Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2026

Current editor(s): William Greene, Chris O'Donnell and Victor Podinovski

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Volume 65, issue 2, 2026

Shape-aware deep learning for models of production pp. 1-16

Zheng Wei, Huiyan Sang, Artem Prokhorov and Yu Ma

Production for wellbeing program: a stochastic meta-frontier perspective with pseudo control groups pp. 1-16

Araceli Ortega-Diaz and Andrea Guerrero-Jimenez

Global- and Biennial Malmquist Indexes with a Location Favourability Decomposition pp. 1-11

Mette Asmild

Assessing technical efficiency: effects on future profits and returns pp. 1-26

Joshua Livnat, Duo Selina Pei and Dan Segal

Benefit of the doubt models: some issues and insights pp. 1-26

Maryam Hasannasab, Dimitris Margaritis and Paul Rouse

Nonparametric spatial frontier models for productivity analysis: evidence from EU regions pp. 1-21

Camilla Mastromarco and Leopold Simar

Unravelling aggregate productivity effects of Bt cotton in china: a regression control approach using cross-country data pp. 1-23

Changxin Yu, Haiyan Deng, Yu Sheng, Yanhong Jin and Ruifa Hu

Digital adoption and cyber security: an analysis of canadian businesses pp. 1-23

Joann Jasiak, Peter MacKenzie and Purevdorj Tuvaandorj

Estimation and inference for aggregate productivity and efficiency measures: brief overview and reminiscences pp. 1-9

Valentin Zelenyuk

A machine learning approach to stochastic frontier modeling pp. 1-12

Levent Kutlu, Xi Mao and Xuelei Sherry Ni

Volume 65, issue 1, 2026

Interpreting profit-related inefficiencies as Euclidean distances in the context of directional distance functions and data envelopment analysis pp. 1-16

Juan Aparicio, Jesús T. Pastor and José L. Zofío

Understanding the slowdown of china’s total factor productivity since 2008 from a supply-side perspective∗ pp. 1-16

Zhan Li and Jinghong He

The role of Spatial dynamics in labor productivity: A regional multifactor partitioning analysis of mexico’s manufacturing sector: 1993-2018 pp. 1-30

Jesús López Cabrera, Miguel Alejandro Flores Segovia and Robin Sickles

Tackling negative externalities in well-being efficiency analysis: accounting for socio-economic and environmental costs pp. 1-24

Gabriella De Bernardo, Gennaro Punzo and Rosalia Castellano

Partial local and global returns to scale in efficiency analysis with different technologies pp. 1-8

Victor V. Podinovski and Grammatoula Papaioannou

Incorporating intermediate outputs into SFA using an equation system approach with application to transport pp. 1-21

Tran Vht, P. Wheat, Stead Ad and Smith Asj

Fintech and bank efficiency: a robust nonparametric approach for Chinese commercial banks pp. 1-21

Jiyuan Zhang, Shirong Zhao and Guangshun Qiao

Measurement error corrected stochastic frontier analysis pp. 1-23

Nicole Adler, Adit Kivel and David Zucker

Flying high or falling short? markup and product differentiation in the U.S. airline industry (2002–2022) pp. 1-18

Emili Grifell-Tatjé and Charles Howell

Growth decomposition and analysis: a comparative study of mauritius and senegal pp. 1-18

Fatou Kiné Thioune

Volume 64, issue 3, 2025

Two-tier stochastic frontier analysis: heterogeneous error distributions and model selection pp. 223-234

Alecos Papadopoulos

A class of generalized autoregressive score panel stochastic frontier models pp. 235-253

Kien Tran and Panayotis Michaelides

Beyond borders: how spillovers and commercial networks shape European productivity pp. 255-303

André Carrascal-Incera, Weilin Liu, Luis Orea and Robin Sickles

On the development of a unified, nonparametric materials balance-based efficiency analysis model and its applications pp. 305-319

Kenneth Løvold Rødseth

The generalized panel data stochastic frontier model: A review and nonparametric estimation pp. 321-339

Christopher F. Parmeter and Subal C. Kumbhakar

Some Remarks on the Occasion of Léopold Simar’s Lifetime Achievement Award pp. 341-347

Paul W. Wilson

Integrating soil natural capital into agricultural total factor productivity analysis pp. 349-361

A. Abad, T. Hien and P. Ravelojaona

An alternative derivation of the van IJzeren weights and some new results for the additive decomposition of Fisher indices pp. 363-377

Rolf Färe and Giannis Karagiannis

Measuring potential gains from mergers: An application of cost sub-additivity to Taiwan Higher Education pp. 379-391

Tsu-tan Fu, Cliff J. Huang and Wei-Hsin Kong

Scale economies in somatic hospitals in Norway pp. 393-404

Sverre Kittelsen, Kjartan S. Anthun, Anders M. Bilet, Halvard S. Jansen, Johanna Lidman, Jon Magnussen and Erik M. Sæther

Production under Physical Constraints: In honor of Finn Førsund pp. 405-409

Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf

Firm exit and entry over the business cycle in Spain pp. 411-437

Manuela Magalhães and Jesús Rodríguez-López

Is infrastructure capital really productive? Nonparametric modeling and data-driven model selection in a cross-sectionally dependent panel framework pp. 439-455

Antonio Musolesi, Giada Andrea Prete and Michel Simioni

Regional differences in Italian school efficiency: A conditional DEA approach pp. 457-491

Giorgia Zotti

Laspeyres-Paasche bounds for productivity index pp. 493-507

Hideyuki Mizobuchi and Valentin Zelenyuk

Latent class models with persistence in regime changes: a distributed lag analysis pp. 509-533

Luis Orea and K Hervé Dakpo

Cross efficiency evaluation in two-stage data envelopment analysis model with dual fairness concerns pp. 535-550

Chen Yingwen, Zhu Zhixi, Zhao Yingying and Zhuang Yahan

Construction of convex three-dimensional sections in DEA models with selective convexity pp. 551-558

Vladimir E. Krivonozhko, Alexandr P. Aphanasyev, Andrey V. Lychev and Pavel D. Khoner

Volume 64, issue 2, 2025

Can digital transformation enhance total factor productivity? Evidence from chinese listed manufacturing firms pp. 113-131

Jie Wu, Xiaoyu Wang and Jacob Wood

Does cluster farming improve efficiency? A case of wheat farmers in Arsi Zone of Oromia Region, Ethiopia pp. 133-144

Zenaye Degefu Agazhi, Melkamu Mada and Mebratu Alemu

Approximate Bayesian computation to estimate persistent and transient efficiency in stochastic frontier panel data models pp. 145-166

Andrés Ramírez–Hassan, Juan David Rengifo–Castro, Miguel Manzur and Estephania Rueda-Ramírez

Finance, productivity, and exports: Theory and firm-level evidence from China pp. 167-187

Yong Ma and Yiqing Jiang

Mismatch matters: education and productivity in laggard and frontier firms pp. 189-208

Ana Beatriz Rocha, Hugo Figueiredo, Carla Sá and Miguel Portela

Public bidding in government procurement - A new methodology for ranking bid proposals using full dimensional efficient facets of DEA frontier pp. 209-222

Marcos Pereira Estellita Lins, Luiz Fernando do Nascimento, José Hernando Dulá, Nilson Trevisan Torres and Angela Cristina M. E. Lins

Volume 64, issue 1, 2025

Measuring productivity in the open economy: Törnqvist perspectives pp. 1-21

Ulrich Kohli

Productivity slowdown and regional productivity heterogeneity pp. 23-41

Maria Tsiapa, Panayiotis Tzeremes and Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

General network production theory for good and bad inputs and outputs pp. 43-60

Harald Dyckhoff

Using stochastic frontier analysis to assess the performance of public service providers in the presence of demand uncertainty pp. 61-79

Hong Ngoc Nguyen and Christopher O’Donnell

Bayesian stochastic frontier models under the skew-normal half-normal settings pp. 81-91

Zheng Wei, S. T. Boris Choy, Tonghui Wang and Xiaonan Zhu

Enhancing Cost Efficiency Estimates with Trade-offs for Improved Reallocation Processes pp. 93-111

Alexander Öttl and Mette Asmild