Journal of Productivity Analysis

2005 - 2009

Edited by Robin C. Sickles

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Non-jointness and scope economies in the multiproduct symmetric generalized McFadden cost function pp. 161-171: Kenneth Stewart
Estimating heterogeneous capacity and capacity utilization in a multi-species fishery pp. 173-189: Ronald Felthoven, William C. Horrace and Kurt Schnier
Price cap regulation and the ratchet effect: a generalized index approach pp. 191-201: Anna Bottasso and Maurizio Conti
Technical efficiency, specialization and ownership form: evidences from a pooling of Italian hospitals pp. 203-216: Silvio Daidone and Francesco D’Amico
Imposing regional monotonicity on translog stochastic production frontiers with a simple three-step procedure pp. 217-229: Arne Henningsen and Christian Henning

Disaggregate productivity comparisons: sectoral convergence in OECD countries pp. 63-79: Johannes Van Biesebroeck
Testing differences in efficiency of regions within a country: the case of Ukraine pp. 81-102: Pavlo Demchuk and Valentin Zelenyuk
Hospital capacity in large urban areas: is there enough in times of need? pp. 103-117: Gary Ferrier, Hervé LELEU and Vivian Valdmanis
The effects of geographic expansion on the productivity of Spanish savings banks pp. 119-143: Manuel Illueca, José M. Pastor and Emili Tortosa-Ausina
Efficiency of insurance firms with endogenous risk management and financial intermediation activities pp. 145-159: J. Cummins, Georges Dionne, Robert Gagné and A. Nouira

The aggregation of capital over vintages in a model of embodied technical progress pp. 1-19: Walter Erwin Diewert
Production technologies based on combined proportionality assumptions pp. 21-26: Victor Podinovski
Target and technical efficiency in DEA: controlling for environmental characteristics pp. 27-40: O. Olesen and N. Petersen
The effect of marketing regulations on efficiency: LeChatelier versus coordination effects pp. 41-54: Natsuko Iwasaki and Victor Tremblay
Economic assumptions and choice of functional forms: comparison of top down and bottom up approaches pp. 55-62: Hang Ryu

Exact decomposition of the Fisher ideal total factor productivity index pp. 137-150: Timo Kuosmanen and Timo Sipiläinen
Joint estimation of technology choice and technical efficiency: an application to organic and conventional dairy farming pp. 151-161: Subal C. Kumbhakar, Efthymios Tsionas and Timo Sipiläinen
A stochastic frontier analysis to estimate the relative efficiency of Spanish airports pp. 163-176: Juan Martín, Concepción Román and Augusto Voltes-Dorta
Output and productivity growth in the education sector: comparisons for the US and UK pp. 177-194: Mary O’Mahony and Philip Andrew Stevens
Regional variation in productivity: a study of the Danish economy pp. 195-212: Arnab Bhattacharjee, Eduardo Castro and Chris Jensen-Butler

Axiomatic foundations of efficiency measurement on data-generated technologies pp. 77-86: R. Russell and William Schworm
Measuring residential energy efficiency improvements with DEA pp. 87-94: Peter Grösche
Bias of distance functions estimates and Primont and Primont’s homotheticity test pp. 95-100: Laurent Cavaignac
Spatial stochastic frontier models: accounting for unobserved local determinants of inefficiency pp. 101-112: Alexandra Schmidt, Ajax Moreira, Steven Helfand and Thais Fonseca
The efficiency of Spanish arable crop organic farms, a local maximum likelihood approach pp. 113-124: Teresa Serra and Barry Goodwin
Reallocation and productivity growth in Japan: revisiting the lost decade of the 1990s pp. 125-136: Naomi Griffin and Kazuhiko Odaki

The effects of match uncertainty and bargaining on labor market outcomes: evidence from firm and worker specific estimates pp. 1-14: Subal C. Kumbhakar and Christopher Parmeter
Matching in local labor markets: a stochastic frontier approach pp. 15-26: Sanna-Mari Hynninen
Non-maximizing output behavior for firms with a cost-constrained technology pp. 27-32: Jos Blank
Model selection in stochastic frontier analysis with an application to maize production in Kenya pp. 33-46: Yanyan Liu and Robert Myers
Trade, wages, and the specific factors model: empirical evidence from manufacturing industries in Ghana pp. 47-55: Gokhan Akay
Decomposing productivity patterns in a conditional convergence framework pp. 57-75: Rosa Bernardini Papalia and Silvia Bertarelli

A “calculus” for data envelopment analysis pp. 169-175: Robert Chambers and Rolf Färe
The dynamics of efficiency and productivity growth in U.S. electric utilities pp. 177-190: Supawat Rungsuriyawiboon and Spiro Stefanou
Debreu’s coefficient of resource utilization, the Solow residual, and TFP: the connection by Leontief preferences pp. 191-199: Thijs ten Raa
Trade and product innovations as sources for productivity increases: an empirical analysis pp. 201-211: Frank A.G. Den Butter, Jan Möhlmann and Paul Wit
Efficient frontier estimation: a maximum entropy approach pp. 213-221: Randall Campbell, Kevin Rogers and Jon Rezek
Parametric estimation of inefficiency in cargo handling in Spanish ports pp. 223-232: Juan Díaz-Hernández, Eduardo Martínez-Budría and Sergio Jara-Diaz

Efficiency vectors, efficiency and performance measures: new methods for ranking efficient organizational units pp. 99-106: Jens Müller
Stochastic productivity measurement pp. 107-120: Robert Chambers
Environmental regulation and productivity: testing the porter hypothesis pp. 121-128: Paul Lanoie, Michel Patry and Richard Lajeunesse
What is the environmental performance of firms overseas? An empirical investigation of the global gold mining industry pp. 129-143: Gary Koop and Lise Tole
Optimal geographic diversification and firm performance: evidence from the U.K pp. 145-154: Nigel L. Driffield, Jun Du and Sourafel Girma
The temporal variation of cost-efficiency in Switzerland’s hospitals: an application of mixed models pp. 155-168: Mehdi Farsi

Applied production analysis unveiled in open peer review: introductory remarks pp. 1-6: Spiro Stefanou and Kristiaan H. J. Kerstens
U.S. productivity in agriculture and R&D pp. 7-12: R. Färe, S. Grosskopf and D. Margaritis
Public inputs and dynamic producer behavior: endogenous growth in U.S. agriculture pp. 13-28: Alejandro Onofri and Lilyan Fulginiti
Price-induced technical progress in 80 years of US agriculture pp. 29-51: Quirino Paris
Three approaches to modeling a productive enterprise pp. 53-57: Steve Buccola
Commentary pp. 59-60: Antonio M. Alvarez
Commentary pp. 61-61: Bert Balk
Commentary pp. 63-65: Finn R. Førsund
Commentary pp. 67-68: Giannis Karagiannis
Commentary pp. 69-70: Colin Thirtle
Commentary pp. 71-75: E. Tsionas
Rejoinder pp. 77-79: R. Färe, S. Grosskopf and D. Margaritis
Rejoinder pp. 81-85: A. Onofri and Lilyan Fulginiti
Rejoinder pp. 87-88: Quirino Paris