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October 2024, Volume 62, Issue 2
- 121-137 Efficiency in electricity distribution in Sweden and the effects of small-scale generation, electric vehicles and dynamic tariffs
by Tommy Lundgren & Mattias Vesterberg - 139-173 Performance analysis of hospitals in Australia and its peers: a systematic and critical review
by Zhichao Wang & Bao Hoang Nguyen & Valentin Zelenyuk - 175-196 Innovation strategies and firm performance
by Peter Bogetoft & Lene Kroman & Aleksandrs Smilgins & Anders Sørensen - 197-215 Approximations and inference for envelopment estimators of production frontiers
by Cinzia Daraio & Léopold Simar - 217-238 The inefficiency of courts of justice: industry structure, capacity and misallocation
by Antonio Peyrache & Angelo Zago - 239-255 The contribution of innovation to farm-level productivity
by Iordanis Parikoglou & Grigorios Emvalomatis & Doris Läpple & Fiona Thorne & Michael Wallace - 257-257 Correction: The contribution of innovation to farm-level productivity
by Iordanis Parikoglou & Grigorios Emvalomatis & Doris Läpple & Fiona Thorne & Michael Wallace
August 2024, Volume 62, Issue 1
- 1-27 Facet analysis in data envelopment analysis: some pitfalls of the CRS models
by O. B. Olesen & N. C. Petersen - 29-52 Estimation of industry-level productivity with cross-sectional dependence by using spatial analysis
by Jaepil Han & Robin C. Sickles - 53-70 Skewness-based test diagnosis of technical inefficiency in spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier models
by Ming-Yu Deng & Levent Kutlu & Mingxi Wang - 71-90 “Wrong” skewness and endogenous regressors in stochastic frontier models: an instrument-free copula approach with an application to estimate firm efficiency in Vietnam
by Rouven E. Haschka - 91-110 Best practices, performance advantage and trade-offs: new insights from frontier analysis
by Rui Sousa & Ana S. Camanho & Maria Conceição Silva & Giovani J. C. Silveira & Behrouz Arabi - 111-118 Efficient estimation of true fixed-effects stochastic frontier models
by Ruggero Bellio & Luca Grassetti - 119-119 Correction: Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models
by Inmaculada C. Álvarez & Luis Orea & Alan Wall
June 2024, Volume 61, Issue 3
- 191-194 Introduction to the special issue on African productivity
by Almas Heshmati & Christopher F. Parmeter & Robin C. Sickles - 195-214 Growing green: enablers and barriers for Africa
by Chuku Chuku & Victor Ajayi - 215-227 Ph.D. publication productivity: the role of gender and race in supervision in South Africa
by Giulia Rossello & Robin Cowan & Jacques Mairesse - 229-257 An empirical assessment of the role of trade in services in export product diversification in Sub-Saharan Africa
by Bouraima Sawadogo & Constant Fouopi Djiogap & Idrissa Ouedraogo & Moukaila Mouzamilou Takpara - 259-278 Persistent and transient productive efficiency in the African airline industry
by Gianmaria Martini & Flavio Porta & Davide Scotti - 279-303 Technology and managerial performance of farm operators by age in Ghana
by Jacob Asravor & Francis Tsiboe & Richard K. Asravor & Alexander N. Wiredu & Manfred Zeller - 305-320 The impacts of agricultural productivity on structural transformation, and poverty alleviation in Africa: evidence from Guinea-Bissau
by Júlio Vicente Cateia & Maurício Vaz Lobo Bittencourt & Terciane Sabadini Carvalho & Luc Savard - 321-332 The evaluation of productivity in South African deciduous fruit industry: evidence from stone and pome fruits
by Lindikaya W. Myeki & Omphile Temoso & Bonani Nyhodo
April 2024, Volume 61, Issue 2
- 85-106 Two-tiered stochastic frontier models: a Bayesian perspective
by Shirong Zhao & Jeremy Losak - 107-120 Inter-industry and intra-industry switching as sources of productivity growth: structural change of Finland’s ICT industries
by Natalia Kuosmanen & Timo Kuosmanen - 121-134 The wrong skewness problem in stochastic frontier analysis: a review
by Alecos Papadopoulos & Christopher F. Parmeter - 135-155 Estimation of endogenous firm productivity without instruments: an application to foreign investment
by Fei Jia & Minjie Huang & Shunan Zhao - 157-181 The contribution of industrial robots to labor productivity growth and economic convergence: a production frontier approach
by Andreas Eder & Wolfgang Koller & Bernhard Mahlberg - 183-190 The denominator rule with unit ratio difference
by Rolf Färe & Giannis Karagiannis
February 2024, Volume 61, Issue 1
- 1-18 Production analysis with asymmetric noise
by Oleg Badunenko & Daniel J. Henderson - 19-36 On asymmetry and quantile estimation of the stochastic frontier model
by William C. Horrace & Christopher F. Parmeter & Ian A. Wright - 37-42 Some notes on the asymmetry of the regression error
by Alecos Papadopoulos - 43-46 A note on functional form specification in random coefficients stochastic frontier models
by Ioannis Skevas - 47-62 Short-run Johansen frontier-based industry models: methodological refinements and empirical illustration on fisheries
by Kristiaan Kerstens & Jafar Sadeghi & Ignace Woestyne & John Walden - 63-82 Eliminating congestion in China’s papermaking and paper products industry: From both the perspective of increasing and decreasing inputs
by Xian-tong Ren & Guo-liang Yang - 83-83 Correction to: Eliminating congestion in China’s papermaking and paper products industry: from both the perspective of increasing and decreasing inputs
by Xian-tong Ren & Guo-liang Yang
December 2023, Volume 60, Issue 3
- 227-228 Special Symposium on Lifetime Achievements of Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf
by Robin C. Sickles - 229-247 Productivity analysis: roots, foundations, trends and perspectives
by Valentin Zelenyuk - 249-256 Path-based set representations
by Robert G. Chambers - 257-272 Another look at productivity growth in industrialized countries
by Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson - 273-294 Efficiency decomposition for multi-level multi-components production technologies
by Antonio Peyrache & Maria C. A. Silva - 295-314 Adjusting for teammate effects in evaluating college prospects for the NBA draft
by Joseph Kuehn - 315-332 The role of social protection in mitigating the effects of rainfall shocks. Evidence from Ethiopia
by Silvio Daidone & Francisco Pereira Fontes - 333-343 The conditional mode in parametric frontier models
by William C. Horrace & Hyunseok Jung & Yi Yang
October 2023, Volume 60, Issue 2
- 107-108 Introduction to the symposium on inequality, discrimination, and productivity
by Christopher F. Parmeter & Robin C. Sickles - 109-127 The role of poverty measurements in achieving educational equity through school finance reform
by Lori Taylor & Shawna Grosskopf & Kathy Hayes & Laura Razzolini - 129-145 The gender-equal Union? Measuring female (dis)advantage and achievement in European Union Member States using a benefit-of-the-doubt framework
by Perrine Dehaspe & Nicky Rogge - 147-177 Firm heterogeneity, biased technological change, and total factor productivity: Evidence from China
by Qizheng Gao & Jianqing Zhang & Guo Chen - 179-188 A ray-based input distance function to model zero-valued output quantities: Derivation and an empirical application
by Juan José Price & Arne Henningsen - 189-202 Efficiency measurement in the tendering of road surface renewal contracts
by Andrew S. J. Smith & Jan-Eric Nilsson & Ivan Ridderstedt & Oskar Johansson - 203-226 The impact of local financial development and corruption control on firm efficiency in Vietnam: evidence from a geoadditive stochastic frontier analysis
by Rouven E. Haschka & Helmut Herwartz & Clara Silva Coelho & Yabibal M. Walle
August 2023, Volume 60, Issue 1
- 1-19 Detecting Learning by Exporting and from Exporters
by Jingfang Zhang & Emir Malikov - 21-36 Spatial dependence in production frontier models
by Kassoum Ayouba - 37-48 On hypothesis testing in latent class and finite mixture stochastic frontier models, with application to a contaminated normal-half normal model
by Alexander D. Stead & Phill Wheat & William H. Greene - 49-62 The Estimation of a Polluting By-Production Technology Using Statistical Copulas
by Alexandre Repkine - 63-85 Productivity in Procurement Auctions of Pavement Contracts in Mexico
by Daniel Prudencio - 87-105 Performance of Water Utilities Evaluated from Different Stakeholders Perspectives: An Application to the Ivorian Sector
by Jean-Philippe Boussemart & Daouda Diakité & Raluca Parvulescu
June 2023, Volume 59, Issue 3
- 217-224 A generalized flexible functional form for α-returns to scale
by Hideyuki Mizobuchi & Valentin Zelenyuk - 225-241 Sources of productivity growth in Eastern Europe and Russia before the global financial crisis
by Ilya B. Voskoboynikov - 243-258 Spatial and cross-sectoral input spillover effects: the case of the Italian tourism industry
by Silvia Emili & Federica Galli - 259-279 Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models
by Inmaculada C. Álvarez & Luis Orea & Alan Wall - 281-285 Addition and aggregative efficiency
by Rolf Färe & Giannis Karagiannis - 287-306 Does joining the European monetary union improve labor productivity? A synthetic control approach
by Hong Zhuang & Miao Grace Wang & Imre Ersoy & Mesut Eren
April 2023, Volume 59, Issue 2
- 121-133 Firm heterogeneity, worker training and labor productivity: the role of endogenous self-selection
by Sizhong Sun - 135-152 Semi-parametric modelling of inefficiencies in stochastic frontier analysis
by Giovanni Forchini & Raoul Theler - 153-172 Analyzing the land and labour productivity of farms producing renewable energy: the Italian case study
by Antonella Basso & Maria Bruna Zolin - 173-188 Proper modelling of industrial production systems with unintended outputs: a different perspective
by Harald Dyckhoff - 189-194 Further improvements of finite sample approximation of central limit theorems for envelopment estimators
by Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk & Shirong Zhao - 195-215 Trade for catch-up: examining how global value chains participation affects productive efficiency
by Gideon Ndubuisi & Solomon Owusu
February 2023, Volume 59, Issue 1
- 1-13 Is newer always better? A reinvestigation of productivity dynamics using updated PWT data
by Yan Meng & Christopher F. Parmeter & Valentin Zelenyuk - 15-43 Measuring heterogeneity in hospital productivity: a quantile regression approach
by Galina Besstremyannaya & Sergei Golovan - 45-60 Assessing environmentally sensitive productivity growth: incorporating externalities and heterogeneity into water sector evaluations
by Jayanath Ananda & Dong-hyun Oh - 61-78 Capacity utilization change over time
by Yao-yao Song & Xian-tong Ren & Guo-liang Yang - 79-97 Regularized conditional estimators of unit inefficiency in stochastic frontier analysis, with application to electricity distribution market
by Zangin Zeebari & Kristofer Månsson & Pär Sjölander & Magnus Söderberg - 99-119 Environmental information disclosure and firm production: evidence from the estimated efficiency of publicly listed firms in China
by Yunguo Lu & Lin Zhang
December 2022, Volume 58, Issue 2
- 109-128 Do Egocentric information networks influence technical efficiency of farmers? Empirical evidence from Ghana
by Sadick Mohammed & Awudu Abdulai - 129-150 A general equilibrium assessment of COVID-19's labor productivity impacts on china's regional economies
by Xi He & Edward J. Balistreri & Gyu Hyun Kim & Wendong Zhang - 151-170 The empirics of granular origins: some challenges and solutions with an application to the UK
by Nikola Dacic & Marko Melolinna - 171-184 Extending the zero-sum gains data envelopment analysis model
by Thanasis Bouzidis & Giannis Karagiannis - 185-202 Cross-country agricultural TFP convergence and capital deepening: evidence for induced innovation from 17 OECD countries
by Yu Sheng & V. Eldon Ball & Kenneth Erickson & Carlos San Juan Mesonada - 203-220 In search for the most preferred solution in value efficiency analysis
by Panagiotis Ravanos & Giannis Karagiannis - 221-237 Aggregate productivity and inefficient cropping patterns in Uganda
by Bruno Morando - 239-253 Assessing total factor productivity across Africa: an empirical investigation
by Zhiyang Shen & Vivian Valdmanis
August 2022, Volume 58, Issue 1
- 1-13 Persistent and transient inefficiency in a spatial autoregressive panel stochastic frontier model
by Hung-pin Lai & Kien C. Tran - 15-33 The productivity growth of euro area banks
by Ivan Huljak & Reiner Martin & Diego Moccero - 35-54 Model uncertainty and efficiency measurement in stochastic frontier analysis with generalized errors
by Kamil Makieła & Błażej Mazur - 55-74 Stochastic vs. deterministic frontier distance output function: Evidence from Brazilian higher education institutions
by Ariel Gustavo Letti & Mauricio Vaz Lobo Bittencourt & Luis E. Vila - 75-93 Global Malmquist and cost Malmquist indexes for group comparison
by Barnabé Walheer - 95-108 Investment Inefficiency and Corporate Social Responsibility
by Tadesse Getacher Engida & Christopher F. Parmeter & Xudong Rao & Alfons G.J.M. Oude Lansink
June 2022, Volume 57, Issue 3
- 243-253 The shadow prices of CO2, SO2 and NOx for U.S. coal power industry 2010–2017: a convex quantile regression method
by Shirong Zhao & Guangshun Qiao - 255-267 The structure of production technologies with ratio inputs and outputs
by Ole Bent Olesen & Niels Christian Petersen & Victor V. Podinovski - 269-284 Exploring hospital efficiency within and between Italian regions: new empirical evidence
by Cristian Barra & Raffaele Lagravinese & Roberto Zotti - 285-296 Goodness--of--fit tests for stochastic frontier models based on the characteristic function
by Simos G. Meintanis & Christos K. Papadimitriou - 297-311 Energy intensity improvement and energy productivity changes: an analysis of BRICS and G7 countries
by Ching-Ren Chiu & Ming-Chung Chang & Jin-Li Hu - 313-324 Elasticity measurement on multiple levels of DEA frontiers: an application to agriculture
by Seda Busra Sarac & Kazim Baris Atici & Aydin Ulucan
April 2022, Volume 57, Issue 2
- 115-130 Nonparametric measurement of potential gains from mergers: an additive decomposition and application to Indian bank mergers
by Subhash C. Ray & Shilpa Sethia - 131-155 Measuring and comparing World Bank regions’ ‘ease of doing business’ opportunity sets
by Nicky Rogge & Alena Kolyaseva - 157-176 Environmental efficiency measurement when producers control pollutants under heterogeneous conditions: a generalization of the materials balance approach
by Andreas Eder - 177-191 Technical progress and induced innovation in China: a variable profit function approach
by K. K. Gary Wong & Belton M. Fleisher & Min Qiang Zhao & William H. McGuire - 193-211 The choice of efficiency benchmarking metric in evaluating firm productivity and viability
by S. C. West & A. W. Mugera & R. S. Kingwell - 213-241 Technical efficiency and firm heterogeneity in stochastic frontier models: application to smallholder maize farms in Ethiopia
by Ali M. Oumer & Amin Mugera & Michael Burton & Atakelty Hailu
February 2022, Volume 57, Issue 1
- 1-22 Decomposition of technical efficiency under fixed proportion technologies: an application of data envelopment analysis
by Viera Mendelová - 23-40 Evidence from shadow price of equity on “Too-Big-to-Fail” Banks
by Paul W. Wilson & Shirong Zhao - 41-59 Crop yield convergence across districts in India’s poorest state
by Rishabh Sinha - 61-78 A generalization of environmental productivity analysis
by A. Abad & P. Ravelojaona - 79-92 Efficiency measurement of higher education units using multilevel frontier analysis
by Abolghasem Naderi - 93-113 Capital and labor misallocation in the Netherlands
by Maurice J.G. Bun & Jasper Winter
December 2021, Volume 56, Issue 2
- 69-84 Heterogeneity in frontier analysis: does it matter for benchmarking farms?
by Elizabeth Ahikiriza & Jef Meensel & Xavier Gellynck & Ludwig Lauwers - 85-101 Modeling dependence in two-tier stochastic frontier models
by Alecos Papadopoulos & Christopher F. Parmeter & Subal C. Kumbhakar - 103-113 Density deconvolution with Laplace errors and unknown variance
by Jun Cai & William C. Horrace & Christopher F. Parmeter - 115-132 Changes in the productive efficiency of U.S. flour mills in the late nineteenth century: an input-distance-function approach
by Yongseung Han & Arthur Snow & Ronald S. Warren - 133-138 Quadratic-mean-of-order-r indexes of output, input and productivity
by Hideyuki Mizobuchi & Valentin Zelenyuk - 139-150 Vertical integration vs. specialization: a nonparametric conditional efficiency estimate for the global semiconductor industry
by Guangshun Qiao & Zhan-ao Wang - 151-170 Estimation of bank performance from multiple perspectives: an alternative solution to the deposit dilemma
by Dan Li & Yanfeng Li & Yeming Gong & Jiawei Yang
August 2021, Volume 56, Issue 1
- 1-14 From micro to macro: a note on the analysis of aggregate productivity dynamics using firm-level data
by Daniel A. Dias & Carlos Robalo Marques - 15-31 Farm and non-farm labor decisions and household efficiency
by Dimitris Christopoulos & Margarita Genius & Vangelis Tzouvelekas - 33-44 Estimation and efficiency evaluation of stochastic frontier models with interval dependent variables
by Shih-Tang Hwu & Tsu-Tan Fu & Wen-Jen Tsay - 45-68 Optimal solutions of multiplier DEA models
by Victor V. Podinovski & Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva
June 2021, Volume 55, Issue 3
- 155-155 Symposium Overview
by William H. Greene & Robert G. Chambers & Victor Podinovski - 157-175 Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs
by Finn R. Førsund - 177-184 A commentary on “Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs” by Finn Førsund
by Sushama Murty & R. Robert Russell - 185-188 Comment: Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs
by F. Ang & K. H. Dakpo - 189-193 Comments: Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs
by Rolf Färe & Shawna Grosskopf - 195-201 Rejoinders to the comments on my paper “Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs”
by Finn R. Førsund
April 2021, Volume 55, Issue 2
- 47-70 Resource allocation in multi-divisional multi-product firms
by Binlei Gong & Robin C. Sickles - 71-89 Latent heterogeneity to evaluate the effect of human capital on world technology frontier
by Camilla Mastromarco & Léopold Simar - 91-105 The closest strong efficient targets in the FDH technology: an enumeration method
by J. Vakili & R. Sadighi Dizaji - 107-133 On aggregation of multi-factor productivity indexes
by Rolf Färe & Valentin Zelenyuk - 135-153 World agricultural convergence
by Lingran Yuan & Shurui Zhang & Shuo Wang & Zesen Qian & Binlei Gong
February 2021, Volume 55, Issue 1
- 1-14 A new family of copulas, with application to estimation of a production frontier system
by Christine Amsler & Artem Prokhorov & Peter Schmidt - 15-29 Stochastic frontier models using the Generalized Exponential distribution
by Alecos Papadopoulos - 31-40 The sensitivity of efficiency scores to input and other choices in stochastic frontier analysis: an empirical investigation
by Quang Nguyen & Sean Pascoe & Louisa Coglan & Son Nghiem - 41-46 Estimation of costs of technical and allocative inefficiency
by Subal C. Kumbhakar & Mike G. Tsionas
December 2020, Volume 54, Issue 2
- 87-105 Knowledge accumulation in US agriculture: research and learning by doing
by Sansi Yang & C. Richard Shumway - 107-119 A solution to log of dependent variables with negative observations
by Mustafa U. Karakaplan & Levent Kutlu & Mike G. Tsionas - 121-137 Immigration and firm productivity: evidence from the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database
by Wulong Gu & Feng Hou & Garnett Picot - 139-156 A semiparametric stochastic input distance frontier model with application to the Indonesian banking industry
by Kai Sun & Ruhul Salim
August 2020, Volume 54, Issue 1
- 1-12 Size and productivity: a conditional approach for Italian pharmaceutical sector
by Pierluigi Toma - 13-26 Distance functions, bank output, and productivity
by David B. Humphrey - 27-41 Modeling the effect of competition on US manufacturing sectors’ efficiency: an order-m frontier analysis
by Michael L. Polemis & Thanasis Stengos & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes - 43-57 Efficiency measurement for general network systems: a slacks-based measure model
by Victor John M. Cantor & Kim Leng Poh - 59-74 A non-parametric investigation of supply side factors and healthcare efficiency in the U.S
by Richard Gearhart & Nyakundi Michieka - 75-86 Unknown latent structure and inefficiency in panel stochastic frontier models
by Levent Kutlu & Kien C. Tran & Mike G. Tsionas
June 2020, Volume 53, Issue 3
- 287-303 Hypothesis testing in nonparametric models of production using multiple sample splits
by Léopold Simar & Paul W. Wilson - 305-320 Performance analysis for three pillars of sustainability
by Jean-Philippe Boussemart & Hervé Leleu & Zhiyang Shen & Vivian Valdmanis - 321-338 Do manufacturing entrepreneurs in Australia have (or develop) a productivity advantage?
by Sasan Bakhtiari - 339-354 Probabilistic frontier regression model for multinomial ordinal type output data
by Meena Badade & T. V. Ramanathan - 355-375 Operational efficiency vs clinical safety, care appropriateness, timeliness, and access to health care
by Diogo Cunha Ferreira & Alexandre Morais Nunes & Rui Cunha Marques - 377-390 Evaluating the efficiency of municipalities in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity
by Jose M. Cordero & Cristina Polo & Nickolaos G. Tzeremes
April 2020, Volume 53, Issue 2
- 141-162 Assessing the productivity consequences of agri-environmental practices when adoption is endogenous
by AJ A. Bostian & Moriah B. Bostian & Marita Laukkanen & Antti Simola - 163-180 Estimating efficiency effects in a panel data stochastic frontier model
by Satya Paul & Sriram Shankar - 181-225 Insights from machine learning for evaluating production function estimators on manufacturing survey data
by José Luis Preciado Arreola & Daisuke Yagi & Andrew L. Johnson - 227-241 Productivity change in the privatized water sector in China (1999–2006)
by Jinjin Zhao - 243-263 Non-structural and structural models in productivity analysis: study of the British Isles during the 2007–2009 financial crisis
by Binlei Gong & Robin C. Sickles - 265-285 ICT labor, software usage, and productivity: firm-level evidence from Turkey
by Hüseyin Taştan & Feride Gönel
February 2020, Volume 53, Issue 1
- 1-3 Introduction to APPC-2018, a Special Issue of the Journal of Productivity Analysis, “Novel Applications of Efficiency and Productivity Analyses in the Asia-Pacific Region”
by Jeong-Dong Lee & Almas Heshmati - 5-19 The importance of research teams with diverse backgrounds: Research collaboration in the Journal of Productivity Analysis
by Hyun-do Choi & Dong-hyun Oh - 21-36 Estimation of technical change and TFP growth based on observable technology shifters
by Almas Heshmati & Masoomeh Rashidghalam - 37-52 Measures of industry productivity change: the case of thermal electricity generation in Chinese provinces 2000–2014
by Finn R. Førsund & Ke Wang - 53-68 Efficiency of New Zealand’s District Health Boards at Providing Hospital Services: A stochastic frontier analysis
by Nan Jiang & Antony Andrews - 69-78 Spatiotemporal analysis of Korean ginseng farm productivity
by Heesun Jang & Hyunhee Kim & Hojeong Park - 79-93 TFP change and its components for Swedish manufacturing firms during the 2008–2009 financial crisis
by Pontus Mattsson & Jonas Månsson & William H. Greene - 95-105 A novel decomposition of aggregate total factor productivity change
by Bert M. Balk - 107-123 How to survive and compete: the impact of information asymmetry on productivity
by Man Jin & Huiting Tian & Subal C. Kumbhakar - 125-139 Allocation of resources within subgroups of an industry: a case study in the Chinese industrial sector
by Chun-kei Tsang & Sung-ko Li
December 2019, Volume 52, Issue 1
- 1-27 Government assistance and total factor productivity: firm-level evidence from China
by Richard Harris & Shengyu Li - 29-35 Evaluating the CDF of the distribution of the stochastic frontier composed error
by Christine Amsler & Peter Schmidt & Wen-Jen Tsay - 37-55 The effects of access to credit on productivity: separating technological changes from changes in technical efficiency
by Nusrat Abedin Jimi & Plamen V. Nikolov & Mohammad Abdul Malek & Subal Kumbhakar - 57-68 Farm size, inefficiency, and rice production cost in China
by Xiaoheng Zhang & Xiaohua Yu & Xu Tian & Xianhui Geng & Yingheng Zhou - 69-84 A dynamic stochastic frontier model with threshold effects: U.S. bank size and efficiency
by Pavlos Almanidis & Mustafa U. Karakaplan & Levent Kutlu - 85-100 Technological change, technological catch-up and export orientation: evidence from Latin American Countries
by Nickolaos G. Tzeremes
June 2019, Volume 51, Issue 2
- 91-103 Model averaging estimators for the stochastic frontier model
by Christopher F. Parmeter & Alan T. K. Wan & Xinyu Zhang - 105-124 Measuring the efficiency of European education systems by combining Data Envelopment Analysis and Multiple-Criteria Evaluation
by Tommaso Agasisti & Giuseppe Munda & Ralph Hippe - 125-136 Examining irrigation productivity in U.S. agriculture using a single-factor approach
by Eric Njuki & Boris E. Bravo-Ureta - 137-151 Disaggregation for efficiency analysis
by Barnabé Walheer - 153-174 Profit efficiency and earnings quality: Evidence from the Spanish banking industry
by Diego Prior & Emili Tortosa-Ausina & María Pilar García-Alcober & Manuel Illueca - 175-187 Stochastic frontier models with correlated effects
by Giannis Karagiannis & Magnus Kellermann
February 2019, Volume 51, Issue 1
- 1-19 Estimation of inefficiency in stochastic frontier models: a Bayesian kernel approach
by Guohua Feng & Chuan Wang & Xibin Zhang - 21-38 Robust stochastic frontier analysis: a Student’s t-half normal model with application to highway maintenance costs in England
by Phill Wheat & Alexander D. Stead & William H. Greene - 39-53 Technology Gap and Managerial Efficiency: A Comparison between Islamic and Conventional Banks in MENA
by Mohamed Chaffai & M. Kabir Hassan - 55-72 Benchmarking service quality in the urban water industry
by Jayanath Ananda & Nicholas Pawsey - 73-89 Efficiency of hospitals in the Czech Republic: Conditional efficiency approach
by Camilla Mastromarco & Lenka Stastna & Jana Votapkova
December 2018, Volume 50, Issue 3
- 85-100 Reconciling the Porter hypothesis with the traditional paradigm about environmental regulation: a nonparametric approach
by Jean Pierre Huiban & Camilla Mastromarco & Antonio Musolesi & Michel Simioni - 101-116 Stochastic frontier models with network selectivity
by William C. Horrace & Hyunseok Jung - 117-138 Estimation of technical change and price elasticities: a categorical time–varying coefficient approach
by Guohua Feng & Jiti Gao & Xiaohui Zhang - 139-154 Stochastic non-smooth envelopment of data for multi-dimensional output
by Julia Schaefer & Marcel Clermont - 155-173 Heterogeneous spillovers among Spanish provinces: a generalized spatial stochastic frontier model
by Alberto Gude & Inmaculada Álvarez & Luis Orea
October 2018, Volume 50, Issue 1
- 1-24 Estimation and testing of stochastic frontier models using variational Bayes
by Gholamreza Hajargasht & William E. Griffiths - 25-40 Lasting lending relationships and technical efficiency. Evidence on European SMEs
by Mariarosaria Agostino & Sabrina Ruberto & Francesco Trivieri - 41-54 Dynamic stochastic analysis of the farm subsidy-efficiency link: evidence from France
by Jean Joseph Minviel & Timo Sipiläinen - 55-70 DEA target setting using lexicographic and endogenous directional distance function approaches
by Sebastián Lozano & Narges Soltani - 71-84 A decomposition of US business sector TFP growth into technical progress and cost efficiency components
by W. Erwin Diewert & Kevin J. Fox
June 2018, Volume 49, Issue 2
- 111-121 Management in production: from unobserved to observed
by Thomas P. Triebs & Subal C. Kumbhakar - 123-136 An iterative approach to the estimation of the abatement costs of harmful emissions
by Alexandre Repkine & Dongki Min - 137-151 Estimation of cost efficiency without cost data
by Levent Kutlu & Ran Wang - 153-171 Application of a bias-corrected meta-frontier approach and an endogenous switching regression to analyze the technical efficiency of conservation tillage for wheat in South Asia
by Sreejith Aravindakshan & Frederick Rossi & T. S. Amjath-Babu & Prakashan Chellattan Veettil & Timothy J. Krupnik - 173-185 Modelling spatial regimes in farms technologies
by A. G. Billé & C. Salvioni & R. Benedetti - 187-206 Misallocation, productivity and fragmentation of production: the case of Latvia
by Konstantins Benkovskis
February 2018, Volume 49, Issue 1
- 1-15 Using DEA for measuring teachers’ performance and the impact on students’ outcomes: evidence for Spain
by Daniel Santín & Gabriela Sicilia - 17-23 Technological inefficiency indexes: a binary taxonomy and a generic theorem
by R. Robert Russell & William Schworm