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July 2003, Volume 20, Issue 1
- 97-114 An Analysis of Differences in Earnings Between Small and Large Commercial Banks
by P.A.V.B. Swamy & George Tavlas & Thomas Lutton
April 2003, Volume 19, Issue 2
- 123-125 Guest Editors' Introduction
by Harold Fried & Suthathip Yaisawarng - 127-159 Index Number Concepts, Measures and Decompositions of Productivity Growth
by W. Diewert & Alice Nakamura - 161-177 Productivity and Efficiency Measurement in Our “New Economy”: Determinants, Interactions, and Policy Relevance
by Catherine Morrison Paul - 179-190 Simulated Likelihood Estimation of the Normal-Gamma Stochastic Frontier Function
by William Greene - 191-210 Measurement of Dynamic Efficiency in Production: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis to Japanese Electric Utilities
by Jiro Nemoto & Mika Goto - 211-226 Sequential Malmquist Indices of Productivity Growth: An Application to OECD Industrial Activities
by Victoria Shestalova - 227-249 Two-Stage DEA: An Application to Major League Baseball
by Thomas Sexton & Herbert Lewis - 251-269 Finding Closest Targets in Non-Oriented DEA Models: The Case of Convex and Non-Convex Technologies
by Maria Silva Portela & Pedro Borges & Emmanuel Thanassoulis - 271-275 Extending Productivity Research Frontiers: DEA Resource of Datasets and Errata
by Timothy Anderson & Paul Rouse & Rafael Borja & Ivan Hernandez & Fabricio Tobar & Liono Setiowijoso
January 2003, Volume 19, Issue 1
- 5-32 Nonparametric Dynamic Production Analysis and the Theory of Cost
by Elvira Silva & Spiro Stefanou - 33-58 Building the Knowledge Stock: Lags, Depreciation, and Uncertainty in R&D Investment and Link with Productivity Growth
by Roberto Esposti & Pierpaolo Pierani - 59-76 Measuring Inefficiency Via Potential Improvements
by Mette Asmild & Jens Hougaard & Dorte Kronborg & Hans Kvist - 77-91 Selecting Sites for New Facilities Using Data Envelopment Analysis
by Wade Cook & Rodney Green - 93-113 The Dynamic Production Axioms and System Dynamics Behaviors: The Foundation for Future Integration
by Warren Vaneman & Konstantinos Triantis - 115-115 Relative Performance of U.S. and Japanese Electricity Distribution: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Analysis
by Toru Hattori
November 2002, Volume 18, Issue 3
- 199-222 Bank Cost Efficiency and Output Specification
by Emili Tortosa-Ausina - 223-239 Cultivation Arrangements and the Cost Efficiency of Rice Farming in Taiwan
by Mei-Ying Huang & Cliff Huang & Tsu-Tan Fu - 241-253 Heteroscedasticity and Non-Monotonic Efficiency Effects of a Stochastic Frontier Model
by Hung-Jen Wang - 255-267 Efficiency of Chinese Enterprises
by Alice Shiu - 269-284 Relative Performance of U.S. and Japanese Electricity Distribution: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Analysis
by Toru Hattori
September 2002, Volume 18, Issue 2
- 111-128 Neoclassical Growth Accounting and Frontier Analysis: A Synthesis
by Thijs Raa & Pierre Mohnen - 129-144 One-Step and Two-Step Estimation of the Effects of Exogenous Variables on Technical Efficiency Levels
by Hung-jen Wang & Peter Schmidt - 145-159 Stochastic Frontiers and Asymmetric Information Models
by Philippe Gagnepain & Marc Ivaldi - 161-169 Supply Restricted Telecommunications Markets: The Effect of Technical Efficiency on Waiting Times
by Robert Bartels & Towhidul Islam - 171-189 Nonparametric Methods for Evaluating Economic Efficiency and Imperfect Competition
by Maarit Kallio & Markku Kallio
July 2002, Volume 18, Issue 1
- 5-22 Parametric Decomposition of a Generalized Malmquist Productivity Index
by Luis Orea - 23-38 Separating Technical Change from Time-Varying Technical Inefficiency in the Absence of Distributional Assumptions
by G. Karagiannis & P. Midmore & V. Tzouvelekas - 39-57 Heterogeneity in Returns to Scale: A Random Coefficient Analysis with Unbalanced Panel Data
by Erik Biørn & Kjersti-Gro Lindquist & Terje Skjerpen - 59-77 An Efficiency Comparison of European Banking Systems Operating under Different Environmental Conditions
by Ana Lozano-Vivas & Jesús Pastor & José Pastor - 79-102 How Fast Do Banks Adjust? A Dynamic Model of Labor-Use with an Application to Swedish Banks
by Subal Kumbhakar & Almas Heshmati & Lennart Hjalmarsson
May 2002, Volume 17, Issue 3
- 183-200 Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis under Price Uncertainty: A First-Order Stochastic Dominance Approach
by Timo Kuosmanen & Thierry Post - 201-211 A Note on Measuring the Productivity Offset for Regulatory Purposes
by Noel Uri - 213-231 Productivity Growth in the Western Hemisphere (1978–94): The Caribbean in Perspective
by Pooran Lall & Allen Featherstone & David Norman - 233-247 The Effect of Technological Change and Technical Inefficiencies on the Performance of Functional Forms
by Robert Gagné & Pierre Ouellette - 249-255 The Fixed Weighting Nature of A Cross-Evaluation Model
by Timothy Anderson & Keith Hollingsworth & Lane Inman
January 2002, Volume 17, Issue 1
- 7-12 William W. Cooper: A Legend in His Own Times
by Subhash Ray - 23-40 On the Origins of Data Envelopment Analysis
by Finn Førsund & Nikias Sarafoglou - 41-47 Two Perspectives on DEA: Unveiling the Link between CCR and Shephard
by Rolf Färe & Shawna Grosskopf - 49-64 On the Use of Value Efficiency Analysis and Some Further Developments
by Pekka Korhonen & Margareta Soismaa & Aapo Siljamäki - 65-82 Efficient Facet Based Efficiency Index: A Variable Returns to Scale Specification
by Tarmo Räty - 83-109 The Use of Data Envelopment Analysis with Probabilistic Assurance Regions for Measuring Hospital Efficiency
by Ole Olesen & Niels Petersen - 111-132 Evaluating the Adequacy of Parametric Functional Forms in Estimating Monotone and Concave Production Functions
by Rajiv Banker & Surya Janakiraman & Ram Natarajan - 133-155 Specification of Distance Functions Using Semi- and Nonparametric Methods with an Application to the Dynamic Performance of Eastern and Western European Air Carriers
by Robin Sickles & David Good & Lullit Getachew - 157-174 Accounting for Environmental Effects and Statistical Noise in Data Envelopment Analysis
by H. Fried & C. Lovell & S. Schmidt & S. Yaisawarng
November 2001, Volume 16, Issue 3
- 203-224 Cost and Production Duality: The Case of the Regulated Firm
by Pierre Ouellette & Stéphane Vigeant - 225-239 Returns to Scale and Scale Elasticity in Farrell, Russell and Additive Models
by Hirofumi Fukuyama - 241-261 Lower Bound Restrictions on Intensities in Data Envelopment Analysis
by Sylvain Bouhnik & Boaz Golany & Ury Passy & Steven Hackman & Dimitra Vlatsa - 263-267 A Comment on: Lower Bound Restrictions on Intensities in Data Envelopment Analysis by Bouhnik et al
by Niels Petersen - 269-281 A Decomposition of Total Factor Productivity Growth in Korean Manufacturing Industries: A Stochastic Frontier Approach
by Sangho Kim & Gwangho Han
September 2001, Volume 16, Issue 2
- 107-128 Measurement of Productivity Changes: Two Malmquist Index Approaches
by Rikard Althin - 129-147 A Dual Approach to Nonconvex Frontier Models
by Per Agrell & Jørgen Tind - 149-165 Outsourcing of Services and the Productivity Recovery in U.S. Manufacturing in the 1980s and 1990s
by Thijs Raa & Edward Wolff - 167-193 Cost-Output Relation, Technological Progress, and Clinical Activity Mix of US Hospital Pharmacies
by Albert Okunade
July 2001, Volume 16, Issue 1
- 5-29 The Structure of Municipal Water Supply Costs: Application to a Panel of French Local Communities
by Serge Garcia & Alban Thomas - 31-47 On Returns to Scale under Weight Restrictions in Data Envelopment Analysis
by Kaoru Tone - 49-62 Time Series Analysis of Strategic Pricing Behavior in the US Airline Industry
by Ila Alam & Leola Ross & Robin Sickles - 63-78 A Computational Framework for Accelerating DEA
by J.H. Dulá & R.M. Thrall - 79-100 Benchmarking Warehousing and Distribution Operations: An Input-Output Approach
by Steven Hackman & Edward Frazelle & Paul Griffin & Susan Griffin & Dimitra Vlasta
January 2001, Volume 15, Issue 3
- 201-215 FDH Directional Distance Functions with an Application to European Commercial Banks
by Laurens Cherchye & Timo Kuosmanen & Thierry Post
May 2001, Volume 15, Issue 3
- 159-183 Scale Efficiency and Productivity Change
by Bert Balk - 185-199 Inter-Firm and Intra-Firm Efficiency Measures
by Alfons Lansink & Elvira Silva & Spiro Stefanou - 217-246 Sensitivity and Stability Analysis in DEA: Some Recent Developments
by W. Cooper & Shanling Li & L. Seiford & Kaoru Tone & R. Thrall & J. Zhu
March 2001, Volume 15, Issue 2
- 79-94 A Parametric Distance Function Approach for Malmquist Productivity Index Estimation
by Hugo Fuentes & Emili Grifell-Tatjé & Sergio Perelman - 95-113 Stochastic DEA Models With Different Types of Input-Output Disturbances
by Zhimin Huang & Susan Li - 129-137 The Effect of Sample Size on the Mean Efficiency in DEA: Comment
by Matthias Staat - 139-144 The Range Adjusted Measure (RAM) in DEA: Comment
by Lukas Steinmann & Peter Zweifel - 145-152 The Range Adjusted Measure (RAM) in DEA: A Response to the Comment by Steinmann and Zweifel
by William Cooper & Kyung Park & Jesus Pastor
January 2001, Volume 15, Issue 1
- 5-29 Levels of Farm Sector Productivity: An International Comparison
by V. Ball & Jean-Christophe Bureau & Jean-Pierre Butault & Richard Nehring - 31-39 Homotheticity and Non-Radial Changes
by Robert Chambers & Thomas Mitchell - 41-58 Evaluating Effectiveness in Public Provision of Infrastructure and Equipment: The Case of Spanish Municipalities
by Angel Prieto & José ZofIo - 59-71 A Model of Optimal Dynamic Oil Extraction: Evidence From a Large Middle Eastern Field
by Robin Sickles & Peter Hartley
November 2000, Volume 14, Issue 3
- 191-207 Productivity Paradoxes and Their Resolution
by Shlomo Maital & Alexander Vaninsky - 209-224 Multicomponent Efficiency Measurement and Shared Inputs in Data Envelopment Analysis: An Application to Sales and Service Performance in Bank Branches
by Wade Cook & Moez Hababou & Hans Tuenter - 225-245 Estimating X-Efficiency in Taiwanese Banking Using a Translog Shadow Profit Function
by Tai-Hsin Huang - 247-266 Testing for Intermediate Outputs in Dynamic DEA Models: Accounting for Soil Capital in Rotational Crop Production and Productivity Measures
by Edward Jaenicke - 267-274 Returns to Scale on Nonparametric Deterministic Technologies: Simplifying Goodness-of-Fit Methods Using Operations on Technologies
by Walter Briec & Kristiaan Kerstens & Hervé Leleu & Philippe Eeckaut
September 2000, Volume 14, Issue 2
- 91-118 A Review and Empirical Comparison of Bayesian and Classical Approaches to Inference on Efficiency Levels in Stochastic Frontier Models with Panel Data
by Yangseon Kim & Peter Schmidt - 119-141 Stochastic Technical Change and Procyclical TFP The Case of Italian Agriculture
by Roberto Esposti - 143-162 A General Procedure to Recover the Marginal Products of a Cost Minimizing Firm
by Pierre Ouellette & Stéphane Vigeant - 163-182 Research Investment and the Economic Returns To Chinese Agricultural Research
by Shenggen Fan
July 2000, Volume 14, Issue 1
- 7-30 International Comparisons of Labour Productivity in Transport and Communications: The US, the UK and Germany
by Mary O'Mahony & Nicholas Oulton - 31-51 Total Factor Productivity Growth and Technical Change in a Profit Function Framework
by Giannis Karagiannis & George Mergos - 53-70 Incorporating Price-Induced Innovation in a Symmetric Generalised McFadden Cost Function with Several Outputs
by Ludo Peeters & Yves Surry - 71-83 A Monte Carlo Study on the Finite Sample Properties of the Gibbs Sampling Method for a Stochastic Frontier Model
by Xingyuan Zhang
May 2000, Volume 13, Issue 3
- 183-205 Full Likelihood Inference in Normal-Gamma Stochastic Frontier Models
by Efthymios Tsionas - 207-230 Fuzzy Pair-wise Dominance and Implications for Technical Efficiency Performance Assessment
by Konstantinos Triantis & Philippe Eeckaut - 231-247 Material And Value-Adding Inputs In Manufacturing Enterprises
by Steven Buccola - 249-262 Efficiency Measurement With Unbalanced Panel Data: Evidence from Tunisian Textile, Clothing and Leather Industries
by Mohamed Goaïed & Rym Ayed-Mouelhi - 263-267 What Is the Economic Meaning of FDH? A Reply to Thrall
by Laurens Cherchye & Timo Kuosmanen & Thierry Post
March 2000, Volume 13, Issue 2
- 91-92 New Approaches to Measures of Efficiency in DEA: An Introduction
by W. Cooper & C. Lovell - 93-103 Theory and Application of Directional Distance Functions
by Rolf Färe & Shawna Grosskopf - 105-123 Marginal Rates and Elasticities of Substitution with Additive Models in DEA
by W. Cooper & Dr. Park & Professor Ciurana - 125-137 Measures in DEA with an Application to the Malmquist Index
by Robert Thrall - 139-158 A Production Model With Firm-Specific Temporal Variation in Technical Inefficiency: With Application to Spanish Dairy Farms
by Rafael Cuesta - 159-174 Technical Efficiency and Its Determinants in China's Grain Production
by Weiming Tian & Guang Wan
January 2000, Volume 13, Issue 1
- 5-6 Editor's Introduction
by C.A. Lovell - 7-48 DEA and Activity Planning under Asymmetric Information
by Peter Bogetoft - 49-78 Statistical Inference in Nonparametric Frontier Models: The State of the Art
by Léopold Simar & Paul Wilson
November 1999, Volume 12, Issue 3
- 187-210 Estimating Production Uncertainty in Stochastic Frontier Production Function Models
by Anil Bera & Subhash Sharma - 211-231 Parametric and Nonparametric Approaches to Benchmarking the Regulated Firm
by Gerald Granderson & Carl Linvill - 233-247 Efficiency Evaluations Based on Potential (Non-Proportional) Improvements
by Peter Bogetoft & Jens Hougaard - 249-267 Incorporating the Operating Environment Into a Nonparametric Measure of Technical Efficiency
by Harold Fried & Shelton Schmidt & Suthathip Yaisawarng
September 1999, Volume 12, Issue 2
- 103-133 Probabilistic Bounds on the Virtual Multipliers in Data Envelopment Analysis: Polyhedral Cone Constraints
by Ole Olesen & Niels Petersen - 135-151 Measuring the Impact of Price-Induced Innovation on Technological Progress: Application to the U.S. Food Processing and Distribution Sector
by Pinar Celikkol & Spiro Stefanou - 153-159 A Flexible, Globally Regular Representation of Convex Production Possibilities Frontiers
by Carlo Perroni - 161-179 Production Risk and Productivity Growth: Some Findings for Norwegian Salmon Aquaculture
by Ragnar Tveteros
August 1999, Volume 12, Issue 1
- 5-20 Aggregation of Efficiency Indices
by Charles Blackorby & R. Russell - 21-43 An Integrated Assessment of Productivity and Efficiency Impacts of Information Technology Investments: Old Data, New Analysis and Evidence
by Byungtae Lee & Anitesh Barua - 45-53 An Average Derivative Estimation of Stochastic Frontiers
by Cliff Huang & Tsu-Tan Fu - 55-75 Sensitivity and Stability of the Classifications of Returns to Scale in Data Envelopment Analysis
by Lawrence Seiford & Joe Zhu - 77-94 Investing in Research and Education versus Commodity Programs: Implications for Agricultural Productivity
by Shiva Makki & Luther Tweeten & Cameron Thraen
June 1999, Volume 11, Issue 3
- 201-218 Estimating Multiproduct Cost Functions Over Time Using a Mixture of Normals
by Daniel Gropper & Steven Caudill & T. Beard - 219-241 Dynamic Factor Demands and Technology Measurement under Arbitrary Expectations
by Pierre Lasserre & Pierre Ouellette - 243-250 What Is the Economic Meaning of FDH?
by Robert Thrall - 251-273 Accounting for Environmental Influences in Stochastic Frontier Models: With Application to International Airlines
by Tim Coelli & Sergio Perelman & Elliot Romano - 275-300 Projections Onto Efficient Frontiers: Theoretical and Computational Extensions to DEA
by Frances Frei & Patrick Harker
April 1999, Volume 11, Issue 2
- 111-131 Hölder Distance Function and Measurement of Technical Efficiency
by W. Briec - 133-147 Reform and Efficiency Gains in the New Zealand Electrical Supply Industry
by Gerald Scully - 149-168 Using Simulation and Data Envelopment Analysis to Compare Assembly Line Balancing Solutions
by Patrick McMullen & Gregory Frazier - 169-182 Analysis of Intertemporal Efficiency Trends Using Rank Statistics With an Application Evaluating the Macro Economic Performance of OECD Nations
by P. Brockett & B. Golany & Shan Li - 183-194 Measuring Scale Efficiency from a Translog Production Function
by Subhash Ray
February 1999, Volume 11, Issue 1
- 5-42 RAM: A Range Adjusted Measure of Inefficiency for Use with Additive Models, and Relations to Other Models and Measures in DEA
by William Cooper & Kyung Park & Jesus Pastor - 43-54 Temporary Equilibrium, Full Equilibrium, and Elasticity of Cost
by Panos Fousekis - 55-66 Scale Economy Measures and Subequilibrium Impacts
by Catherine Paul - 67-80 Some Problems with the Ferrier/Hirschberg Bootstrap Idea
by Léopold Simar & Paul Wilson - 81-92 Can We Bootstrap DEA Scores?
by Gary Ferrier & Joseph Hirschberg - 93-97 Of Course We Can Bootstrap DEA Scores! But Does It Mean Anything? Logic Trumps Wishful Thinking
by Léopold Simar & Paul Wilson
November 1998, Volume 10, Issue 3
- 235-250 Non-Parametric Estimation of Technical Progress
by Kevin Fox - 251-270 Tests of Representative Firm Models: Results for German Manufacturing Industries
by Bertrand Koebel - 271-288 Efficiency and Technological Change in the U.S. Brewing Industry
by Joe Kerkvliet & William Nebesky & Carol Tremblay & Victor Tremblay - 289-304 Productivity Measurement from a Reference Technology: A Distance Function Approach
by David Lambert - 305-311 Cost-Optimal Scale of Child Care Institutions
by Vidar Ringstad & Knut Loyland
October 1998, Volume 10, Issue 2
- 131-152 Comparison of Frontier Efficiency Methods: An Application to the U.S. Life Insurance Industry
by J. Cummins & Hongmin Zi - 153-175 A Cost Indirect Evaluation of Productivity Change in UK Universities
by J. Glass & Donal McKillop & Gary O'Rourke - 177-198 Hierarchies and Groups in DEA
by Wade Cook & Dan Chai & John Doyle & Rodney Green - 199-223 The Workweek of Capital and Capital Utilization in Manufacturing
by J. Beaulieu & Joe Mattey
July 1998, Volume 10, Issue 1
- 7-20 A Quasi-Malmquist Productivity Index
by E. Grifell-Tatjé & C. Lovell & J. Pastor - 21-34 The Rise and Fall of Slacks: Comments on Quasi-Malmquist Productivity Indices
by Finn Førsund - 35-46 Estimating Radial Measures of Productivity Growth: Frontier vs Non-Frontier Approaches
by Scott Atkinson & Christopher Cornwell - 47-62 Quantity, Quality, and Efficiency for a Partially Super-Additive Cost Function: Connecticut Public Schools Revisited
by Subhash Ray & Kankana Mukherjee - 63-84 Technology and Cost Efficiency in Universal Banking A “Thick Frontier”-Analysis of the German Banking Industry
by Günter Lang & Peter Welzel - 85-102 A Mathematical Programming Approach for Measuring Technical Efficiency in a Fuzzy Environment
by Konstantinos Triantis & Olivier Girod - 103-117 Numerical Tools for the Bayesian Analysis of Stochastic Frontier Models
by Jacek Osiewalski & Mark Steel
March 1998, Volume 9, Issue 3
- 187-204 The Effect of Sample Size on the Mean Efficiency in DEA with an Application to Electricity Distribution in Australia, Sweden and New Zealand
by Yun Zhang & Robert Bartels - 205-232 Marginal Rates and Two-dimensional Level Curves in DEA
by Dan Rosen & Claire Schaffnit & Joseph Paradi - 233-247 Regulation and Productivity
by Charles Dufour & Paul Lanoie & Michel Patry - 249-278 A Simulation Study of Joint Uses of Data Envelopment Analysis and Statistical Regressions for Production Function Estimation and Efficiency Evaluation
by Indranil Bardhan & William Cooper & Subal Kumbhakar - 279-281 The Most Influential DEA Publications: A Comment on Seiford
by Nikias Sarafoglou
March 1998, Volume 9, Issue 2
- 103-111 On the Functional Form of an Efficiency Index
by Jens Hougaard & Hans Keiding - 113-132 An Assessment of the Performance of Indian State-Owned Enterprises
by Gautam Ahuja & Sumit Majumdar - 133-143 A Note on the Importance of Testing for Regularities for Estimated Flexible Functional Forms
by Kjell Salvanes & Sigve Tjøtta - 145-160 Characterizing Managerial Skill and Technical Efficiency in a Fishery
by James Kirkley & Dale Squires & Ivar Strand - 161-176 Another Approach to Data Envelopment Analysis in Noisy Environments: DEA+
by Dieter Gstach
January 1998, Volume 9, Issue 1
- 5-34 Productivity Dynamics: U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1972–1986
by Eric Bartelsman & Phoebus Dhrymes - 35-51 The Relationship Between Stock Market Returns and Technical Efficiency Innovations: Evidence from the US Airline Industry
by Ila Alam & Robin Sickles - 53-79 Chance Constrained Programming Formulations for Stochastic Characterizations of Efficiency and Dominance in DEA
by William Cooper & Zhimin Huang & Vedran Lelas & Susan Li & Ole Olesen - 81-94 Some Remarks on Modified FDH
by Tom Puyenbroeck
November 1997, Volume 8, Issue 4
- 323-324 Guest Editors' Introduction
by George Battese & Tim Coelli - 325-359 Causal Influences on Productivity Performance 1820–1992: A Global Perspective
by Angus Maddison - 361-378 International Comparisons of Australia's Infrastructure Performance
by Denis Lawrence & John Houghton & Anna George - 379-394 Technical Inefficiency Effects Among Paddy Farmers in the Villages of the ‘Office du Niger’, Mali, West Africa
by Martine Audibert - 395-414 Functional Forms of Stochastic Frontier Production Functions and Models for Technical Inefficiency Effects: A Comparative Study for Wheat Farmers in Pakistan
by George Battese & Sumiter Broca - 415-430 Performance Measurement in Government Service Provision: The Case of Police Services in New South Wales
by Roger Carrington & Nara Puthucheary & Deirdre Rose & Suthathip Yaisawarng - 431-446 Estimating Technological Change Using a Stochastic Frontier Production Function Framework: Evidence from U.S. Firm-Level Data
by Rajeev Dhawan & Geoffrey Gerdes - 447-459 Productive Efficiency of the Swine Industry in Hawaii: Stochastic Frontier vs. Data Envelopment Analysis
by Khem Sharma & Pingsun Leung & Halina Zaleski - 461-475 Technical Change and Efficiency in Turkish Manufacturing Industries
by Erol Taymaz & Gülin Saatci
August 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3
- 239-246 On the Consistency of Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Monotone and Concave Production Frontiers
by Bharat Sarath & Ajay Maindiratta - 247-267 The Structure of Production in the Norwegian Fish-Processing Industry: An Empirical Multi-Output Cost Analysis Using a Hybrid Translog Functional Form
by Anders Toft & Trond Bjørndal - 269-280 A Stochastic Frontier Production Function with Flexible Risk Properties
by G. Battese & A. Rambaldi & G. Wan - 281-292 Scale Efficiency in Canadian Trust Companies
by Jon Breslaw & James McIntosh - 293-310 Sources of Sectoral Growth in an Economy Wide Context: The Case of U.S. Agriculture
by Munisamy Gopinath & Terry Roe
May 1997, Volume 8, Issue 2
- 127-149 Towards a General Managerial Framework for Performance Measurement: A Comprehensive Highway Maintenance Application
by Paul Rouse & Martin Putterill & David Ryan - 151-165 Weak Axiom of Cost Dominance: A Nonparametric Test of Cost Efficiency Without Input Quantity Data
by Subhash Ray - 167-182 Pitfalls of Normal-Gamma Stochastic Frontier Models
by Christian Ritter & Léopold Simar - 183-197 Linear Programming Models for the Measurement of Environmental Performance of Firms—Concepts and Empirical Results
by Daniel Tyteca - 199-213 Manorial Efficiency in Domesday England
by John McDonald - 215-230 On the Role of Weight Restrictions in Data Envelopment Analysis
by Francisco Pedraja-Chaparro & Javier Salinas-Jimenez & Peter Smith
March 1997, Volume 8, Issue 1
- 5-18 On the Technically Efficient Organization of an Industry: A Study of U.S. Airlines
by Subhash Ray & Xiaowen Hu - 19-33 Bootstrapping Confidence Intervals for Linear Programming Efficiency Scores: With an Illustration Using Italian Banking Data
by Gary Ferrier & Joseph Hirschberg - 35-52 Decomposition of Technological Change and Factor Bias in Indian Power Sector: An Unbalanced Panel Data Approach
by Anjana Bhattacharyya & Arunava Bhattacharyya & Krishna Mitra - 53-69 Business Sector Production in the Short and Long Run in Israel
by Michael Beenstock - 71-93 A General Method of Deriving the Inefficiencies of Banks from a Profit Function
by Jalal Akhavein & P. Swamy & Stephen Taubman & Rao Singamsetti - 95-110 A Graph-Type Extension of Farrell Technical Efficiency Measure
by W. Briec
June 1993, Volume 4, Issue 1
- 9-34 Cost and technical change: Effects from bank deregulation
by David Humphrey - 35-50 Economies of scale and scope in French commercial banking industry
by Michel Dietsch - 51-72 Economies of scale and scope in French banking and savings institutions
by Ugur Muldur & Mohamed Sassenou - 73-76 Comments on “Economies of scale and scope in French banking and savings institutions” by Ugur Muldur and Mohamed Sassenou
by Frank Wykoff - 77-93 Productive performance of the French insurance industry
by F. Fecher & D. Kessler & S. Perelman & P. Pestieau - 95-113 Productivity and computers in Canadian banking
by Darrell Parsons & Calvin Gotlieb & Michael Denny - 115-125 Efficiency and productivity growth comparisons of European and U.S. Air carriers: A first look at the data
by David Good & M. Nadiri & Lars-Hendrik Röller & Robin Sickles - 127-144 Cost effects of mergers and deregulation in the U.S. Rail industry
by Ernst Berndt & Ann Friedlaender & Judy Chiang & Christopher Vellturo - 145-163 Provision of child care: Cost functions for profit-making and not-for-profit day care centers
by Swati Mukerjee & Ann Witte - 165-182 Efficiency, quality, and social externalities in the provision of day care: Comparisons of nonprofit and for-profit firms
by Anne Preston - 183-210 On FDH efficiency analysis: Some methodological issues and applications to retail banking, courts, and urban transit
by Henry Tulkens - 211-234 A look at productivity at the firm level in eight French service industries
by Jacques Mairesse & Elizabeth Kremp
March 1989, Volume 1, Issue 1
- 5-19 Measuring labor cost for productivity comparison
by Peter Chinloy - 21-42 Modeling technical progress and total factor productivity: A plant level example
by Edward Kokkelenberg & Sang Nguyen