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Journal of Productivity Analysis
2005 - 2012
Edited by Robin C. Sickles
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Volume 37, issue 2 , 2012
Rates of return to public agricultural research in 48 US states pp. 95-113
Alejandro Plastina and Lilyan Fulginiti
The examination of pseudo-allocative and pseudo-overall efficiencies in DEA using shadow prices pp. 115-123
Joseph Paradi and Fai Tam
Corporate R&D and firm efficiency: evidence from Europe’s top R&D investors pp. 125-140
Subal Kumbhakar , Raquel Ortega-Argiles , Lesley Potters , Marco Vivarelli and Peter Voigt
On the cost-reducing effects of embodied technical progress: a panel study of the steel industry in Japan pp. 141-153
Shuzo Ueda and Kazuo Ogawa
Explaining firms efficiency in the Ivorian manufacturing sector: a robust nonparametric approach pp. 155-169
Nolwenn Roudaut and Anne Vanhems
Efficiency and technological change at US research universities pp. 171-186
Jeremy Foltz , Bradford Barham , Jean-Paul Chavas and Kwansoo Kim
The need for speed: impacts of internet connectivity on firm productivity pp. 187-201
Arthur Grimes , Cleo Ren and Philip Stevens
Volume 37, issue 1 , 2012
Revolution, evolution, or status quo? Guidelines for efficiency measurement in health care pp. 1-5
Bruce Hollingsworth
Adjustment and unobserved heterogeneity in dynamic stochastic frontier models pp. 7-16
Grigorios Emvalomatis
A dual measure of correlation between the Solow residual and output growth pp. 17-25
Dandan Liu , Rui Li and Jijun Tan
Estimation of cost inefficiency in panel data models with firm specific and sub-company specific effects pp. 27-40
Andrew Smith and Phill Wheat
A micro-econometric analysis of the role of R&D spillovers using a nonlinear translog specification pp. 41-58
Paola Cardamone
Capital use intensity and productivity biases pp. 59-71
Matthew Andersen , Julian M. Alston and Philip Pardey
Efficiency of the Indian leather firms: some results obtained using the two conventional methods pp. 73-93
Anup Bhandari and Pradip Maiti
Volume 36, issue 3 , 2011
Corporate social responsibility and firm efficiency: a latent class stochastic frontier analysis pp. 231-246
Leonardo Becchetti and Giovanni Trovato
Consolidation in the European banking industry: how effective is it? pp. 247-261
Ana Lozano-Vivas , Subal C. Kumbhakar , Meryem Fethi and Mohamed Shaban
Assessing bankruptcy prediction models via information content of technical inefficiency pp. 263-273
Ruey-Ching Hwang , Jhao-Siang Siao , Huimin Chung and C. Chu
Bayesian clustering of distributions in stochastic frontier analysis pp. 275-283
Jim Edward Griffin
Benchmarking and industry performance pp. 285-292
Thijs ten Raa
Multifactor productivity and its determinants: an empirical analysis for Mexican manufacturing pp. 293-308
Héctor Salgado Banda and Lorenzo Ernesto Bernal-Verdugo
Volume 36, issue 2 , 2011
Analysing the lobby-effect of port competitiveness’ determinants: a stochastic frontier approach pp. 113-123
Elvira Haezendonck , Julien van den Broeck and Tim Jans
The R&D and productivity relationship of Korean listed firms pp. 125-142
Almas Heshmati and Hyesung Kim
Properties of inefficiency indexes on 〈input, output〉 space pp. 143-156
R. Russell and William Emery Schworm
Introduction to the symposium of presentations from the Plenary Sessions of the 2010 North American Productivity Workshop pp. 157-158
C. Knox Lovell and Robin C. Sickles
Information technology and U.S. productivity growth: evidence from a prototype industry production account pp. 159-175
Dale Jorgenson , Mun Sing Ho and Jon Samuels
Measuring productivity in the public sector: some conceptual problems pp. 177-191
Walter Erwin Diewert
History lessons pp. 193-200
W. Cooper and C. Knox Lovell
One-step and two-step estimation in SFA models pp. 201-203
Peter Schmidt
Two-stage DEA: caveat emptor pp. 205-218
Leopold Simar and Paul W. Wilson
One-stage estimation of the effects of operational conditions and practices on productive performance: asymptotically normal and efficient, root-n consistent StoNEZD method pp. 219-230
Andrew L. Johnson and Timo Kuosmanen
Volume 36, issue 1 , 2011
Stochastic FDH/DEA estimators for frontier analysis pp. 1-20
Leopold Simar and Valentin Zelenyuk
Parametric decomposition of the input-oriented Malmquist productivity index: with an application to Greek aquaculture pp. 21-31
Christos Pantzios , Giannis Karagiannis and Vangelis Tzouvelekas
Inference by the m out of n bootstrap in nonparametric frontier models pp. 33-53
Leopold Simar and Paul W. Wilson
Innovation and export activities in the German mechanical engineering sector: an application of testing restrictions in production analysis pp. 55-69
Torben Schubert and Leopold Simar
The Solow residual, Domar aggregation, and inefficiency: a synthesis of TFP measures pp. 71-77
Thijs ten Raa and Victoria Shestalova
Elasticities of substitution and complementarity pp. 79-89
David Ian Stern
Public infrastructure as a determinant of productive performance in China pp. 91-111
Wim P. M. Vijverberg , Feng-Cheng Fu and Chu-Ping Vijverberg
Volume 35, issue 3 , 2011
Costly external finance, reallocation, and aggregate productivity pp. 181-195
Shuyun Li
A cross-country comparison of productivity growth using the generalised metafrontier Malmquist productivity index: with application to banking industries in Taiwan and China pp. 197-212
Ku-Hsieh Chen and Hao-Yen Yang
Big and beautiful? On non-parametrically measuring scale economies in non-convex technologies pp. 213-226
Kristof De Witte and Rui Cunha Marques
Public utility planning and cost efficiency in a decentralized regulation context: the case of the Italian integrated water service pp. 227-242
Graziano Abrate , Fabrizio Erbetta and Giovanni Fraquelli
Measuring efficiency under fixed proportion technologies pp. 243-262
Darold Barnum and John Gleason
A note on testing for complementarity and substitutability in the case of multiple practices pp. 263-269
Martin Anthony Carree , Boris Lokshin and Rene Belderbos
Volume 35, issue 2 , 2011
BAM: a bounded adjusted measure of efficiency for use with bounded additive models pp. 85-94
William Cooper , Jesús Pastor , Fernando Borras , Juan Aparicio and Diego Pastor
Goodness of fit tests in stochastic frontier models pp. 95-118
Wei Siang Wang , Christine Elaine Amsler and Peter Schmidt
A multi-product cost function for physician private practices pp. 119-128
Timothy Gunning and Robin C. Sickles
Semiparametric deconvolution with unknown error variance pp. 129-141
William Clinton Horrace and Christopher Parmeter
Measuring technical and allocative efficiencies for banks in the transition countries using the Fourier flexible cost function pp. 143-157
Tai-Hsin Huang , Chung-Hua Shen , Kuan-Chen Chen and Shen-Ju Tseng
Sector fragmentation and aggregation of service provision in the water industry pp. 159-169
Maria Corton
The fundraising efficiency in U.S. non-profit art organizations: an application of a Bayesian estimation approach using the stochastic frontier production model pp. 171-180
Seongho Song and David Yi
Volume 35, issue 1 , 2011
Introduction pp. 1-3
Harold Fried and Robert Simmons
Productivity drivers and market dynamics in the Spanish first division football league pp. 5-13
Carlos Pestana Barros and Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio
Temporal variations in technical efficiency: evidence from German soccer pp. 15-24
Bernd Frick and Young Hoon Lee
From college to the pros: predicting the NBA amateur player draft pp. 25-35
David J. Berri , Stacey Brook and Aju J. Fenn
Catching a draft: on the process of selecting quarterbacks in the National Football League amateur draft pp. 37-49
David J. Berri and Rob Simmons
Is the small-ball strategy effective in winning games? A stochastic frontier production approach pp. 51-59
Young Hoon Lee
Pay, productivity and aging in Major League Baseball pp. 61-74
Jahn Hakes and Chad S. Turner
The impact of age on the ability to perform under pressure: golfers on the PGA tour pp. 75-84
Harold Fried and Loren W. Tauer