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Working Papers

2009

1. Performance measures for hierarchical organizations: Frontier analysis as a decision support tool
   Working Papers, IESEG School of Management
2. The Size and Service Offering Efficiencies of U.S. Hospitals
   Working Papers, IESEG School of Management

1999

3. Mutual Funds and Institutional Investments: What is the Most Efficient Way to Set Up Individual Accounts in a Social Security System?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
   Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (1999) View citations (5)
   See also Chapter (2000)
4. The informativeness of stochastic frontier and programming frontier efficiency scores: Cost efficiency and other measures of bank holding company performance
   Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (23)

1998

5. Can We Bootstrap DEA Scores?
   Department of Economics - Working Papers Series, The University of Melbourne View citations (3)

1997

6. Consistency conditions for regulatory analysis of financial institutions: a comparison of frontier efficiency methods
   Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) View citations (24)
   Also in Financial Services working paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (1997) View citations (7)
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Economics and Business (1998)

1996

7. Scale economies, cost efficiencies, and technological change in Federal Reserve payments
   Financial Services working paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

1994

8. Radial and Nonradial Technical Efficiency Measures on DEA Reference Technology: A Comparison Using US Banking Data
   Discussion Papers (REL - Recherches Economiques de Louvain), Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES) View citations (10)
   Also in CORE Discussion Papers, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) (1994) View citations (17)

Journal Articles

2010

1. The impact of CON regulation on hospital efficiency
   Health Care Management Science, 2010, 13, (1), 84-100 View citations (1)

2009

2. Hospital capacity in large urban areas: is there enough in times of need?
   Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2009, 32, (2), 103-117

2006

3. Analysis of uncompensated hospital care using a DEA model of output congestion
   Health Care Management Science, 2006, 9, (2), 181-188 View citations (7)
4. The economic benefit of goal congruence and implications for management control systems
   Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 2006, 25, (3), 265-298 View citations (1)

2004

5. Comparing French and US hospital technologies: a directional input distance function approach
   Applied Economics, 2004, 36, (10), 1065-1081 View citations (5)

2003

6. Structure, performance and conduct in the mutual fund industry: some implications for banks
   Proceedings, 2003, (May), 493-508

1998

7. Consistency Conditions for Regulatory Analysis of Financial Institutions: A Comparison of Frontier Efficiency Methods
   Journal of Economics and Business, 1998, 50, (2), 85-114 View citations (118)
   See also Working Paper (1997)
8. Static and Dynamic Productivity among Yugoslav Enterprises: Components and Correlates
   Journal of Comparative Economics, 1998, 26, (4), 805-821 View citations (5)
9. The choice of a technical efficiency measure on the free disposal hull reference technology: A comparison using US banking data
   European Journal of Operational Research, 1998, 105, (3), 427-446 View citations (6)
10. The efficiency of TVA power distributors
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 1998, 19, (6), 365-376 View citations (3)

1996

11. Best-practice technology in an adverse environment: The case of Indian sugar, 1981-1986
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1996, 29, (3), 493-522
12. Scale Economies, Cost Efficiencies, and Technological Change in Federal Reserve Payments Processing
    Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 1996, 28, (4), 1004-39 View citations (16)
    Also in Proceedings, 1996, 1004-1044 (1996) View citations (25)

1995

13. A Switching Frontier Model for Imperfect Sample Separation Information: With an Application to Constrained Labor Supply
    International Economic Review, 1995, 36, (2), 503-29 View citations (9)
14. Organizational Form and Efficiency: Evidence from Indian Sugar Manufacturing
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1995, 21, (1), 29-53 View citations (1)
15. The technical efficiency of vacuum-pan sugar industry of India: An application of a stochastic frontier production function using panel data
    European Journal of Operational Research, 1995, 80, (3), 639-653 View citations (8)

1994

16. Global optimization of statistical functions with simulated annealing
    Journal of Econometrics, 1994, 60, (1-2), 65-99 View citations (165)

1993

17. Discussants' comments on Pi and Timme, Grabowski et al. and Fare and Primont
    Journal of Banking & Finance, 1993, 17, (2-3), 545-549
18. Economies of diversification in the banking industry: A frontier approach
    Journal of Monetary Economics, 1993, 31, (2), 229-249 View citations (32)

1992

19. Climate Control Efficiency
    The Energy Journal, 1992, Volume 13, (Number 1), 37-54 View citations (3)
20. Simulated Annealing: An Initial Application in Econometrics
    Computer Science in Economics & Management, 1992, 5, (2), 133-46 View citations (7)

1991

21. THE PRODUCTIVE EFFICIENCY OF US MILK PROCESSING CO-OPERATIVES
    Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1991, 42, (2), 161-173 View citations (8)

1990

22. Measuring cost efficiency in banking: Econometric and linear programming evidence
    Journal of Econometrics, 1990, 46, (1-2), 229-245 View citations (191)

Chapters

2000

1. Mutual Funds and Institutional Investments -- What Is the Most Efficient Way to Set Up Individual Accounts in a Social Security System?
   A chapter in Administrative Aspects of Investment-Based Social Security Reform, 2000, pp 77-136 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper (1999)

Software Items

1992

1. SIMANN: FORTRAN module to perform Global Optimization of Statistical Functions with Simulated Annealing
   Computational Economics Software Archive, Kluwer Academic Publishers

Undated

2. Programme to "Global Optimization of Statistical Functions with Simulated Annealing"
   Fortran codes