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June 2017, Volume 47, Issue 3
- 189-204 Nonparametric least squares methods for stochastic frontier models
by Léopold Simar & Ingrid Keilegom & Valentin Zelenyuk - 205-221 Nonparametric estimation of the determinants of inefficiency
by Christopher F. Parmeter & Hung-Jen Wang & Subal C. Kumbhakar - 223-246 Sources of airline productivity from carbon emissions: an analysis of operational performance under good and bad outputs
by Boon Liat Lee & Clevo Wilson & Carl A. Pasurka & Hidemichi Fujii & Shunsuke Managi - 247-257 Accounting for risk in productivity analysis: an application to Norwegian dairy farming
by Gudbrand Lien & Subal C. Kumbhakar & J. Brian Hardaker - 259-276 Regulatory incentives to water losses reduction: the case of England and Wales
by Humberto Brea-Solis & Sergio Perelman & David Saal - 277-289 Impact of ICT on the productivity of the firm: evidence from Turkish manufacturing
by Yılmaz Kılıçaslan & Robin C. Sickles & Aliye Atay Kayış & Yeşim Üçdoğruk Gürel - 291-308 The contribution of research and innovation to productivity
by Amani Elnasri & Kevin J. Fox
April 2017, Volume 47, Issue 2
- 103-116 Measuring the impact of the economic crisis on the level of change in EU social inclusion: period 2005–2012
by Nicky Rogge - 117-128 Measuring and analysing productivity change in a metafrontier framework
by C. J. O’Donnell & Saeideh Fallah-Fini & Konstantinos Triantis - 129-142 Environmental regulations and allocative efficiency: application to coal-to-gas substitution in the U.S. electricity sector
by Kenneth Løvold Rødseth - 143-166 Incorporating temporal and country heterogeneity in growth accounting—an application to EU-KLEMS
by A. Peyrache & A. N. Rambaldi - 167-183 Immigration and productivity: a Spanish tale
by Alicia Gómez–Tello & Rosella Nicolini
February 2017, Volume 47, Issue 1
- 1-16 Technical efficiency for Colombian small crop and livestock farmers: A stochastic metafrontier approach for different production systems
by Ligia Alba Melo-Becerra & Antonio José Orozco-Gallo - 17-31 Measuring input-specific productivity change based on the principle of least action
by Juan Aparicio & Magdalena Kapelko & Bernhard Mahlberg & Jose L. Sainz-Pardo - 33-47 Who benefits from job placement services? A two-sided analysis
by German Blanco - 49-64 The ‘wrong skewness’ problem: a re-specification of stochastic frontiers
by Graziella Bonanno & Domenico De Giovanni & Filippo Domma - 65-81 Regional energy efficiency and its determinants in China during 2001–2010: a slacks-based measure and spatial econometric analysis
by Kangjuan Lv & Anyu Yu & Yiwen Bian - 83-101 An international comparison of educational systems: a temporal analysis in presence of bad outputs
by Víctor Giménez & Claudio Thieme & Diego Prior & Emili Tortosa-Ausina
December 2016, Volume 46, Issue 2
- 109-119 Multi-directional productivity change: MEA-Malmquist
by Mette Asmild & Tomas Baležentis & Jens Leth Hougaard - 121-138 Comparison of production risks in the state-contingent framework: application to balanced panel data
by Kota Minegishi - 139-153 The role of pest pressure in technical and environmental inefficiency analysis of Dutch arable farms: an event-specific data envelopment approach
by Theodoros Skevas & Teresa Serra - 155-167 Measuring productivity and efficiency: a Kalman filter approach
by Meryem Duygun & Levent Kutlu & Robin C. Sickles - 169-184 Productivity effects of knowledge transfers through labour mobility
by Neil Foster-McGregor & Johannes Pöschl - 185-197 Bounded learning-by-doing and sources of firm level productivity growth in colombian food manufacturing industry
by Apurba Shee & Spiro E. Stefanou - 199-233 The spillover effects of foreign direct investment on the firms’ productivity performances
by Dyah Wulan Sari & Noor Aini Khalifah & Suyanto Suyanto - 235-248 The inter-industry employment effects of technological change
by Aykut Lenger
August 2016, Volume 46, Issue 1
- 1-13 Radar scanning the world production frontier
by Jens J. Krüger - 15-24 Leontief was not right after all
by Eric O’N. Fisher & Kathryn G. Marshall - 25-41 Bank efficiency measures, M&A decision and heterogeneity
by Stefano Caiazza & Alberto Franco Pozzolo & Giovanni Trovato - 43-62 How does the age structure of worker flows affect firm performance?
by Pekka Ilmakunnas & Mika Maliranta - 63-82 Does knowledge spill over across borders and technology regimes?
by Jaap W. B. Bos & Bertrand Candelon & Claire Economidou - 83-86 Modified fixed effects estimation of technical inefficiency
by Daniel Wikström - 87-107 Benchmarking for routines and organizational knowledge: a managerial accounting approach with performance feedback
by Mircea Epure
June 2016, Volume 45, Issue 3
- 229-245 Productivity spillovers of organization capital
by Wen Chen & Robert Inklaar - 247-259 Migration, local off-farm employment, and agricultural production efficiency: evidence from China
by Jin Yang & Hui Wang & Songqing Jin & Kevin Chen & Jeffrey Riedinger & Chao Peng - 261-274 Study of optimal capital adequacy ratios
by Yang Li & Yi-Kai Chen & Feng Sheng Chien & Wen Chih Lee & Yi Ching Hsu - 275-298 Evaluating the impact of the Bologna Process on the efficiency convergence of Italian universities: a non-parametric frontier approach
by Calogero Guccio & Marco Ferdinando Martorana & Luisa Monaco - 317-330 The impact of participation within formal standardization on firm performance
by Paul Wakke & Knut Blind & Florian Ramel
April 2016, Volume 45, Issue 2
- 121-130 A note on parameterizing input distance functions: does the choice of a functional form matter?
by Rolf Färe & Michael Vardanyan - 131-155 The determinants of productivity in Chinese large and medium-sized industrial firms, 1998–2007
by Sai Ding & Alessandra Guariglia & Richard Harris - 131-155 The determinants of productivity in Chinese large and medium-sized industrial firms, 1998–2007
by Sai Ding & Alessandra Guariglia & Richard Harris - 157-172 Can human capital variables be technology changing? An empirical test for rural households in Burkina Faso
by Fleur Wouterse - 157-172 Can human capital variables be technology changing? An empirical test for rural households in Burkina Faso
by Fleur Wouterse - 173-186 Estimating economies of scale and scope with flexible technology
by Thomas P. Triebs & David S. Saal & Pablo Arocena & Subal C. Kumbhakar - 173-186 Estimating economies of scale and scope with flexible technology
by Thomas Triebs & David Saal & Pablo Arocena & Subal Kumbhakar - 187-196 Persistent and transient productive inefficiency: a maximum simulated likelihood approach
by Massimo Filippini & William Greene - 197-214 Exploring cost dominance in crop farming systems between high and low pesticide use
by Jean-Philippe Boussemart & Hervé Leleu & Oluwaseun Ojo - 215-228 Economies of scale in Peru’s water and sanitation sector
by Augusto C. Mercadier & Walter A. Cont & Gustavo Ferro - 215-228 Economies of scale in Peru’s water and sanitation sector
by Augusto Mercadier & Walter Cont & Gustavo Ferro
February 2016, Volume 45, Issue 1
- 1-22 Innovation spillovers and firm performance: micro evidence from Spain (2004–2009)
by Esther Goya & Esther Vayá & Jordi Suriñach - 23-33 Multi-directional program efficiency: the case of Lithuanian family farms
by Mette Asmild & Tomas Baležentis & Jens Hougaard - 35-51 Estimating alternative technology sets in nonparametric efficiency analysis: restriction tests for panel and clustered data
by Anne Neumann & Maria Nieswand & Torben Schubert - 35-51 Estimating alternative technology sets in nonparametric efficiency analysis: restriction tests for panel and clustered data
by Anne Neumann & Maria Nieswand & Torben Schubert - 53-69 Semiparametric stochastic metafrontier efficiency of European manufacturing firms
by Marijn Verschelde & Michel Dumont & Glenn Rayp & Bruno Merlevede - 53-69 Semiparametric stochastic metafrontier efficiency of European manufacturing firms
by Marijn Verschelde & Michel Dumont & Glenn Rayp & Bruno Merlevede - 71-87 Composition versus decomposition in two-stage network DEA: a reverse approach
by Dimitris Despotis & Gregory Koronakos & Dimitris Sotiros - 89-102 A theory of intra-firm group design
by Semih Tumen - 103-115 Efficiency and regulation: a comparison of dairy farms in Ontario and New York State
by Peter Slade & Getu Hailu - 117-119 Dissecting aggregate output and labour productivity change: a postscript on the role of relative prices
by Jesus Dumagan & Bert Balk
December 2015, Volume 44, Issue 3
- 221-223 Guest editor’s introduction
by Suthathip Yaisawarng - 225-235 Climate policy, environmental performance, and profits
by Tommy Lundgren & Per-Olov Marklund - 237-248 How a regulatory capital requirement affects banks’ productivity: an application to emerging economies
by Meryem Duygun & Mohamed Shaban & Robin Sickles & Thomas Weyman-Jones - 249-264 Measuring Japanese bank performance: a dynamic network DEA approach
by Hirofumi Fukuyama & William Weber - 265-281 Monitoring bank performance in the presence of risk
by Mircea Epure & Esteban Lafuente - 283-292 Financing sources and firm level productivity growth: evidence from Indian manufacturing
by Sourafel Girma & Dev Vencappa - 293-307 The competitiveness and development strategies of provinces in China: a data envelopment analysis approach
by Sung Li & Long Zhao - 309-320 A Monte Carlo study on multiple output stochastic frontiers: a comparison of two approaches
by Géraldine Henningsen & Arne Henningsen & Uwe Jensen - 321-335 Metafrontier cost Malmquist productivity index: an application to Taiwanese and Chinese commercial banks
by Mei-Ying Huang & Jia-Ching Juo & Tsu-tan Fu - 337-349 A comparison of the technical efficiency of accounting firms among the US, China, and Taiwan under the framework of a stochastic metafrontier production function
by Bao-Guang Chang & Tai-Hsin Huang & Chun-Yi Kuo
October 2015, Volume 44, Issue 2
- 127-136 Primal and dual multi-output flexibility measures
by Swetlana Renner & Thomas Glauben & Heinrich Hockmann & Pierre Ouellette - 137-155 Cone ratio models with shared resources and nontransparent allocation parameters in network DEA
by Jingjing Ding & Chenpeng Feng & Gongbing Bi & Liang Liang & M. Khan - 157-173 Measuring the evolution of Korea’s material living standards 1980–2012
by Taehyoung Cho & Junghoon Kim & Paul Schreyer - 175-188 The dynamics of ICT adaptation and the productivity gaps across advanced nations
by Tero Kuusi - 189-198 The impact of inefficiency on diversification
by Alfons Oude Lansink & Spiro Stefanou & Magdalena Kapelko - 199-208 Stochastic frontiers with a Rayleigh distribution
by Gholamreza Hajargasht - 209-220 A post-truncation parameterization of truncated normal technical inefficiency
by Christine Amsler & Peter Schmidt & Wen-Jen Tsay
August 2015, Volume 44, Issue 1
- 1-20 Plant-level determinants of total factor productivity in Great Britain, 1997–2008
by Richard Harris & John Moffat - 21-38 The dynamics of productivity in Swiss universities
by Thomas Bolli & Mehdi Farsi - 39-49 Technical efficiency and technological gap of New Zealand dairy farms: a stochastic meta-frontier model
by Nan Jiang & Basil Sharp - 51-68 Adjustment costs and efficiency in Polish agriculture: a dynamic efficiency approach
by Supawat Rungsuriyawiboon & Heinrich Hockmann - 69-77 An entrepreneur performance index
by Harold Fried & Loren Tauer - 79-95 The impact of R&D and knowledge diffusion on the productivity of manufacturing firms in Turkey
by Hulya Ulku & Mehmet Pamukcu - 97-114 Consolidating the water industry: an analysis of the potential gains from horizontal integration in a conditional efficiency framework
by Michael Zschille - 115-126 Analysing the effectiveness of public service producers with endogenous resourcing
by David Mayston
June 2015, Volume 43, Issue 3
- 233-236 In Memoriam: Lennart Hjalmarsson, 1944–2012
by Subal Kumbhakar & Finn Førsund - 237-248 Are distance measures effective at measuring efficiency? DEA meets the vintage model
by Constantin Belu - 249-258 Foreign aid and productivity
by Ann Veiderpass - 259-267 On structural and average technical efficiency
by Giannis Karagiannis - 269-279 Productivity of tax offices in Norway
by Finn Førsund & Dag Edvardsen & Sverre Kittelsen - 281-293 Decomposing the productivity differences between hospitals in the Nordic countries
by Sverre Kittelsen & Benny Winsnes & Kjartan Anthun & Fanny Goude & Øyvind Hope & Unto Häkkinen & Birgitte Kalseth & Jannie Kilsmark & Emma Medin & Clas Rehnberg & Hanna Rättö - 295-305 Scale economies, technical change and efficiency in Norwegian electricity distribution, 1998–2010
by Subal Kumbhakar & Roar Amundsveen & Hilde Kvile & Gudbrand Lien - 307-326 The effects of efficiency and TFP growth on pollution in Europe: a multistage spatial analysis
by Morakinyo Adetutu & Anthony Glass & Karligash Kenjegalieva & Robin Sickles - 327-349 Are all firms inefficient?
by Seunghwa Rho & Peter Schmidt - 351-365 Financial center productivity and innovation prior to and during the financial crisis
by Claudia Curi & Ana Lozano-Vivas - 367-387 Decompositions of productivity growth into sectoral effects
by W. Diewert - 389-402 Sources of productivity spillovers: panel data evidence from China
by Badi Baltagi & Peter Egger & Michaela Kesina - 403-415 Broad breeding goals and production costs in dairy farming
by Daniel Atsbeha & Dadi Kristofersson & Kyrre Rickertsen
April 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2
- 119-131 Game, set and match: evaluating the efficiency of male professional tennis players
by Anthony Glass & Karligash Kenjegalieva & Jason Taylor - 133-138 Moments of the truncated normal distribution
by William Horrace - 139-150 Centralized or decentralized control of school resources? A network model
by Shawna Grosskopf & Kathy Hayes & Lori Taylor & William Weber - 151-164 Terminal units in DEA: definition and determination
by Vladimir Krivonozhko & Finn Førsund & Andrey Lychev - 165-182 Productivity and economic output of the education sector
by Wulong Gu & Ambrose Wong - 183-198 Conditional technology spillovers from foreign direct investment: evidence from Indian manufacturing industries
by Sanjaya Malik - 199-214 Categorical data in local maximum likelihood: theory and applications to productivity analysis
by Byeong Park & Léopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk - 215-223 Closed-form solution for a bivariate distribution in stochastic frontier models with dependent errors
by Emilio Gómez-Déniz & Jorge Pérez-Rodríguez - 225-230 The half-normal specification for the two-tier stochastic frontier model
by Alecos Papadopoulos - 231-231 Erratum to: How does a firm’s management of greenhouse gas emissions influence its economic performance? Analyzing effects through demand and productivity in Japanese manufacturing firms
by Kimitaka Nishitani & Shinji Kaneko & Satoru Komatsu & Hidemichi Fujii
February 2015, Volume 43, Issue 1
- 1-12 The contribution of physical and human capital accumulation to Italian regional growth: a nonparametric perspective
by Simone Gitto & Paolo Mancuso - 13-28 Crime in India: specification and estimation of violent crime index
by Kausik Chaudhuri & Payel Chowdhury & Subal Kumbhakar - 29-46 A finite sample improvement of the fixed effects estimator applied to technical inefficiency
by Daniel Wikström - 47-58 Bonus compensation and productivity: evidence from Indian manufacturing plant-level data
by Natalie Chun & Soohyung Lee - 59-74 Nonparametric analysis of technology and productivity under non-convexity: a neighborhood-based approach
by Jean-Paul Chavas & Kwansoo Kim - 75-83 Using ex ante output elicitation to model state-contingent technologies
by Robert Chambers & Teresa Serra & Spiro Stefanou - 85-97 Constrained nonparametric estimation of input distance function
by Kai Sun - 99-104 On directional scale elasticities
by Bert Balk & Rolf Färe & Giannis Karagiannis - 105-117 Maximum likelihood estimation of the stochastic frontier model with endogenous switching or sample selection
by Hung-pin Lai
December 2014, Volume 42, Issue 3
- 225-239 Explaining efficiency in municipal services providers
by Bernardino Benito & José Solana & María-Rocío Moreno - 241-254 A new approach to estimating the metafrontier production function based on a stochastic frontier framework
by Cliff Huang & Tai-Hsin Huang & Nan-Hung Liu - 255-275 Directed technological change, skill complementarities and sectoral productivity growth: evidence from industrialized countries during the new economy
by Thomas Strobel - 277-292 Under pressure: community water systems in the United States—a production model with water quality and organization type effects
by Roberto Mosheim - 293-304 Returns to scale effect in labour productivity growth
by Hideyuki Mizobuchi - 305-325 A firm level perspective on migration: the role of extra-EU workers in Italian manufacturing
by Giulia Bettin & Alessia Lo Turco & Daniela Maggioni - 327-338 State productivity growth in agriculture: catching-up and the business cycle
by V. Ball & Carlos San-Juan-Mesonada & Camilo Ulloa - 339-354 Significant drivers of growth in Africa
by Oleg Badunenko & Daniel Henderson & Romain Houssa - 355-366 How does a firm’s management of greenhouse gas emissions influence its economic performance? Analyzing effects through demand and productivity in Japanese manufacturing firms
by Kimitaka Nishitani & Shinji Kaneko & Satoru Komatsu & Hidemichi Fujii
October 2014, Volume 42, Issue 2
- 103-121 Assessing the productivity of the Italian hospitality sector: a post-WDEA pooled-truncated and spatial analysis
by Claudio Detotto & Manuela Pulina & Juan Brida - 123-136 Closed-skew normality in stochastic frontiers with individual effects and long/short-run efficiency
by Roberto Colombi & Subal Kumbhakar & Gianmaria Martini & Giorgio Vittadini - 137-155 On the robustness of R&D
by Kul Luintel & Mosahid Khan & Konstantinos Theodoridis - 157-169 Estimating farmers’ productive and marketing inefficiency: an application to vegetable producers in Benin
by Alphonse Singbo & Alfons Oude Lansink & Grigorios Emvalomatis - 171-173 A note on the assumed distributions in stochastic frontier models
by Aljar Meesters - 175-186 Distance optimization approach to ratio-form efficiency measures in data envelopment analysis
by Hirofumi Fukuyama & Hiroya Masaki & Kazuyuki Sekitani & Jianming Shi - 187-210 Exploring reallocation’s apparent weak contribution to growth
by Mitsukuni Nishida & Amil Petrin & Sašo Polanec - 211-223 Efficiency measurement when producers control pollutants: a non-parametric approach
by Kenneth Rødseth
August 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1
- 1-13 The real exchange rate and the structure of aggregate production
by Ulrich Kohli & Jean-Marc Natal - 15-24 Scale efficiency and homotheticity: equivalence of primal and dual measures
by Valentin Zelenyuk - 25-34 Firm efficiency, industry performance and the economy: three-way decomposition with an application to Andalusia
by Antonio Amores & Thijs ten Raa - 35-43 Dissecting aggregate output and labour productivity change
by Bert Balk - 45-54 Stochastic frontier models with threshold efficiency
by Sungwon Lee & Young Lee - 55-65 Understanding prediction intervals for firm specific inefficiency scores from parametric stochastic frontier models
by Phill Wheat & William Greene & Andrew Smith - 67-84 Estimation and efficiency measurement in stochastic production frontiers with ordinal outcomes
by William Griffiths & Xiaohui Zhang & Xueyan Zhao - 85-101 Bayesian estimation of inefficiency heterogeneity in stochastic frontier models
by Jorge Galán & Helena Veiga & Michael Wiper
June 2014, Volume 41, Issue 3
- 339-349 Does recession drive convergence in firms’ productivity? Evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms
by Álvaro Escribano & Rodolfo Stucchi - 351-365 Estimating scale economies in financial intermediation: a doubly indirect inference
by Mokhtar Kouki & Sang Park & Eric Renault - 367-382 Measuring the effect of Kyoto protocol agreement on countries’ environmental efficiency in CO 2 emissions: an application of conditional full frontiers
by George Halkos & Nickolaos Tzeremes - 383-397 The economic performance of Swiss drinking water utilities
by Anne-Kathrin Faust & Andrea Baranzini - 399-417 Human capital contributions to explain productivity differences
by Konstantinos Chatzimichael & Vangelis Tzouvelekas - 419-434 Technological spillovers and productivity in Italian manufacturing firms
by Giuseppe Medda & Claudio Piga - 435-442 Hicks-Moorsteen versus Malmquist: a connection by means of a radial productivity index
by Antonio Peyrache - 443-456 Intangible investment in people and productivity
by Pekka Ilmakunnas & Hannu Piekkola - 457-473 Separating environmental efficiency into production and abatement efficiency: a nonparametric model with application to US power plants
by Benjamin Hampf
April 2014, Volume 41, Issue 2
- 173-174 Guest editors’ introduction
by Tsu-Tan Fu & Cliff Huang & C. Lovell - 175-186 Development pattern of the DEA research field: a social network analysis approach
by Jeong-Dong Lee & Chulwoo Baek & Ho-Sung Kim & Jin-Seok Lee - 187-200 Econometric estimation of distance functions and associated measures of productivity and efficiency change
by C. O’Donnell - 201-212 Australia’s mining productivity decline: implications for MFP measurement
by Simon Zheng & Harry Bloch - 213-226 Scale and scope economies of Japanese private universities revisited with an input distance function approach
by Jiro Nemoto & Noriko Furumatsu - 227-246 Globalisation, industrial diversification and productivity growth in large European R&D companies
by Michele Cincera & Julien Ravet - 247-262 Decomposing the change in profit of Taiwanese banks: incorporating risk
by Jia-Ching Juo - 263-275 Rate of return regulation and the Le Chatelier principle
by Gerald Granderson & Finn Forsund - 277-290 Incentive regulation and performance measurement of Taiwan’s incineration plants: an application of the four-stage DEA method
by Po-Chi Chen & Ching-Cheng Chang & Chih-Li Lai - 291-306 Efficiency and productivity in the Thai non-life insurance industry
by Saowaros Yaisawarng & Preecha Asavadachanukorn & Suthathip Yaisawarng - 307-320 Consistent estimation of technical and allocative efficiencies for a semiparametric stochastic cost frontier with shadow input prices
by Tai-Hsin Huang & Kuan-Chen Chen & Chien-Hsiu Lin & Ming-Tai Chung - 321-337 Technical efficiency in competing panel data models: a study of Norwegian grain farming
by Subal Kumbhakar & Gudbrand Lien & J. Hardaker
February 2014, Volume 41, Issue 1
- 1-2 In Memoriam: Catherine Morrison Paul, 1953–2010
by Lilyan Fulginiti - 3-17 Productivity, price recovery, capacity constraints and their financial consequences
by E. Grifell-Tatjé & C. Lovell - 19-39 US TFP growth and the contribution of changes in export and import prices to real income growth
by W. Diewert - 41-50 Productivity accounting for separable technologies
by Robert Chambers & Giannis Karagiannis & Vangelis Tzouvelekas - 51-67 Reviewing the literature on non-parametric dynamic efficiency measurement: state-of-the-art
by Saeideh Fallah-Fini & Konstantinos Triantis & Andrew Johnson - 69-83 A metafrontier directional distance function approach to assessing eco-efficiency
by Mercedes Beltrán-Esteve & José Gómez-Limón & Andrés Picazo-Tadeo & Ernest Reig-Martínez - 85-109 The StoNED age: the departure into a new era of efficiency analysis? A monte carlo comparison of StoNED and the “oldies” (SFA and DEA)
by Mark Andor & Frederik Hesse - 111-129 Estimation and inference under economic restrictions
by Christopher Parmeter & Kai Sun & Daniel Henderson & Subal Kumbhakar - 131-140 Technical efficiency with state-contingent production frontiers using maximum entropy estimators
by Pedro Macedo & Elvira Silva & Manuel Scotto - 141-151 Market conditions and the effect of diversification on mutual fund performance: should funds be more concentrative under crisis?
by Jin-Li Hu & Tzu-Pu Chang & Ray Chou - 153-172 Does school ownership matter? An unbiased efficiency comparison for regions of Spain
by Eva Crespo-Cebada & Francisco Pedraja-Chaparro & Daniel Santín
December 2013, Volume 40, Issue 3
- 251-255 Introduction to the special issue
by Jesus Pastor & Juan Aparicio & Luis Orea - 257-266 The directional profit efficiency measure: on why profit inefficiency is either technical or allocative
by Jose Zofio & Jesus Pastor & Juan Aparicio - 267-269 Directional output distance functions: endogenous directions based on exogenous normalization constraints
by R. Färe & S. Grosskopf & G. Whittaker - 271-283 Weight restrictions in DEA: misplaced emphasis?
by Finn Førsund - 285-292 Modeling CRS bounded additive DEA models and characterizing their Pareto-efficient points
by Jesus Pastor & Juan Aparicio & Juan Monge & Diego Pastor - 293-305 Estimation and inference in parametric deterministic frontier models
by Christine Amsler & Michael Leonard & Peter Schmidt - 307-321 Estimation and decomposition of inefficiency when producers maximize return to the outlay: an application to Norwegian fishing trawlers
by Subal Kumbhakar & Frank Asche & Ragnar Tveteras - 323-335 An econometric approach to estimating support prices and measures of productivity change in public hospitals
by C. O’Donnell & K. Nguyen - 337-355 Incorporating quality into the measurement of hospital efficiency: a double DEA approach
by Gary Ferrier & Julie Trivitt - 357-365 The response of decentralized health services to demand uncertainty and the role of political parties in the Spanish public health system
by Ana Rodríguez-Álvarez & David Roibás-Alonso & Alan Wall - 367-385 Is foreign-bank efficiency in financial centers driven by home or host country characteristics?
by Claudia Curi & Paolo Guarda & Ana Lozano-Vivas & Valentin Zelenyuk - 387-406 An examination of the cost efficiency of banks in Taiwan and China using the metafrontier cost function
by Mei-Ying Huang & Tsu-Tan Fu - 407-428 How efficiently do U.S. cities manage roadway congestion?
by Anthony Glass & Karligash Kenjegalieva & Robin Sickles - 429-442 Efficiency and stock returns: evidence from the insurance industry
by Chrysovalantis Gaganis & Iftekhar Hasan & Fotios Pasiouras - 443-455 Productivity decline in Australian coal mining
by C. Lovell & J. Lovell - 457-472 A shadow distance function decomposition of the environmental Kuznets curve: comparing the South China Sea and the Caribbean
by Roberto Mosheim
October 2013, Volume 40, Issue 2
- 153-171 Polarization of the worldwide distribution of productivity
by Oleg Badunenko & Daniel Henderson & R. Russell - 173-183 Maximizing public value for subsidized non-profit firms: a mathematical economic model
by Jos Blank - 185-195 Identifying bank outputs and inputs with a directional technology distance function
by Paolo Guarda & Abdelaziz Rouabah & Michael Vardanyan - 197-206 The scale of hospital production in different settings: one size does not fit all
by Mette Asmild & Bruce Hollingsworth & Stephen Birch - 207-218 Market imperfections, trade reform and total factor productivity growth: theory and practices from India
by Dibyendu Maiti - 219-226 Lower bound of cost efficiency measure in DEA with incomplete price information
by Lei Fang & Hecheng Li - 227-237 Estimation of the threshold stochastic frontier model in the presence of an endogenous sample split variable
by Hung-pin Lai - 239-250 Returns to scope: a metric for production synergies demonstrated for hospital production
by Brandon Pope & Andrew Johnson
August 2013, Volume 40, Issue 1
- 1-14 Maximum likelihood estimation of seemingly unrelated stochastic frontier regressions
by Hung-pin Lai & Cliff Huang