135-151, June.
    28. De Witte, K. & Rogge, N., 2010. "To publish or not to publish? On the aggregation and drivers of research performance," Working Papers 33, Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research.
    29. Haelermans, Carla & De Witte, Kristof, 2012. "The role of innovations in secondary school performance – Evidence from a conditional efficiency model," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 223(2), pages 541-549.
    30. David C. Broadstock & Shunsuke Managi & Roman Matousek & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2019. "Does doing “good” always translate into doing “well”? An eco‐efficiency perspective," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(6), pages 1199-1217, September.
    31. José Solana‐Ibáñez & Manuel Caravaca‐Garratón, 2021. "Stakeholder engagement and corporate social reputation: The influence of exogenous factors on efficiency performance (stakeholder engagement and exogenous factors): Stakeholder engagement and exogenou," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 28(6), pages 1891-1905, November.
    32. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Leopold, 2018. "Globalization and productivity: A robust nonparametric world frontier analysis," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2018008, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    33. Amy Apon & Linh Ngo & Michael Payne & Paul Wilson, 2015. "Assessing the effect of high performance computing capabilities on academic research output," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 48(1), pages 283-312, February.
    34. Marques, Rui Cunha & De Witte, Kristof, 2011. "Is big better? On scale and scope economies in the Portuguese water sector," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 28(3), pages 1009-1016, May.
    35. Tiziana DíAlfonso & Cinzia Daraio & Alberto Nastasi, 2013. "Assesing the Impact of Competition on the Efficiency of Italian Airports," DIAG Technical Reports 2013-01, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza".
    36. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Hypothesis Testing in Nonparametric Models of Production using Multiple Sample Splits," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2019019, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    37. Asatryan, Zareh & De Witte, Kristof, 2015. "Direct democracy and local government efficiency," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 39(C), pages 58-66.
    38. Cordero, Jose Manuel & Polo, Cristina & Simancas, Rosa, 2022. "Assessing the efficiency of secondary schools: Evidence from OECD countries participating in PISA 2015," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    39. Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2019. "Technological change, technological catch-up and export orientation: evidence from Latin American Countries," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 52(1), pages 85-100, December.
    40. Rogge, Nicky & De Jaeger, Simon, 2013. "Measuring and explaining the cost efficiency of municipal solid waste collection and processing services," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 41(4), pages 653-664.
    41. Bjørndal, Endre & Bjørndal, Mette & Cullmann, Astrid & Nieswand, Maria, 2018. "Finding the right yardstick: Regulation of electricity networks under heterogeneous environments," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 265(2), pages 710-722.
    42. Bernardino Benito & José Solana & María-Rocío Moreno, 2014. "Explaining efficiency in municipal services providers," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 42(3), pages 225-239, December.
    43. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2018. "Fast and Efficient Computation of Directional Distance Estimators," LEM Papers Series 2018/21, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    44. Vidoli, Francesco & Canello, Jacopo, 2016. "Controlling for spatial heterogeneity in nonparametric efficiency models: An empirical proposal," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 249(2), pages 771-783.
    45. Baležentis, Tomas & De Witte, Kristof, 2015. "One- and multi-directional conditional efficiency measurement – Efficiency in Lithuanian family farms," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 245(2), pages 612-622.
    46. Camilla Mastromarco & Lenka Stastna & Jana Votapkova, 2019. "Efficiency of hospitals in the Czech Republic: Conditional efficiency approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 51(1), pages 73-89, February.
    47. Cordero, José Manuel & Salinas-Jiménez, Javier & Salinas-Jiménez, M Mar, 2017. "Exploring factors affecting the level of happiness across countries: A conditional robust nonparametric frontier analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 256(2), pages 663-672.
    48. George Halkos & Shunsuke Managi & Nickolaos Tzeremes, 2015. "The effect of natural and man-made disasters on countries’ production efficiency," Journal of Economic Structures, Springer;Pan-Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies (PAPAIOS), vol. 4(1), pages 1-13, December.
    49. Michael L. Polemis & Thanasis Stengos & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2020. "Modeling the effect of competition on US manufacturing sectors’ efficiency: an order-m frontier analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 54(1), pages 27-41, August.
    50. Broadstock, David C. & Matousek, Roman & Meyer, Martin & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2020. "Does corporate social responsibility impact firms' innovation capacity? The indirect link between environmental & social governance implementation and innovation performance," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 119(C), pages 99-110.
    51. George Halkos & Nickolaos Tzeremes, 2014. "Measuring the effect of Kyoto protocol agreement on countries’ environmental efficiency in CO 2 emissions: an application of conditional full frontiers," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 41(3), pages 367-382, June.
    52. De Witte, Kristof & Rogge, Nicky, 2011. "Accounting for exogenous influences in performance evaluations of teachers," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 30(4), pages 641-653, August.
    53. Yauheniya Varabyova & Carl Rudolf Blankart & Aleksandra Torbica & Jonas Schreyögg, 2017. "Comparing the Efficiency of Hospitals in Italy and Germany: Nonparametric Conditional Approach Based on Partial Frontier," Health Care Management Science, Springer, vol. 20(3), pages 379-394, September.
    54. Halkos, George & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2012. "Public sector transparency and countries’ environmental performance: A nonparametric analysis," MPRA Paper 39553, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    55. Matousek, Roman & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2016. "CEO compensation and bank efficiency: An application of conditional nonparametric frontiers," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 251(1), pages 264-273.
    56. Kevork, Ilias S. & Pange, Jenny & Tzeremes, Panayiotis & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2017. "Estimating Malmquist productivity indexes using probabilistic directional distances: An application to the European banking sector," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 261(3), pages 1125-1140.
    57. Tom Broekel & Nicky Rogge & Thomas Brenner, 2013. "The innovation efficiency of German regions - a shared-input DEA approach," Working Papers on Innovation and Space 2013-08, Philipps University Marburg, Department of Geography.
    58. Ang, Frederic & Jan Kerstens, Pieter, 2016. "To mix or specialise? A coordination productivity indicator for English and Welsh farms," 90th Annual Conference, April 4-6, 2016, Warwick University, Coventry, UK 236337, Agricultural Economics Society.
    59. Halkos, George & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2011. "Applying conditional DEA to measure football clubs’ performance: Evidence from the top 25 European clubs," MPRA Paper 31278, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    60. Halkos, George & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2012. "A conditional directional distance function approach for measuring regional environmental efficiency: Evidence from the UK regions," MPRA Paper 38147, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    61. Halkos, George & Sundström, Aksel & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2013. "Environmental performance and quality of governance: A non-parametric analysis of the NUTS 1-regions in France, Germany and the UK," MPRA Paper 48890, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    62. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2015. "Statistical Approaches for Nonparametric Frontier Models: A Guided Tour," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2015022, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    63. Jose M. Cordero & Francisco Pedraja-Chaparro & Elsa C. Pisaflores & Cristina Polo, 2017. "Efficiency assessment of Portuguese municipalities using a conditional nonparametric approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 48(1), pages 1-24, August.
    64. Degl'Innocenti, Marta & Grant, Kevin & Šević, Aleksandar & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2018. "Financial stability, competitiveness and banks' innovation capacity: Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 35-46.
    65. George Halkos & Nickolaos Tzeremes, 2013. "National culture and eco-efficiency: an application of conditional partial nonparametric frontiers," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Springer;Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - SEEPS, vol. 15(4), pages 423-441, October.
    66. George Halkos & Aksel Sundström & Nickolaos Tzeremes, 2015. "Regional environmental performance and governance quality: a nonparametric analysis," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Springer;Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - SEEPS, vol. 17(4), pages 621-644, October.
    67. Halkos, George & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2013. "Renewable energy consumption and economic efficiency: Evidence from European countries," MPRA Paper 44136, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    68. Sushanta Mallick & Aarti Rughoo & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes & Wei Xu, 2020. "Technological Change and Catching-Up in the Indian Banking Sector: A Time-Dependent Nonparametric Frontier Approach," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 56(1), pages 217-237, June.
    69. Halkos, George & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2012. "Regional economic growth and environmental efficiency in greenhouse emissions: A conditional directional distance function approach," MPRA Paper 40015, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    70. Maria Nieswand & Stefan Seifert, 2016. "Operational Conditions in Regulatory Benchmarking Models: A Monte Carlo Analysis," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 1585, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    71. De Witte, Kristof & Geys, Benny, 2012. "Citizen coproduction and efficient public good provision: Theory and evidence from local public libraries," Discussion Papers, Research Professorship & Project "The Future of Fiscal Federalism" SP II 2012-108, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    72. Ferreira, Diogo Cunha & Marques, Rui Cunha & Pedro, Maria Isabel, 2018. "Explanatory variables driving the technical efficiency of European seaports: An order-α approach dealing with imperfect knowledge," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 119(C), pages 41-62.
    73. Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2015. "Efficiency dynamics in Indian banking: A conditional directional distance approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 240(3), pages 807-818.
    74. Eni Dardha & Nicky Rogge, 2020. "How's Life in Your Region? Measuring Regional Material Living Conditions, Quality of Life and Subjective Well-Being in OECD Countries Using a Robust, Conditional Benefit-of-the-Doubt Model," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 151(3), pages 1015-1073, October.
    75. Nieswand, Maria & Seifert, Stefan, 2018. "Environmental factors in frontier estimation – A Monte Carlo analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 265(1), pages 133-148.
    76. Julián Ramajo & José Manuel Cordero & Miguel Ángel Márquez, 2017. "European regional efficiency and geographical externalities: a spatial nonparametric frontier analysis," Journal of Geographical Systems, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 319-348, October.
    77. Polemis, Michael & Stengos, Thanasis & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2018. "Modeling the effect of competition using robust conditional nonparametric frontiers: Evidence from U.S. manufacturing sector," MPRA Paper 89240, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    78. Bampatsou, Christina & Halkos, George, 2018. "Dynamics of productivity taking into consideration the impact of energy consumption and environmental degradation," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 120(C), pages 276-283.
    79. Mohottala G. Kularatne & Namal N. Balasooriya & Sean Pascoe & Clevo Wilson, 2017. "Is there a locational productivity advantage for rice cultivation? Results from a technical efficiency analysis of water use in Sri Lankan village irrigation systems," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Springer;Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - SEEPS, vol. 19(4), pages 789-806, October.
    80. Cordero, José Manuel & Pedraja-Chaparro, Francisco & Pisaflores, Elsa C. & Polo, Cristina, 2016. "Efficiency assessment of Portuguese municipalities using a conditional nonparametric approach," MPRA Paper 70674, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    81. Fusco, Elisa & Vidoli, Francesco & Sahoo, Biresh K., 2018. "Spatial heterogeneity in composite indicator: A methodological proposal," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 1-14.
    82. Halkos, George & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2011. "A conditional full frontier approach for investigating the Averch-Johnson effect," MPRA Paper 35491, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    83. Cordero, Jose M. & Salinas-Jiménez, Javier & Salinas-Jiménez, Mª Mar, 2014. "Assessing the level of happiness across countries: A robust frontier approach," MPRA Paper 57784, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    84. Polemis, Michael L. & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2019. "Competitive conditions and sectors’ productive efficiency: A conditional non-parametric frontier analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 276(3), pages 1104-1118.
    85. José Manuel Cordero & Cristina Polo & Daniel Santín & Gabriela Sicilia, 2016. "Monte-Carlo Comparison of Conditional Nonparametric Methods and Traditional Approaches to Include Exogenous Variables," Pacific Economic Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 21(4), pages 483-497, October.
    86. Panayiotis Tzeremes, 2020. "Productivity, efficiency and firm’s market value: Microeconomic evidence from multinational corporations," Bulletin of Applied Economics, Risk Market Journals, vol. 7(1), pages 95-105.
    87. Rogge, Nicky & De Jaeger, Simon & Lavigne, Carolien, 2017. "Waste Performance of NUTS 2-regions in the EU: A Conditional Directional Distance Benefit-of-the-Doubt Model," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 139(C), pages 19-32.
    88. Yiorgos Gadanakis & Francisco José Areal, 2020. "Accounting for rainfall and the length of growing season in technical efficiency analysis," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 20(4), pages 2583-2608, December.
    89. Gounopoulos, Dimitrios & Kallias, Konstantinos & Newton, David & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2016. "Political connections and IPO underpricing: An efficiency problem," MPRA Paper 69427, University Library of Munich, Germany.

  74. Badin, Luiza & Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold, 2010. "Optimal bandwidth selection for conditional efficiency measures: A data-driven approach," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2010003, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).

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    1. Jean Joseph Minviel & Kristof De Witte, 2016. "The influence of public subsidies on farm technical efficiency: A robust conditional nonparametric approach," Working Papers SMART 16-10, INRAE UMR SMART.
    2. Geraldo Souza & Eliane Gonçalves Gomes & Eliseu Roberto Alves, 2022. "Two-part fractional regression model with conditional FDH responses: an application to Brazilian agriculture," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 314(2), pages 393-409, July.
    3. Jean Pierre Huiban & Camille Mastromarco & Antonio Musolesi & Michel Simioni, 2016. "The impact of pollution abatement investments on production technology: new insights from frontier analysis," Working Papers hal-01512154, HAL.
    4. Cordero Ferrera, Jose Manuel & Alonso Morán, Edurne & Nuño Solís, Roberto & Orueta, Juan F. & Souto Arce, Regina, 2013. "Efficiency assessment of primary care providers: A conditional nonparametric approach," MPRA Paper 51926, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Badin, Luiza & Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold, 2018. "A Bootstrap Approach for Bandwidth Selection in Estimating Conditional Efficiency Measures," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018007, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    6. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2016. "Nonparametric Estimation of Efficiency in the Presence of Environmental Variables," DIAG Technical Reports 2016-02, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza".
    7. Degl’Innocenti, Marta & Matousek, Roman & Sevic, Zeljko & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2017. "Bank efficiency and financial centres: Does geographical location matter?," Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Elsevier, vol. 46(C), pages 188-198.
    8. Nguyen, Trang T.T. & Prior, Diego & Van Hemmen, Stefan, 2020. "Stochastic semi-nonparametric frontier approach for tax administration efficiency measure: Evidence from a cross-country study," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 137-153.
    9. Mergoni, Anna & Soncin, Mara & Agasisti, Tommaso, 2023. "The effect of ICT on schools’ efficiency: Empirical evidence on 23 European countries," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).
    10. Halkos, George & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2012. "Economic growth and environmental efficiency: Evidence from U.S. regions," MPRA Paper 42675, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    11. Guerrini, Andrea & Romano, Giulia & Mancuso, Fabrizio & Carosi, Laura, 2016. "Identifying the performance drivers of wastewater treatment plants through conditional order-m efficiency analysis," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 42(C), pages 20-31.
    12. Yunguo Lu & Lin Zhang, 2023. "Environmental information disclosure and firm production: evidence from the estimated efficiency of publicly listed firms in China," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 59(1), pages 99-119, February.
    13. D’Alfonso, Tiziana & Daraio, Cinzia & Nastasi, Alberto, 2015. "Competition and efficiency in the Italian airport system: new insights from a conditional nonparametric frontier analysis," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 80(C), pages 20-38.
    14. Badin, Luiza & Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold, 2014. "Explaining inefficiency in nonparametric production models: the state of the art," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2014005, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    15. Laurens Cherchye & Bram De Rock & Dieter Saelens & Marijn Verschelde & Bart Roets, 2022. "Performance Analysis with Unobserved Inputs: An Application to Endogenous Automation in Railway Traffic Management," Working Papers ECARES 2022-06, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    16. José Manuel Cordero & Carlos Díaz Caro & Francisco Pedraja Chaparro & Cristina Polo Fernández, 2020. "Tributos cedidos y eficiencia en la gestión tributaria de las Comunidades Autónomas," Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, IEF, vol. 232(1), pages 75-112, March.
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    2. Paul W. Wilson & Shirong Zhao, 2023. "Investigating the performance of Chinese banks over 2007–2014," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 321(1), pages 663-692, February.
    3. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2020. "Robust efficiency analysis of public hospitals in Queensland, Australia," CEPA Working Papers Series WP052020, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    4. Claudia Curi & Justas Gedvilas & Ana Lozano-Vivas, 2016. "Corporate Governance of SOEs and performance in transition countries. Evidence from Lithuania," BEMPS - Bozen Economics & Management Paper Series BEMPS36, Faculty of Economics and Management at the Free University of Bozen.
    5. Léopold Simar & Paul Wilson, 2011. "Two-stage DEA: caveat emptor," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 36(2), pages 205-218, October.
    6. Alois Kneip & Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2016. "Testing Hypotheses in Nonparametric Models of Production," Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(3), pages 435-456, July.
    7. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Data Sharpening for improving CLT approximations for DEA-type efficiency estimators," CEPA Working Papers Series WP142021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    8. Peyrache, Antonio & Rose, Christiern & Sicilia, Gabriela, 2020. "Variable selection in Data Envelopment Analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 282(2), pages 644-659.
    9. Nguyen, Bao Hoang & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2022. "Data sharpening for improving central limit theorem approximations for data envelopment analysis–type efficiency estimators," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(3), pages 1469-1480.
    10. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul, 2022. "Modern Tools for Evaluating the Performance of Health-Care Providers," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022006, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    11. Kneip, Alois & Simar, Léopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid, 2015. "Frontier estimation in the presence of measurement error with unknown variance," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 184(2), pages 379-393.
    12. Léopold Simar & Paul Wilson, 2011. "Inference by the m out of n bootstrap in nonparametric frontier models," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 36(1), pages 33-53, August.
    13. Simar, Léopold & Vanhems, Anne & Wilson, Paul W., 2012. "Statistical inference for DEA estimators of directional distances," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 220(3), pages 853-864.
    14. Daouia, Abdelaati & Noh, Hohsuk & Park, Byeong U., 2013. "Data envelope fitting with constrained polynomial splines," TSE Working Papers 13-449, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
    15. Amy Apon & Linh Ngo & Michael Payne & Paul Wilson, 2015. "Assessing the effect of high performance computing capabilities on academic research output," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 48(1), pages 283-312, February.
    16. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Hypothesis Testing in Nonparametric Models of Production using Multiple Sample Splits," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2019019, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    17. Shiu, Alice & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2009. "Production Efficiency versus Ownership: The Case of China," MPRA Paper 23760, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 22 Mar 2010.
    18. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Aggregate efficiency of industry and its groups: the case of Queensland public hospitals," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2795-2836, June.
    19. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2018. "Fast and Efficient Computation of Directional Distance Estimators," LEM Papers Series 2018/21, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    20. Mike Tsionas & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Goodness-of-fit in Optimizing Models of Production: A Generalization with a Bayesian Perspective," CEPA Working Papers Series WP182021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    21. Claudia Curi & Paolo Guarda & Ana Lozano-Vivas & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2013. "Is foreign-bank efficiency in financial centers driven by home or host country characteristics?," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 40(3), pages 367-385, December.
    22. 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.
    23. Wheelock, David C. & Wilson, Paul W., 2013. "The evolution of cost-productivity and efficiency among US credit unions," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 37(1), pages 75-88.
    24. Kneip, Alois & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2022. "Conical FDH Estimators of General Technologies, with Applications to Returns to Scale and Malmquist Productivity Indices," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022024, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    25. Michali, Maria & Emrouznejad, Ali & Dehnokhalaji, Akram & Clegg, Ben, 2023. "Subsampling bootstrap in network DEA," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 305(2), pages 766-780.
    26. Kneip, A. & Simar, L. & Van Keilegom I., 2010. "Boundary estimation in the presence of measurement error with unknown variance," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2010046, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    27. Kneip, Alois & Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2018. "Inference in Dynamic, Nonparametric Models of Production: Central Limit Theorems for Malmquist Indices," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018010, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    28. Caitlin T. O’Loughlin & Paul W. Wilson, 2021. "Benchmarking the performance of US Municipalities," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2665-2700, June.
    29. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2015. "Statistical Approaches for Nonparametric Frontier Models: A Guided Tour," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2015022, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    30. Wilson, Paul W., 2018. "Dimension reduction in nonparametric models of production," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 267(1), pages 349-367.
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    9. Rolf Färe & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "On aggregation of multi-factor productivity indexes," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 55(2), pages 107-133, April.
    10. Kneip, Alois & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2015. "When Bias Kills The Variance: Central Limit Theorems For Dea And Fdh Efficiency Scores," Econometric Theory, Cambridge University Press, vol. 31(2), pages 394-422, April.
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    22. Claudia Curi & Paolo Guarda & Ana Lozano-Vivas & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2013. "Is foreign-bank efficiency in financial centers driven by home or host country characteristics?," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 40(3), pages 367-385, December.
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    17. Natalya Zelenyuk & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2015. "Productivity Drivers of Efficiency in Banking: Importance of Model Specifications," CEPA Working Papers Series WP082015, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    18. Subhash C. Ray & Abhiman Das & Kankana Mukherjee, 2018. "Measures of Labor Use Efficiency from a Cost-Based Dual Representation of the Technology: A Study of Indian Bank Branches," Working papers 2018-17, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics.
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    24. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Data Sharpening for improving CLT approximations for DEA-type efficiency estimators," CEPA Working Papers Series WP142021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    25. Simar, Leopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2014. "Nonparametric Least Squares Methods for Stochastic Frontier Models," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2014012, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    26. Hohsuk Noh & Seong J. Yang, 2020. "Comparing Groups of Decision-Making Units in Efficiency Based on Semiparametric Regression," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 8(2), pages 1-16, February.
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    30. Nguyen, Bao Hoang & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2022. "Data sharpening for improving central limit theorem approximations for data envelopment analysis–type efficiency estimators," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(3), pages 1469-1480.
    31. Xiaoqing Chen & Kristiaan Kerstens & Mike Tsionas, 2023. "Does Productivity Change at All in Swedish District Courts? Empirical Analysis Focusing on Horizontal Mergers," Working Papers 2023-EQM-03, IESEG School of Management.
    32. Claudia Curi & Paolo Guarda & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2011. "Changes in bank specialisation: comparing foreign subsidiaries and branches in Luxembourg," BCL working papers 67, Central Bank of Luxembourg.
    33. Magdalena Kapelko, 2019. "Measuring productivity change accounting for adjustment costs: evidence from the food industry in the European Union," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 278(1), pages 215-234, July.
    34. Klishchuk Bogdan & Zelenyuk Valentin, 2012. "Impact of Services LIberalization on Firm Level Productivity in Eastern Europe and Central Asia," EERC Working Paper Series 12/03e, EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS.
    35. Juan Aparicio & Magdalena Kapelko & Bernhard Mahlberg & Jose L. Sainz-Pardo, 2017. "Measuring input-specific productivity change based on the principle of least action," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 47(1), pages 17-31, February.
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    37. Chen, Kaihua & Kou, Mingting & Fu, Xiaolan, 2018. "Evaluation of multi-period regional R&D efficiency: An application of dynamic DEA to China's regional R&D systems," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 103-114.
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    39. Kapelko, Magdalena & Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M. & Stefanou, Spiro E., 2012. "Dynamic Productivity Growth in the Spanish Meat Industry," 131st Seminar, September 18-19, 2012, Prague, Czech Republic 135789, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    40. Magdalena Kapelko & Alfons Oude Lansink & Spiro E. Stefanou, 2017. "Input-Specific Dynamic Productivity Change: Measurement and Application to European Dairy Manufacturing Firms," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 68(2), pages 579-599, June.
    41. Engida, Tadesse Getacher & Rao, Xudong & Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M., 2020. "A dynamic by-production framework for analyzing inefficiency associated with corporate social responsibility," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 287(3), pages 1170-1179.
    42. Gulati, Rachita, 2022. "Bank ownership and governance quality in India: Evolution and detection of convergence clubs," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 62(C).
    43. Aparicio, Juan & Kapelko, Magdalena & Ortiz, Lidia, 2023. "Enhancing the measurement of firm inefficiency accounting for corporate social responsibility: A dynamic data envelopment analysis fuzzy approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 306(2), pages 986-997.
    44. Richard Simper & Maximilian J.B. Hall & Wenbin B. Liu & Valentin Zelenyuk & Zhongbao Zhou, 2014. "How Relevant is the Choice of Risk Management Control Variable to Non-parametric Bank Profit Efficiency Analysis?," CEPA Working Papers Series WP122014, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    45. Cristina M. Campos-Alba & Emilio J. De la Higuera-Molina & Gemma Pérez-López & José L. Zafra-Gómez, 2019. "Measuring the Efficiency of Public and Private Delivery Forms: An Application to the Waste Collection Service Using Order-M Data Panel Frontier Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(7), pages 1-15, April.
    46. Chowdhury, Hedayet & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2016. "Performance of hospital services in Ontario: DEA with truncated regression approach," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 63(C), pages 111-122.
    47. Ali, Beshir M. & de Mey, Yann & Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M., 2021. "The effect of farm genetics expenses on dynamic productivity growth," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 290(2), pages 701-717.
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    52. Frederic Ang & Alfons Oude Lansink, 2018. "Decomposing dynamic profit inefficiency of Belgian dairy farms," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 45(1), pages 81-99.
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    55. 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.
    56. Maria Teresa Balaguer-Coll & Diego Prior & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2010. "Devolution Dynamics of Spanish Local Government," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 42(6), pages 1476-1495, June.
    57. Beltrán-Esteve, Mercedes & Picazo-Tadeo, Andrés J., 2017. "Assessing environmental performance in the European Union: Eco-innovation versus catching-up," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 240-252.
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    62. Isabel Narbón-Perpiñá & Maria Teresa Balaguer-Coll & Diego Prior & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2021. "Searching for the optimal territorial structure: the case of Spanish provincial councils," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(4), pages 645-664, April.
    63. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Aggregate efficiency of industry and its groups: the case of Queensland public hospitals," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2795-2836, June.
    64. Jesús Peiró-Palomino & Andrés J. Picazo-Tadeo, 2018. "Assessing well-being in European regions. Does government quality matter?," Working Papers 2018/06, Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain).
    65. 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.
    66. Li, Degui & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2016. "Generalized nonparametric smoothing with mixed discrete and continuous data," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 100(C), pages 424-444.
    67. Kristiaan Kerstens & Christopher O’donnell & Ignace van de Woestyne, 2019. "Metatechnology frontier and convexity: A restatement," Post-Print hal-02108502, HAL.
    68. Ma, Chunbo & Zhao, Xiaoli & Ma, Qian & Zhao, Yue, 2011. "China’s Electricity Market Reform and Power Plants Efficiency," Working Papers 117811, University of Western Australia, School of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
    69. Sickles, Robin C. & Song, Wonho & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2018. "Econometric Analysis of Productivity: Theory and Implementation in R," Working Papers 18-008, Rice University, Department of Economics.
    70. 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.
    71. 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.
    72. Kenichi Kashiwagi & Hajime Kamiyama, 2023. "Effect of adoption of organic farming on technical efficiency of olive-growing farms: empirical evidence from West Bank of Palestine," Agricultural and Food Economics, Springer;Italian Society of Agricultural Economics (SIDEA), vol. 11(1), pages 1-28, December.
    73. Rachita Gulati, 2022. "Does regulatory under‐compliance with governance standards lead to bank instability? An exploration using Indian data," Australian Economic Papers, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 61(1), pages 138-180, March.
    74. Dickens S Omondi Aduda & Collins Ouma & Rosebella Onyango & Mathews Onyango & Jane Bertrand, 2015. "Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Scale-Up in Nyanza, Kenya: Evaluating Technical Efficiency and Productivity of Service Delivery," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(2), pages 1-17, February.
    75. Hampf, Benjamin, 2018. "Cost and environmental efficiency of U.S. electricity generation: Accounting for heterogeneous inputs and transportation costs," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 163(C), pages 932-941.
    76. Gulati, Rachita & Kumar, Sunil, 2016. "Assessing the impact of the global financial crisis on the profit efficiency of Indian banks," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 58(C), pages 167-181.
    77. Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2005. "Testing the impact of ICT in developed countries during 1980-1995: distributional analysis in Solow’s growth accounting framework," MPRA Paper 28029, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised Dec 2010.
    78. Juan Aparicio & Magdalena Kapelko, 2019. "Enhancing the Measurement of Composite Indicators of Corporate Social Performance," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 144(2), pages 807-826, July.
    79. Tsionas, Mike G. & Andrikopoulos, Athanasios, 2020. "On a High-Dimensional Model Representation method based on Copulas," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 284(3), pages 967-979.
    80. Oliveira, Ricardo & Pedro, Maria Isabel & Marques, Rui Cunha, 2013. "Efficiency and its determinants in Portuguese hotels in the Algarve," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 36(C), pages 641-649.
    81. George Halkos & Nickolaos Tzeremes, 2014. "Measuring the effect of Kyoto protocol agreement on countries’ environmental efficiency in CO 2 emissions: an application of conditional full frontiers," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 41(3), pages 367-382, June.
    82. Richard Simper & Maximilian J. B. Hall & WenBin Liu & Valentin Zelenyuk & Zhongbao Zhou, 2017. "How relevant is the choice of risk management control variable to non-parametric bank profit efficiency analysis? The case of South Korean banks," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 250(1), pages 105-127, March.
    83. Adler, Nicole & Volta, Nicola, 2016. "Accounting for externalities and disposability: A directional economic environmental distance function," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 250(1), pages 314-327.
    84. Manh D. Pham & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2016. "Slack-based directional distance function in the presence of bad outputs: Theory and Application to Vietnamese Banking," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072016, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    85. Isabel Narbón-Perpiñá & Maria Teresa Balaguer-Coll & Diego Prior & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2023. "Vertical transfers, political alignment, and efficiency in local government," Working Papers 2023/08, Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain).
    86. Oleg Badunenko & Daniel J. Henderson & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2017. "The Productivity of Nations," Working Papers in Economics & Finance 2017-05, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth Business School, Economics and Finance Subject Group.
    87. Kapelko, Magdalena, 2015. "Dynamic versus Static Inefficiency Assessment of the Polish Meat-Processing Industry in the Aftermath of the European Union Integration and Financial Crisis," 2015 Conference, August 9-14, 2015, Milan, Italy 211830, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    88. Gulati, Rachita & Charles, Vincent & Hassan, M. Kabir & Kumar, Sunil, 2023. "COVID-19 crisis and the efficiency of Indian banks: Have they weathered the storm?," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    89. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2013. "Scale Efficiency and Homotheticity: Equivalence of Primal and Dual Measures," CEPA Working Papers Series WP022013, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    90. Calogero Guccio & Giacomo Pignataro & Ilde Rizzo, 2014. "Evaluating the efficiency of public procurement contracts for cultural heritage conservation works in Italy," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 38(1), pages 43-70, February.
    91. Lin, Shuguang & Shi, Hai-Liu & Wang, Ying-Ming, 2022. "An integrated slacks-based super-efficiency measure in the presence of nonpositive data," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 111(C).
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    93. Dyah Wulan Sari & Noor Aini Khalifah & Suyanto Suyanto, 2016. "The spillover effects of foreign direct investment on the firms’ productivity performances," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 46(2), pages 199-233, December.
    94. Magdalena Kapelko, 2018. "Measuring inefficiency for specific inputs using data envelopment analysis: evidence from construction industry in Spain and Portugal," 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. 26(1), pages 43-66, March.
    95. Kevork, Ilias S. & Pange, Jenny & Tzeremes, Panayiotis & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2017. "Estimating Malmquist productivity indexes using probabilistic directional distances: An application to the European banking sector," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 261(3), pages 1125-1140.
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    97. Campos-Alba, Cristina M. & Prior, Diego & Pérez-López, Gemma & Zafra-Gómez, Jose L., 2020. "Long-term cost efficiency of alternative management forms for urban public transport from the public sector perspective," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 88(C), pages 16-23.
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    99. Marta Suárez-Varela & María los Ángeles García-Valiñas & Francisco González-Gómez & Andrés J Picazo-Tadeo, 2017. "Ownership and Performance in Water Services Revisited: Does Private Management Really Outperform Public?," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 31(8), pages 2355-2373, June.
    100. Juan Carlos Garrido-Rodríguez & Gemma Pérez-López & José Luis Zafra-Gómez & Diego Prior, 2018. "Estimación de la eficiencia a largo plazo en servicios públicos locales mediante fronteras robustas con datos de panel," Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, IEF, vol. 226(3), pages 11-36, September.
    101. Francisco Javier Sáez-Fernández & Andrés J. Picazo-Tadeo & Mercedes Beltrán-Esteve & Caroline Elliott, 2015. "Assessing the performance of the Latin American and Caribbean banking industry: Are domestic and foreign banks so different?," Cogent Economics & Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 3(1), pages 1006976-100, December.
    102. Pavlo Demchuk & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2009. "Testing differences in efficiency of regions within a country: the case of Ukraine," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 32(2), pages 81-102, October.
    103. Kapelko, M. & Horta, I.M. & Camanho, A.S. & Oude Lansink, A., 2015. "Measurement of input-specific productivity growth with an application to the construction industry in Spain and Portugal," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 166(C), pages 64-71.
    104. Kai Du, 2014. "Efficiency Gains from Removing Trade Barriers: Evidence from Asian Banking Industries," School of Economics and Public Policy Working Papers 2014-04, University of Adelaide, School of Economics and Public Policy.
    105. Juan Aparicio & Magdalena Kapelko & Lidia Ortiz, 2021. "Modelling environmental inefficiency under a quota system," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 21(2), pages 1097-1124, June.
    106. 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.
    107. Tomas Baležentis & Irena Kriščiukaitienė & Alvydas Baležentis, 2014. "A nonparametric analysis of the determinants of family farm efficiency dynamics in Lithuania," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 45(5), pages 589-599, September.
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    109. Guangdi Zhang & Yaojun Ye & Mengya Sun, 2023. "Assessing the Static and Dynamic Efficiency of Digital Economy in China: Three Stage DEA–Malmquist Index Based Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(6), pages 1-17, March.
    110. Maria Balaguer-Coll & Diego Prior & Emili Tortosa-Ausina, 2010. "Decentralization and efficiency of local government," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 45(3), pages 571-601, December.
    111. Claudia Curi, 2016. "Subsidiary vs. Branch Banks: Are Their Balance Sheet Compositions Converging?," International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, vol. 6(4), pages 234-250, October.
    112. Byeong Park & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2015. "Categorical data in local maximum likelihood: theory and applications to productivity analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 43(2), pages 199-214, April.
    113. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2019. "Data Envelopment Analysis and Business Analytics: The Big Data Challenges and Some Solutions," CEPA Working Papers Series WP072019, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    114. Ioannis Skevas & Alfons Oude Lansink & Theodoros Skevas, 2023. "Analysing inefficiency in a non‐parametric spatial‐dynamic by‐production framework: A k‐nearest neighbour proposal," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 74(2), pages 591-607, June.
    115. Salim, Ruhul & Arjomandi, Amir & Seufert, Juergen Heinz, 2016. "Does corporate governance affect Australian banks' performance?," Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Elsevier, vol. 43(C), pages 113-125.
    116. Moriah Bostian & Rolf Färe & Shawna Grosskopf & Tommy Lundgren & William L. Weber, 2018. "Time substitution for environmental performance: The case of Swedish manufacturing," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 54(1), pages 129-152, February.
    117. Simon Akahoua N'cho & Monique Mourits & Jonne Rodenburg & Alfons Oude Lansink, 2019. "Inefficiency of manual weeding in rainfed rice systems affected by parasitic weeds," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 50(2), pages 151-163, March.
    118. Chen, Ying-Hsiu & Lai, Po-Lin & Piboonrungroj, Pairach, 2017. "The relationship between airport performance and privatisation policy: A nonparametric metafrontier approach," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 62(C), pages 229-235.
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    121. Casu, Barbara & Girardone, Claudia, 2010. "Integration and efficiency convergence in EU banking markets," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 38(5), pages 260-267, October.
    122. Valentin Zelenyuk, 2014. "Testing Significance of Contributions in Growth Accounting, with Application to Testing ICT Impact on Labor Productivity of Developed Countries," International Journal of Business and Economics, School of Management Development, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, vol. 13(2), pages 115-126, December.
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    124. Gerald Granderson & Diego Prior, 2013. "Environmental externalities and regulation constrained cost productivity growth in the US electric utility industry," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 39(3), pages 243-257, June.
    125. Theodoros Skevas & Jasper Grashuis, 2023. "Evaluating dynamic productivity change of US farm supply cooperatives," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 39(4), pages 1238-1253, October.
    126. Carvalho, Anne Emília Costa & Sampaio, Raquel Menezes Bezerra & Sampaio, Luciano Menezes Bezerra, 2023. "The impact of regulation on the Brazilian water and sewerage companies’ efficiency," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 87(PA).
    127. Magdalena Kapelko & Alfons Oude Lansink, 2018. "Managerial and program inefficiency for European meat manufacturing firms: A dynamic multidirectional inefficiency analysis approach," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 49(1), pages 25-36, February.
    128. Muliaman D. Hadad & Maximilian J. B. Hall & Wimboh Santoso & Karligash Kenjegalieva & Richard Simper, 2009. "A New Approach to Dealing With Negative Numbers in Efficiency Analysis: An Application to the Indonesian Banking Sector," Discussion Paper Series 2009_20, Department of Economics, Loughborough University, revised Dec 2009.
    129. Magdalena Kapelko & Alfons Oude Lansink & Spiro E Stefanou, 2015. "Effect of Food Regulation on the Spanish Food Processing Industry: A Dynamic Productivity Analysis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(6), pages 1-16, June.
    130. Kapelko, Magdalena & Oude Lansink, Alfons & Zofío, José L., 2022. "Endogenous dynamic inefficiency and optimal resource allocation: An application to the European Dietetic Food Industry," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(3), pages 1444-1457.
    131. Juan Piedra-Peña & Diego Prior, 2023. "Analyzing the effect of health reforms on the efficiency of Ecuadorian public hospitals," International Journal of Health Economics and Management, Springer, vol. 23(3), pages 361-392, September.
    132. Serra, Teresa & Poli, Elena, 2015. "Shadow prices of social capital in rural India, a nonparametric approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 240(3), pages 892-903.
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    6. Ulrich Schmoch & Torben Schubert, 2009. "Sustainability of incentives for excellent research — The German case," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 81(1), pages 195-218, October.
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Articles

  1. Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2023. "Nonparametric, Stochastic Frontier Models with Multiple Inputs and Outputs," Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(4), pages 1391-1403, October.
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  2. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk & Shirong Zhao, 2023. "Further improvements of finite sample approximation of central limit theorems for envelopment estimators," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 59(2), pages 189-194, April.
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  3. Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2023. "Another look at productivity growth in industrialized countries," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 60(3), pages 257-272, December.
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  4. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2021. "Quality as a latent heterogeneity factor in the efficiency of universities," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
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  5. Fall, F.S. & Tchakoute Tchuigoua, H. & Vanhems, A. & Simar, L., 2021. "Gender effect on microfinance social efficiency: A robust nonparametric approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 295(2), pages 744-757.
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  6. Camilla Mastromarco & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Predicting recessions with a frontier measure of output gap: an application to Italian economy," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2701-2740, June.
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  7. Daouia, Abdelaati & Florens, Jean-Pierre & Simar, Léopold, 2021. "Robustified Expected Maximum Production Frontiers," Econometric Theory, Cambridge University Press, vol. 37(2), pages 346-387, April.
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  8. Kneip, Alois & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2021. "Inference In Dynamic, Nonparametric Models Of Production: Central Limit Theorems For Malmquist Indices," Econometric Theory, Cambridge University Press, vol. 37(3), pages 537-572, June.
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  9. Camilla Mastromarco & Léopold Simar, 2021. "Latent heterogeneity to evaluate the effect of human capital on world technology frontier," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 55(2), pages 71-89, April.
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  10. Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2020. "Hypothesis testing in nonparametric models of production using multiple sample splits," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 53(3), pages 287-303, June.
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  11. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2020. "Technical, allocative and overall efficiency: Estimation and inference," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 282(3), pages 1164-1176.

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    1. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Data Sharpening for improving CLT approximations for DEA-type efficiency estimators," CEPA Working Papers Series WP142021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    2. Nguyen, Bao Hoang & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2022. "Data sharpening for improving central limit theorem approximations for data envelopment analysis–type efficiency estimators," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(3), pages 1469-1480.
    3. Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2020. "Improving finite sample approximation by central limit theorems for estimates from Data Envelopment Analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 284(3), pages 1002-1015.
    4. Cherchye, Laurens & De Rock, Bram & Dierynck, Bart & Kerstens, Pieter Jan & Roodhooft, Filip, 2023. "A DEA-based approach to customer value analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 308(3), pages 1319-1331.
    5. Caitlin T. O’Loughlin & Paul W. Wilson, 2021. "Benchmarking the performance of US Municipalities," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2665-2700, June.
    6. Tanko, Mohammed & Ismaila, Salifu, 2021. "How culture and religion influence the agriculture technology gap in Northern Ghana," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 22(C).
    7. Hatami-Marbini, Adel & Arabmaldar, Aliasghar, 2021. "Robustness of Farrell cost efficiency measurement under data perturbations: Evidence from a US manufacturing application," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 295(2), pages 604-620.
    8. Amir Moradi-Motlagh & Ali Emrouznejad, 2022. "The origins and development of statistical approaches in non-parametric frontier models: a survey of the first two decades of scholarly literature (1998–2020)," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 318(1), pages 713-741, November.

  12. Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2020. "Improving finite sample approximation by central limit theorems for estimates from Data Envelopment Analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 284(3), pages 1002-1015.
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  13. Daouia, Abdelaati & Florens, Jean-Pierre & Simar, Léopold, 2020. "Robust frontier estimation from noisy data: A Tikhonov regularization approach," Econometrics and Statistics, Elsevier, vol. 14(C), pages 1-23.
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  14. Byeong U. Park & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2020. "Forecasting of recessions via dynamic probit for time series: replication and extension of Kauppi and Saikkonen (2008)," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 58(1), pages 379-392, January.
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  15. Cinzia Daraio & Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2020. "Fast and efficient computation of directional distance estimators," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 288(2), pages 805-835, May.
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  16. Jean-Pierre Florens & Léopold Simar & Ingrid Van Keilegom, 2020. "Estimation of the Boundary of a Variable Observed With Symmetric Error," Journal of the American Statistical Association, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 115(529), pages 425-441, January.
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  17. Bădin, Luiza & Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Léopold, 2019. "A bootstrap approach for bandwidth selection in estimating conditional efficiency measures," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 277(2), pages 784-797.
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  18. Simar, Léopold & W. Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Central limit theorems and inference for sources of productivity change measured by nonparametric Malmquist indices," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 277(2), pages 756-769.
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  19. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2018. "Central Limit Theorems for Aggregate Efficiency," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 66(1), pages 137-149, January.
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  20. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Léopold, 2018. "Globalization and productivity: A robust nonparametric world frontier analysis," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 69(C), pages 134-149.
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  21. Cinzia Daraio & Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2018. "Central limit theorems for conditional efficiency measures and tests of the ‘separability’ condition in non‐parametric, two‐stage models of production," Econometrics Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 21(2), pages 170-191, June.

    Cited by:

    1. Caitlin O’Loughlin & Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2023. "Methodologies for assessing government efficiency," Chapters, in: António Afonso & João Tovar Jalles & Ana Venâncio (ed.), Handbook on Public Sector Efficiency, chapter 4, pages 72-101, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. Frédérique Fève & Jean-Pierre Florens & Léopold Simar, 2023. "Proportional incremental cost probability functions and their frontiers," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 64(6), pages 2721-2756, June.
    3. Geraldo Souza & Eliane Gonçalves Gomes & Eliseu Roberto Alves, 2022. "Two-part fractional regression model with conditional FDH responses: an application to Brazilian agriculture," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 314(2), pages 393-409, July.
    4. Badin, Luiza & Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold, 2018. "A Bootstrap Approach for Bandwidth Selection in Estimating Conditional Efficiency Measures," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2018007, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    5. Jose M. Cordero & Cristina Polo & Daniel Santín, 2020. "Assessment of new methods for incorporating contextual variables into efficiency measures: a Monte Carlo simulation," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 20(4), pages 2245-2265, December.
    6. Francisco Javier Sáez-Fernández & Ignacio Jiménez-Hernández & María del Sol Ostos-Rey, 2020. "Seasonality and Efficiency of the Hotel Industry in the Balearic Islands: Implications for Economic and Environmental Sustainability," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(9), pages 1-17, April.
    7. Sergio Destefanis & Francesco Addesa & Giambattista Rossi, 2022. "The impact of COVID-19 on home advantage: a conditional order-m analysis of football clubs’ efficiency in the top-5 European leagues," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(58), pages 6639-6655, December.
    8. Heidenreich, Anja & Grovermann, Christian & Kadzere, Irene & Egyir, Irene S. & Muriuki, Anne & Bandanaa, Joseph & Clottey, Joseph & Ndungu, John & Blockeel, Johan & Muller, Adrian & Stolze, Matthias &, 2022. "Sustainable intensification pathways in Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing eco-efficiency of smallholder perennial cash crop production," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 195(C).
    9. Fukuyama, Hirofumi & Matousek, Roman & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2023. "Estimating the degree of firms’ input market power via data envelopment analysis: Evidence from the global biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 305(2), pages 946-960.
    10. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Quality and its impact on efficiency," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2019004, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    11. Mastromarco, Camilla & Simar, Léopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid, 2022. "Estimating Nonparametric Conditional Frontiers and Efficiencies: A New Approach," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022035, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    12. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Data Sharpening for improving CLT approximations for DEA-type efficiency estimators," CEPA Working Papers Series WP142021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    13. Ye Wang & Yunguo Lu & Lin Zhang, 2021. "Opportunity Cost of Environmental Regulation in China’s Industrial Sector," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(16), pages 1-19, August.
    14. Simar, Léopold & W. Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Central limit theorems and inference for sources of productivity change measured by nonparametric Malmquist indices," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 277(2), pages 756-769.
    15. Nguyen, Bao Hoang & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2022. "Data sharpening for improving central limit theorem approximations for data envelopment analysis–type efficiency estimators," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(3), pages 1469-1480.
    16. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul, 2022. "Modern Tools for Evaluating the Performance of Health-Care Providers," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022006, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    17. Pierluigi Toma, 2020. "Size and productivity: a conditional approach for Italian pharmaceutical sector," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 54(1), pages 1-12, August.
    18. Vesterberg, Mattias & Zhou, Wenchao & Lundgren, Tommy, 2021. "Wind of change: Small-scale electricity production and distribution-grid efficiency in Sweden," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 69(C).
    19. Zhu, Liyun & Schneider, Kevin & Oude Lansink, Alfons, 2023. "Economic, environmental, and social inefficiency assessment of Dutch dairy farms based on the dynamic by-production model," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 311(3), pages 1134-1145.
    20. Enrique J. Buch‐Gómez & Roberto Cabaleiro‐Casal, 2020. "Turnout, political strength, and cost efficiency in Spanish municipalities of the autonomous region of Galicia: Evidence from an alternative stochastic frontier approach," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 99(3), pages 533-553, June.
    21. Engida, Tadesse Getacher & Rao, Xudong & Oude Lansink, Alfons G.J.M., 2020. "A dynamic by-production framework for analyzing inefficiency associated with corporate social responsibility," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 287(3), pages 1170-1179.
    22. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2019. "Hypothesis Testing in Nonparametric Models of Production using Multiple Sample Splits," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2019019, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    23. Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2019. "Technological change, technological catch-up and export orientation: evidence from Latin American Countries," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 52(1), pages 85-100, December.
    24. Faten Ben Bouheni & Hassan Obeid & Elena Margarint, 2022. "Nonperforming loan of European Islamic banks over the economic cycle," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 313(2), pages 773-808, June.
    25. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2018. "Fast and Efficient Computation of Directional Distance Estimators," LEM Papers Series 2018/21, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    26. Nicola Galluzzo, 2021. "Estimation of the impact of CAP subsidies as environmental variables on Romanian farms," Economia agro-alimentare, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 23(3), pages 1-24.
    27. Christopher F. Parmeter & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2019. "Combining the Virtues of Stochastic Frontier and Data Envelopment Analysis," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 67(6), pages 1628-1658, November.
    28. Kneip, Alois & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2022. "Conical FDH Estimators of General Technologies, with Applications to Returns to Scale and Malmquist Productivity Indices," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022024, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    29. Michael L. Polemis & Thanasis Stengos & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes, 2020. "Modeling the effect of competition on US manufacturing sectors’ efficiency: an order-m frontier analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 54(1), pages 27-41, August.
    30. Gearhart, Richard & Michieka, Nyakundi, 2019. "Natural resource abundance and healthcare efficiency in Appalachia: A robust conditional approach," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 129(C), pages 985-996.
    31. Assaf, A. George & Tsionas, Mike G., 2019. "A review of research into performance modeling in tourism research - Launching the Annals of Tourism Research curated collection on performance modeling in tourism research," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 266-277.
    32. Bigerna, Simona & D'Errico, Maria Chiara & Polinori, Paolo, 2022. "Environmental variables and power firms' productivity: micro panel estimation with time-Invariant variables," MPRA Paper 114157, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    33. Mariarosaria Agostino & Sabrina Ruberto & Francesco Trivieri, 2018. "Lasting lending relationships and technical efficiency. Evidence on European SMEs," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 50(1), pages 25-40, October.
    34. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul, 2022. "Another Look at Productivity Growth in Industrialized Countries," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2022028, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    35. 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.
    36. Calogero Guccio & Marco Ferdinando Martorana & Isidoro Mazza & Giacomo Pignataro & Ilde Rizzo, 2020. "Is innovation in ICT valuable for the efficiency of Italian museums?," ACEI Working Paper Series AWP-01-2020, Association for Cultural Economics International, revised Dec 2020.
    37. Ioannis E. Tsolas, 2021. "Efficiency and Determinants of Capital Structure in the Greek Pharmaceutical, Cosmetic and Detergent Industries," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 14(12), pages 1-13, December.
    38. Caitlin T. O’Loughlin & Paul W. Wilson, 2021. "Benchmarking the performance of US Municipalities," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2665-2700, June.
    39. Benito, Bernardino & Guillamón, María-Dolores & Martínez-Córdoba, Pedro-José, 2020. "Determinants of efficiency improvement in the Spanish public lighting sector," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 64(C).
    40. Anders Rønn-Nielsen & Dorte Kronborg & Mette Asmild, 2019. "Exact tests on returns to scale and comparisons of production frontiers in nonparametric models," IFRO Working Paper 2019/04, University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics.
    41. 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.
    42. Mariarosaria Agostino & Emanuele Brancati & Anna Giunta & Domenico Scalera & Francesco Trivieri, 2020. "Firms' efficiency and global value chains: An empirical investigation on Italian industry," The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 43(4), pages 1000-1033, April.
    43. Lisciandra, Maurizio & Milani, Riccardo & Millemaci, Emanuele, 2022. "A corruption risk indicator for public procurement," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 73(C).
    44. Ioannis E. Tsolas, 2020. "Financial Performance Assessment of Construction Firms by Means of RAM-Based Composite Indicators," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 8(8), pages 1-16, August.
    45. Benito, Bernardino & Martínez-Córdoba, Pedro-José & Guillamón, María-Dolores, 2021. "Measurement and determinants of efficiency in the municipal police service," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    46. Polemis, Michael L. & Stengos, Thanasis & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2020. "Advertising expenses and operational performance: Evidence from the global hotel industry," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 192(C).
    47. López-Torres, Laura & Johnes, Jill & Elliott, Caroline & Polo, Cristina, 2021. "The effects of competition and collaboration on efficiency in the UK independent school sector," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 40-53.
    48. Guangshun Qiao & Zhan-ao Wang, 2021. "Vertical integration vs. specialization: a nonparametric conditional efficiency estimate for the global semiconductor industry," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 56(2), pages 139-150, December.
    49. Cinzia Daraio & Leopold Simar, 2022. "Approximations and Inference for Nonparametric Production Frontiers," LEM Papers Series 2022/14, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    50. Pedro-José Martínez-Córdoba & Nicola Raimo & Filippo Vitolla & Bernardino Benito, 2020. "Achieving Sustainable Development Goals. Efficiency in the Spanish Clean Water and Sanitation Sector," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(7), pages 1-13, April.
    51. Mohamed Mehdi Jelassi & Ezzeddine Delhoumi, 2021. "What explains the technical efficiency of banks in Tunisia? Evidence from a two-stage data envelopment analysis," Financial Innovation, Springer;Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, vol. 7(1), pages 1-26, December.
    52. Agasisti, Tommaso & Zoido, Pablo, 2019. "The efficiency of schools in developing countries, analysed through PISA 2012 data," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).
    53. Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2020. "Aggregation of inputs and outputs prior to Data Envelopment Analysis under big data," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 282(1), pages 172-187.
    54. Bulut, Hasan, 2020. "The construction of a composite index for general satisfaction in Turkey and the investigation of its determinants," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
    55. Falavigna, G. & Ippoliti, R., 2020. "The socio-economic planning of a community nurses programme in mountain areas: A Directional Distance Function approach," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
    56. Amir Moradi-Motlagh & Ali Emrouznejad, 2022. "The origins and development of statistical approaches in non-parametric frontier models: a survey of the first two decades of scholarly literature (1998–2020)," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 318(1), pages 713-741, November.
    57. Karagiannis, Roxani & Karagiannis, Giannis, 2023. "Nonparametric estimates of price efficiency for the Greek infant milk market: Curing the curse of dimensionality with shannon entropy," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 121(C).
    58. Andrea Bonfiglio & Roberto Henke & Fabio Pierangeli & Maria Rosaria Pupo D'Andrea, 2020. "Effects of redistributing policy support on farmers’ technical efficiency," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 51(2), pages 305-320, March.
    59. Del Barrio-Tellado, María José & Gómez-Vega, Mafalda & Gómez-Zapata, Jonathan Daniel & Herrero-Prieto, Luis César, 2021. "Urban public libraries: Performance analysis using dynamic-network-DEA," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
    60. Polemis, Michael L. & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2019. "Competitive conditions and sectors’ productive efficiency: A conditional non-parametric frontier analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 276(3), pages 1104-1118.
    61. Valiyattoor, Vipin & Bhandari, Anup Kumar, 2020. "Outsourcing and firm performance nexus: An analysis using the conventional and panel double-bootstrap procedure," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 54(C).
    62. Cifuentes-Faura, Javier & Faura-Martínez, Ursula, 2023. "Measuring Spanish airport performance: A bootstrap data envelopment analysis of efficiency," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
    63. Hampf, Benjamin & Rødseth, Kenneth Løvold, 2019. "Environmental efficiency measurement with heterogeneous input quality: A nonparametric analysis of U.S. power plants," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 81(C), pages 610-625.

  22. Christian M. Hafner & Hans Manner & Léopold Simar, 2018. "The “wrong skewness” problem in stochastic frontier models: A new approach," Econometric Reviews, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(4), pages 380-400, April.
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  23. Daniel J. Henderson & Léopold Simar & Le Wang, 2017. "The three s of public schools: irrelevant inputs, insufficient resources and inefficiency," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(12), pages 1164-1184, March.
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  24. Abdelaati Daouia & Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2017. "Measuring firm performance using nonparametric quantile-type distances," Econometric Reviews, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(1-3), pages 156-181, March.
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  25. Léopold Simar & Ingrid Keilegom & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2017. "Nonparametric least squares methods for stochastic frontier models," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 47(3), pages 189-204, June.
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  26. Park, Byeong U. & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2017. "Nonparametric estimation of dynamic discrete choice models for time series data," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 108(C), pages 97-120.
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  27. Simar, Léopold & Vanhems, Anne & Van Keilegom, Ingrid, 2016. "Unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity in nonparametric frontier estimation," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 190(2), pages 360-373.
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  28. Li, Degui & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2016. "Generalized nonparametric smoothing with mixed discrete and continuous data," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 100(C), pages 424-444.
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  29. Cazals, Catherine & Fève, Frédérique & Florens, Jean-Pierre & Simar, Léopold, 2016. "Nonparametric instrumental variables estimation for efficiency frontier," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 190(2), pages 349-359.
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  30. Alois Kneip & Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2016. "Testing Hypotheses in Nonparametric Models of Production," Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(3), pages 435-456, July.
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  31. Cinzia Daraio & Léopold Simar, 2016. "Efficiency and benchmarking with directional distances: a data-driven approach," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 67(7), pages 928-944, July.
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  32. Daraio, Cinzia & Bonaccorsi, Andrea & Simar, Léopold, 2015. "Rankings and university performance: A conditional multidimensional approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 244(3), pages 918-930.
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  33. Camilla Mastromarco & Léopold Simar, 2015. "Effect of FDI and Time on Catching Up: New Insights from a Conditional Nonparametric Frontier Analysis," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(5), pages 826-847, August.
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  34. Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2015. "Statistical Approaches for Non-parametric Frontier Models: A Guided Tour," International Statistical Review, International Statistical Institute, vol. 83(1), pages 77-110, April.
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  35. Byeong Park & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2015. "Categorical data in local maximum likelihood: theory and applications to productivity analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 43(2), pages 199-214, April.
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  36. Daraio, Cinzia & Bonaccorsi, Andrea & Simar, Léopold, 2015. "Efficiency and economies of scale and specialization in European universities: A directional distance approach," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 9(3), pages 430-448.
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  37. Kneip, Alois & Simar, Léopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid, 2015. "Frontier estimation in the presence of measurement error with unknown variance," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 184(2), pages 379-393.
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  38. Kneip, Alois & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2015. "When Bias Kills The Variance: Central Limit Theorems For Dea And Fdh Efficiency Scores," Econometric Theory, Cambridge University Press, vol. 31(2), pages 394-422, April.
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  39. Florens, Jean-Pierre & Simar, Léopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid, 2014. "Frontier estimation in nonparametric location-scale models," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 178(P3), pages 456-470.
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  40. Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Léopold, 2014. "Directional distances and their robust versions: Computational and testing issues," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 237(1), pages 358-369.
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  41. Luiza Bădin & Cinzia Daraio & Léopold Simar, 2014. "Explaining inefficiency in nonparametric production models: the state of the art," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 214(1), pages 5-30, March.
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  42. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2013. "Estimation and Inference in Nonparametric Frontier Models: Recent Developments and Perspectives," Foundations and Trends(R) in Econometrics, now publishers, vol. 5(3–4), pages 183-337, June.
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  43. Simar, Léopold & Vanhems, Anne & Wilson, Paul W., 2012. "Statistical inference for DEA estimators of directional distances," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 220(3), pages 853-864.
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  44. Simar, Léopold & Vanhems, Anne, 2012. "Probabilistic characterization of directional distances and their robust versions," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 166(2), pages 342-354.
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  45. Daouia, Abdelaati & Florens, Jean-Pierre & Simar, Léopold, 2012. "Regularization of nonparametric frontier estimators," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 168(2), pages 285-299.
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  46. Bădin, Luiza & Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Léopold, 2012. "How to measure the impact of environmental factors in a nonparametric production model," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 223(3), pages 818-833.
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  47. Alois Kneip & Léopold Simar & Paul Wilson, 2011. "A Computationally Efficient, Consistent Bootstrap for Inference with Non-parametric DEA Estimators," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 38(4), pages 483-515, November.
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  48. Daraio, Cinzia & Bonaccorsi, Andrea & Geuna, Aldo & Lepori, Benedetto & Bach, Laurent & Bogetoft, Peter & F. Cardoso, Margarida & Castro-Martinez, Elena & Crespi, Gustavo & de Lucio, Ignacio Fernandez, 2011. "The European university landscape: A micro characterization based on evidence from the Aquameth project," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 40(1), pages 148-164, February.
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  49. Léopold Simar & Paul Wilson, 2011. "Inference by the m out of n bootstrap in nonparametric frontier models," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 36(1), pages 33-53, August.
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  50. Léopold Simar & Paul Wilson, 2011. "Two-stage DEA: caveat emptor," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 36(2), pages 205-218, October.
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  51. Axel Schaffer & Léopold Simar & Jan Rauland, 2011. "Decomposing Regional Efficiency," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 51(5), pages 931-947, December.
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  52. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2011. "Stochastic FDH/DEA estimators for frontier analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 36(1), pages 1-20, August.
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  53. Torben Schubert & Léopold Simar, 2011. "Innovation and export activities in the German mechanical engineering sector: an application of testing restrictions in production analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 36(1), pages 55-69, August.
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  54. Badin, Luiza & Daraio, Cinzia & Simar, Léopold, 2010. "Optimal bandwidth selection for conditional efficiency measures: A data-driven approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 201(2), pages 633-640, March.
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  55. Seok-Oh Jeong & Byeong Park & Léopold Simar, 2010. "Nonparametric conditional efficiency measures: asymptotic properties," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 173(1), pages 105-122, January.
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  56. Geenens, Gery & Simar, Léopold, 2010. "Nonparametric tests for conditional independence in two-way contingency tables," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 101(4), pages 765-788, April.

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    1. Geenens Gery, 2010. "Who Deserved the 2008-2009 Belgian Football Champion Title? A Semiparametric Answer," Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, De Gruyter, vol. 6(4), pages 1-31, October.
    2. Hui, Francis K.C. & Geenens, Gery, 2012. "Nonparametric bootstrap tests of conditional independence in two-way contingency tables," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 112(C), pages 130-144.

  57. Alexandra Daskovska & Léopold Simar & Sébastien Bellegem, 2010. "Forecasting the Malmquist productivity index," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 33(2), pages 97-107, April.
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  58. Leopold Simar & Paul Wilson, 2010. "Inferences from Cross-Sectional, Stochastic Frontier Models," Econometric Reviews, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(1), pages 62-98.
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  59. Bădin, Luiza & Simar, Léopold, 2009. "A Bias-Corrected Nonparametric Envelopment Estimator Of Frontiers," Econometric Theory, Cambridge University Press, vol. 25(5), pages 1289-1318, October.

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    1. Graziella Bonanno & Domenico De Giovanni & Filippo Domma, 2015. "The “Wrong Skewness” Problem: A Re-Specification Of Stochastic Frontiers," Working Papers 201502, Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica e Finanza "Giovanni Anania" - DESF.
    2. Xia, X.H. & Chen, Y.B. & Li, J.S. & Tasawar, H. & Alsaedi, A. & Chen, G.Q., 2014. "Energy regulation in China: Objective selection, potential assessment and responsibility sharing by partial frontier analysis," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 292-302.
    3. George Halkos & Nickolaos Tzeremes, 2010. "The effect of foreign ownership on SMEs performance: An efficiency analysis perspective," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 34(2), pages 167-180, October.
    4. Aldea, Anamaria & Ciobanu, Anamaria & Stancu, Ion, 2012. "The Renewable Energy Development: A Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis," Journal for Economic Forecasting, Institute for Economic Forecasting, vol. 0(1), pages 5-19, March.
    5. Halkos, George & Tzeremes, Nickolaos, 2009. "Exploring the effect of countries’ economic prosperity on their biodiversity performance," MPRA Paper 32102, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Halkos, George E. & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2011. "A conditional nonparametric analysis for measuring the efficiency of regional public healthcare delivery: An application to Greek prefectures," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 103(1), pages 73-82.
    7. Simar, Leopold & Wilson, Paul, 2015. "Statistical Approaches for Nonparametric Frontier Models: A Guided Tour," LIDAM Reprints ISBA 2015022, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    8. Byeong Park & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2015. "Categorical data in local maximum likelihood: theory and applications to productivity analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 43(2), pages 199-214, April.
    9. Astrid Cullmann & Jürgen Apfelbeck & Christian von Hirschhausen, 2006. "Efficiency Analysis of East European Electricity Distribution in Transition: Legacy of the Past?," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 553, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    10. Calogero Guccio & Marco Ferdinando Martorana & Isidoro Mazza, 2016. "Efficiency assessment and convergence in teaching and research in Italian public universities," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 107(3), pages 1063-1094, June.

  60. Park, Byeong U. & Simar, Léopold & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2008. "Local likelihood estimation of truncated regression and its partial derivatives: Theory and application," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 146(1), pages 185-198, September.
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  61. Sung-ko Li & Léopold Simar & Paul Wilson & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2008. "Introduction for Journal of Productivity Analysis special issue on transitioning economics," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 29(2), pages 77-77, April.

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    1. Dongwei Su & Xingxing He, 2012. "Ownership structure, corporate governance and productive efficiency in China," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 38(3), pages 303-318, December.
    2. L. Bouten, 2011. "CSR reporting: The mastery of the internal dynamics," Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium 11/721, Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.

  62. Kneip, Alois & Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2008. "Asymptotics And Consistent Bootstraps For Dea Estimators In Nonparametric Frontier Models," Econometric Theory, Cambridge University Press, vol. 24(6), pages 1663-1697, December.
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  63. Léopold Simar, 2007. "How to improve the performances of DEA/FDH estimators in the presence of noise?," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 28(3), pages 183-201, December.
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  64. Kumbhakar, Subal C. & Park, Byeong U. & Simar, Leopold & Tsionas, Efthymios G., 2007. "Nonparametric stochastic frontiers: A local maximum likelihood approach," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 137(1), pages 1-27, March.

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    2. Léopold Simar, 2007. "How to improve the performances of DEA/FDH estimators in the presence of noise?," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 28(3), pages 183-201, December.
    3. Brissimis, Sophocles N. & Delis, Manthos D., 2011. "Bank-level estimates of market power," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 212(3), pages 508-517, August.
    4. Abdelaati Daouia & Jean-Pierre Florens & Léopold Simar, 2020. "Robust frontier estimation from noisy data: a Tikhonov regularization approach," Post-Print hal-02573853, HAL.
    5. Eduardo Fé & Richard Hofler, 2013. "Count data stochastic frontier models, with an application to the patents–R&D relationship," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 39(3), pages 271-284, June.
    6. Parmeter, Christopher F. & Simar, Léopold & Van Keilegom, Ingrid & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2021. "Inference in the Nonparametric Stochastic Frontier Model," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2021029, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
    7. Mark Andor & Frederik Hesse, 2014. "The StoNED age: the departure into a new era of efficiency analysis? A monte carlo comparison of StoNED and the “oldies” (SFA and DEA)," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 41(1), pages 85-109, February.
    8. Delis, Manthos D & Iosifidi, Maria & Tsionas, Efthymios, 2012. "On the estimation of marginal cost," MPRA Paper 43514, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    9. Miao, Chenglin & Fang, Debin & Sun, Liyan & Luo, Qiaoling, 2017. "Natural resources utilization efficiency under the influence of green technological innovation," Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier, vol. 126(C), pages 153-161.
    10. Latruffe, Laure & Nauges, Céline, 2010. "Technical efficiency and conversion to organic farming: the case of France," Working Papers 210393, Institut National de la recherche Agronomique (INRA), Departement Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et Alimentation, Espace et Environnement (SAE2).
    11. Mark Andor & Frederik Hesse, "undated". "The StoNED age: The Departure Into a New Era of Efficiency Analysis? An MC study Comparing StoNED and the "Oldies" (SFA and DEA)," Working Papers 201285, Institute of Spatial and Housing Economics, Munster Universitary.
    12. Ferrara, Giancarlo & Bucci, Valeria & Campagna, Arianna, 2023. "Audit, presumptive taxation and efficiency: An integrated approach for tax compliance analysis," Economic Systems, Elsevier, vol. 47(3).
    13. Arne Henningsen & Matěj Bělín & Géraldine Henningsen, 2017. "New insights into the stochastic ray production frontier," IFRO Working Paper 2017/01, University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics.
    14. Hung-pin Lai, 2013. "Estimation of the threshold stochastic frontier model in the presence of an endogenous sample split variable," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 40(2), pages 227-237, October.
    15. Subal C. Kumbhakar & Christopher F. Parmeter & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2022. "Stochastic Frontier Analysis: Foundations and Advances II," Springer Books, in: Subhash C. Ray & Robert G. Chambers & Subal C. Kumbhakar (ed.), Handbook of Production Economics, chapter 9, pages 371-408, Springer.
    16. Yaguo Deng & Helena Veiga & Michael P. Wiper, 2019. "Efficiency evaluation of hotel chains: a Spanish case study," SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, Springer;Spanish Economic Association, vol. 10(2), pages 115-139, June.
    17. 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.
    18. Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2011. "Stochastic FDH/DEA estimators for frontier analysis," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 36(1), pages 1-20, August.
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    20. Deng, Yaguo & Lopes Moreira Da Veiga, María Helena & Wiper, Michael Peter, 2016. "Efficiency evaluation of Spanish hotel chains," DES - Working Papers. Statistics and Econometrics. WS 23897, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Estadística.
    21. Xu Guo & Gao-Rong Li & Michael McAleer & Wing-Keung Wong, 2017. "Specification Testing of Production in a Stochastic Frontier Model," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 17-097/III, Tinbergen Institute.
    22. Daniel J. Henderson, 2009. "A Non‐parametric Examination of Capital–Skill Complementarity," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 71(4), pages 519-538, August.
    23. Fukuyama, Hirofumi & Matousek, Roman & Tzeremes, Nickolaos G., 2023. "Estimating the degree of firms’ input market power via data envelopment analysis: Evidence from the global biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 305(2), pages 946-960.
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    25. Girard, Stéphane & Guillou, Armelle & Stupfler, Gilles, 2013. "Frontier estimation with kernel regression on high order moments," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 116(C), pages 172-189.
    26. Llorca, Manuel & Orea, Luis & Pollitt, Michael G., 2016. "Efficiency and environmental factors in the US electricity transmission industry," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 234-246.
    27. Taining Wang & Jinjing Tian & Feng Yao, 2021. "Does high debt ratio influence Chinese firms’ performance? A semiparametric stochastic frontier approach with zero inefficiency," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 61(2), pages 587-636, August.
    28. Subal Kumbhakar & Efthymios Tsionas, 2008. "Scale and efficiency measurement using a semiparametric stochastic frontier model: evidence from the U.S. commercial banks," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 34(3), pages 585-602, June.
    29. Kuosmanen, Timo, 2006. "Stochastic Nonparametric Envelopment of Data: Combining Virtues of SFA and DEA in a Unified Framework," Discussion Papers 11864, MTT Agrifood Research Finland.
    30. Christopher F. Parmeter & Hung-Jen Wang & Subal C. Kumbhakar, 2017. "Nonparametric estimation of the determinants of inefficiency," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 47(3), pages 205-221, June.
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    33. Prakashan Veettil & Stijn Speelman & Guido Huylenbroeck, 2013. "Estimating the Impact of Water Pricing on Water Use Efficiency in Semi-arid Cropping System: An Application of Probabilistically Constrained Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 27(1), pages 55-73, January.
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    45. 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.
    46. Valentin Zelenyuk & Valentyn Panchenko, 2023. "Bayesian Artificial Neural Networks for Frontier Efficiency Analysis," CEPA Working Papers Series WP022023, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    47. 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.
    48. Worthington, Andrew C. & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2018. "Data envelopment analysis, truncated regression and double-bootstrap for panel data with application to Chinese bankingAuthor-Name: Du, Kai," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 265(2), pages 748-764.
    49. Kortelainen, Mika, 2008. "Estimation of semiparametric stochastic frontiers under shape constraints with application to pollution generating technologies," MPRA Paper 9257, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    50. Marijn Verschelde & Michel Dumont & Glenn Rayp & Bruno Merlevede, 2015. "Semiparametric stochastic metafrontier efficiency of European manufacturing firms," Post-Print hal-01563023, HAL.
    51. Artem Prokhorov & Kien C. Tran & Mike G. Tsionas, 2021. "Estimation of semi- and nonparametric stochastic frontier models with endogenous regressors," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 3043-3068, June.
    52. Zhou, Jianhua & Parmeter, Christopher F. & Kumbhakar, Subal C., 2020. "Nonparametric estimation of the determinants of inefficiency in the presence of firm heterogeneity," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 286(3), pages 1142-1152.
    53. 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.
    54. 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.
    55. Antti Saastamoinen, 2015. "Heteroscedasticity Or Production Risk? A Synthetic View," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 29(3), pages 459-478, July.
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    90. Bao Hoang Nguyen & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Aggregate efficiency of industry and its groups: the case of Queensland public hospitals," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 60(6), pages 2795-2836, June.
    91. Bernardino Benito & José Solana & María-Rocío Moreno, 2014. "Explaining efficiency in municipal services providers," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 42(3), pages 225-239, December.
    92. Pham, Manh D. & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2019. "Weak disposability in nonparametric production analysis: A new taxonomy of reference technology sets," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 274(1), pages 186-198.
    93. Bogetoft, Peter & Kromann, Lene, 2018. "Evaluating treatment effects using data envelopment analysis on matched samples: An analysis of electronic information sharing and firm performance," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 270(1), pages 302-313.
    94. Paul Wilson, 2003. "Testing Independence in Models of Productive Efficiency," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 20(3), pages 361-390, November.
    95. Mike Tsionas & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2021. "Goodness-of-fit in Optimizing Models of Production: A Generalization with a Bayesian Perspective," CEPA Working Papers Series WP182021, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    96. Sickles, Robin C. & Song, Wonho & Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2018. "Econometric Analysis of Productivity: Theory and Implementation in R," Working Papers 18-008, Rice University, Department of Economics.
    97. Timo Kuosmanen & Mika Kortelainen & Timo Sipiläinen & Laurens Cherchye, 2005. "Firm and Industry Level Profit Efficiency Analysis Under Incomplete Price Data: A Nonparametric Approach based on Absolute and Uniform Shadow Prices," Microeconomics 0509011, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    98. Olesen, Ole B. & Petersen, Niels Christian, 2016. "Stochastic Data Envelopment Analysis—A review," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 251(1), pages 2-21.
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    152. Calogero Guccio & Anna Mignosa & Ilde Rizzo, 2017. "Disentangle inefficiency in the production activities of Italian national libraries: A network DEA approach," ACEI Working Paper Series AWP-04-2017, Association for Cultural Economics International, revised Mar 2017.
    153. Maria Nieswand & Stefan Seifert, 2016. "Operational Conditions in Regulatory Benchmarking Models: A Monte Carlo Analysis," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 1585, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
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    156. 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.
    157. Daniel J. Henderson & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2007. "Testing for (Efficiency) Catching‐up," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 73(4), pages 1003-1019, April.
    158. Esmeralda Ramalho & Joaquim Ramalho & Pedro Henriques, 2010. "Fractional regression models for second stage DEA efficiency analyses," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 34(3), pages 239-255, December.
    159. Kao, Chiang & Liu, Shiang-Tai, 2019. "Stochastic efficiency measures for production units with correlated data," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 273(1), pages 278-287.
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    161. Barros, Carlos Pestana & Peypoch, Nicolas, 2009. "An evaluation of European airlines' operational performance," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 122(2), pages 525-533, December.
    162. Somesh Kumar Mathur, 2004. "Efficiency of Delhi International Airport Using Data Envelopment," Industrial Organization 0412010, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    163. Oleg Badunenko & Daniel J. Henderson & Valentin Zelenyuk, 2007. "Technological Change and Transition: Relative Contributions to Worldwide Growth during the 1990s," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 740, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    164. Nieswand, Maria & Seifert, Stefan, 2018. "Environmental factors in frontier estimation – A Monte Carlo analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 265(1), pages 133-148.
    165. Fukuyama, Hirofumi & Shiraz, Rashed Khanjani, 2015. "Cost-effectiveness measures on convex and nonconvex technologies," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 246(1), pages 307-319.
    166. Simar, Léopold & Wilson, Paul W., 2020. "Technical, allocative and overall efficiency: Estimation and inference," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 282(3), pages 1164-1176.
    167. Cazals, Catherine & Florens, Jean-Pierre & Simar, Leopold, 2002. "Nonparametric frontier estimation: a robust approach," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 106(1), pages 1-25, January.
    168. Zelenyuk, Valentin, 2020. "Aggregation of inputs and outputs prior to Data Envelopment Analysis under big data," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 282(1), pages 172-187.
    169. Michel Mouchart & Marie Vandresse, 2007. "Bargaining powers and market segmentation in freight transport," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 22(7), pages 1295-1313.
    170. Cristian Barra & Nazzareno Ruggiero, 2022. "How do dimensions of institutional quality improve Italian regional innovation system efficiency? The Knowledge production function using SFA," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 32(2), pages 591-642, April.
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    173. Amir Moradi-Motlagh & Ali Emrouznejad, 2022. "The origins and development of statistical approaches in non-parametric frontier models: a survey of the first two decades of scholarly literature (1998–2020)," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 318(1), pages 713-741, November.
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Chapters

  1. Andrea Bonaccorsi & Cinzia Daraio & Léopold Simar, 2014. "Scale and research specialization in European universities: a directional distance approach to teaching efficiency," Chapters, in: Andrea Bonaccorsi (ed.), Knowledge, Diversity and Performance in European Higher Education, chapter 10, pages iii-iii, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson, 2011. "Performance of the Bootstrap for DEA Estimators and Iterating the Principle," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: William W. Cooper & Lawrence M. Seiford & Joe Zhu (ed.), Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis, chapter 0, pages 241-271, Springer.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  3. Andrea Bonaccorsi & Cinzia Daraio & Léopold Simar, 2007. "Efficiency and Productivity in European Universities: Exploring Trade-offs in the Strategic Profile," Chapters, in: Andrea Bonaccorsi & Cinzia Daraio (ed.), Universities and Strategic Knowledge Creation, chapter 5, Edward Elgar Publishing.

    Cited by:

    1. Agasisti, Tommaso & Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joana, 2014. "Exploring universities’ efficiency differentials between countries in a multi-year perspective: an application of bootstrap DEA and Malmquist index to Italy and Poland, 2001-2011," Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Working Paper Series qt14m8g45v, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley.
    2. Lena Malesevic Perovic & Maja Mihaljevic Kosor, 2020. "The Efficiency of Universities in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals," The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal, Academy of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania, vol. 22(54), pages 516-516, April.
    3. Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz, 2015. "Analysis of efficiency of European and American higher education institutions - nonparametric approach," Ekonomia journal, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, vol. 40.
    4. Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna, 2017. "An evaluation and explanation of (in)efficiency in higher education institutions in Europe and the U.S. with the application of two-stage semi-parametric DEA," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 46(9), pages 1595-1605.

  4. Dominique Deprins & Léopold Simar & Henry Tulkens, 2006. "Measuring Labor-Efficiency in Post Offices," Springer Books, in: Parkash Chander & Jacques Drèze & C. Knox Lovell & Jack Mintz (ed.), Public goods, environmental externalities and fiscal competition, chapter 0, pages 285-309, Springer.
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