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Working Papers

2019

1. The Decompositions of Cost Variation
   ERIM Report Series Research in Management, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam

2018

2. A Total Factor Productivity Toolbox for MATLAB
   ERIM Report Series Research in Management, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam View citations (1)
3. The Many Decompositions of Total Factor Productivity Change
   ERIM Report Series Research in Management, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam View citations (5)

2017

4. An Evaluation of Cross-Efficiency Methods, Applied to Measuring Warehouse Performance
   ERIM Report Series Research in Management, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam View citations (6)

2015

5. On Measuring Regional or Global Growth and Inflation
   Discussion Papers Series, University of Queensland, School of Economics

2011

6. Dissecting Aggregate Output and Labour Productivity Change
   ERIM Report Series Research in Management, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Dissecting aggregate output and labour productivity change, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer (2014) View citations (12) (2014)

2009

7. Introduction to Price and Productivity Measurement for Housing
   Economics working papers, Vancouver School of Economics View citations (4)
   Also in Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (2009) View citations (3)

2008

8. Measuring Productivity Change without Neoclassical Assumptions: A Conceptual Analysis
   ERIM Report Series Research in Management, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam View citations (12)
   Also in CEPA Working Papers Series, University of Queensland, School of Economics (2007) View citations (7)

2001

9. Aggregation Methods in International Comparisons
   ERIM Report Series Research in Management, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam View citations (12)
10. The Residual: On Monitoring and Benchmarking Firms, Industries, and Economies with respect to Productivity
    ERIM Inaugural Address Series Research in Management, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. View citations (24)
    See also Journal Article The Residual: On Monitoring and Benchmarking Firms, Industries, and Economies with Respect to Productivity, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer (2003) View citations (53) (2003)

Journal Articles

2022

1. MACRO-ECONOMIC MEASURES FOR A GLOBALIZED WORLD: GLOBAL GROWTH AND INFLATION
   Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2022, 26, (2), 314-360

2021

2. An evaluation of cross-efficiency methods: With an application to warehouse performance
   Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2021, 406, (C) View citations (6)
3. Productivity Measurement with Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis: A Review Article on Measurement of Productivity and Efficiency: Theory and Practice
   International Productivity Monitor, 2021, 40, 134-139 View citations (1)

2020

4. A novel decomposition of aggregate total factor productivity change
   Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2020, 53, (1), 95-105 View citations (1)
5. Symmetric decompositions of cost variation
   European Journal of Operational Research, 2020, 285, (3), 1189-1198 View citations (5)

2019

6. Consistency Issues in the Construction of Annual and Quarterly Productivity Indices
   International Productivity Monitor, 2019, 37, 144-155

2018

7. Profit-oriented productivity change: A comment
   Omega, 2018, 78, (C), 176-178 View citations (5)

2016

8. Dissecting aggregate output and labour productivity change: a postscript on the role of relative prices
   Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2016, 45, (1), 117-119 View citations (4)
9. Various Approaches to the Aggregation of Economic Productivity Indices
   Pacific Economic Review, 2016, 21, (4), 445-463 View citations (7)

2015

10. Measuring and relating aggregate and subaggregate total factor productivity change without neoclassical assumptions
    Statistica Neerlandica, 2015, 69, (1), 21-48 View citations (5)
11. On directional scale elasticities
    Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2015, 43, (1), 99-104 View citations (6)

2014

12. Dissecting aggregate output and labour productivity change
    Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2014, 42, (1), 35-43 View citations (12)
    See also Working Paper Dissecting Aggregate Output and Labour Productivity Change, ERIM Report Series Research in Management (2011) View citations (1) (2011)

2012

13. Imputing output prices for non-market production units: a comment
    Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2012, 37, (3), 231-232

2011

14. MEASURING AND DECOMPOSING CAPITAL INPUT COST
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57, (3), 490-512 View citations (4)

2010

15. ,Price index concepts and measurement.W. Erwin Diewert, John S. Greenlees and Charles R. Hulten, Editors, Studies in income and wealth, National Bureau of Economic Research vol. 70, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London (2009)
    International Review of Economics & Finance, 2010, 19, (4), 789-790
16. AN ASSUMPTION‐FREE FRAMEWORK FOR MEASURING PRODUCTIVITY CHANGE
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2010, 56, (s1), S224-S256 View citations (19)
17. Lowe and Cobb-Douglas Consumer Price Indices and their Substitution Bias
    Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2010, 230, (6), 726-740 View citations (2)

2009

18. ON THE RELATION BETWEEN GROSS OUTPUT– AND VALUE ADDED–BASED PRODUCTIVITY MEASURES: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DOMAR FACTOR
    Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2009, 13, (S2), 241-267 View citations (14)

2008

19. Commentary
    Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2008, 30, (1), 61-61
20. Exact relations between Luenberger productivity indicators and Malmquist productivity indexes
    Economic Theory, 2008, 35, (1), 187-190 View citations (25)
21. Notes on: “The Generalised Index Numbers”
    JeSP, 2008, 1, (1), 11

2005

22. Divisia price and quantity indices: 80 years after
    Statistica Neerlandica, 2005, 59, (2), 119-158 View citations (37)

2004

23. Decompositions of Fisher indexes
    Economics Letters, 2004, 82, (1), 107-113 View citations (25)

2003

24. The Residual: On Monitoring and Benchmarking Firms, Industries, and Economies with Respect to Productivity
    Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2003, 20, (1), 5-47 View citations (53)
    See also Working Paper The Residual: On Monitoring and Benchmarking Firms, Industries, and Economies with respect to Productivity, ERIM Inaugural Address Series Research in Management (2001) View citations (24) (2001)
25. The theory of economic price and quantity indicators
    Economic Theory, 2003, 23, (1), 149-164 View citations (9)

2001

26. Scale Efficiency and Productivity Change
    Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2001, 15, (3), 159-183 View citations (154)

2000

27. Book reviews
    Journal of Economics, 2000, 72, (3), 309-324

1999

28. Book reviews
    Journal of Economics, 1999, 69, (1), 96-111

1997

29. The decomposition of cost efficiency and the canonical form of cost function and cost share equations
    Economics Letters, 1997, 55, (1), 45-51 View citations (6)

1996

30. CONSISTENCY‐IN‐AGGREGATION AND STUVEL INDICES
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1996, 42, (3), 353-363 View citations (3)

1993

31. Malmquist Productivity Indexes and Fisher Ideal Indexes: Comment
    Economic Journal, 1993, 103, (418), 680-82 View citations (25)

1990

32. Measurement of services in an input-output framework: Kimio Uno, (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1989) pp. xviii+402, ISBN 0-444-70531-7, $109.75/Dfl. 225.00
    European Journal of Political Economy, 1990, 6, (3), 438-439
33. On Calculating Cost-of-Living Index Numbers for Arbitrary Income Levels
    Econometrica, 1990, 58, (1), 75-92 View citations (11)

1989

34. World comparison of incomes, prices and product: J. Salazar-Carrillo and D.S. Prasada Rao, (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1988) pp. x + 298, ISBN 0-444-70459-0, $86.75/Dfl. 165.00
    European Journal of Political Economy, 1989, 5, (2-3), 416-419

1986

35. The behaviour of the cost of living at different levels of real income: A correction
    Economics Letters, 1986, 20, (3), 301-302

1985

36. Inflation variability and relative-price change variability in The Netherlands 1951-1981
    Economics Letters, 1985, 19, (1), 27-30 View citations (1)

1983

37. Does there exist a relation between inflation and relative price-change variability?: The effect of the aggregation level
    Economics Letters, 1983, 13, (2-3), 173-180 View citations (9)

1981

38. Second Thoughts on Wald's Cost-of-Living Index and Frisch's Double Expenditure Method
    Econometrica, 1981, 49, (6), 1553-58 View citations (1)

1978

39. Inflation and its variability: Some comments and the Dutch case
    Economics Letters, 1978, 1, (4), 357-360 View citations (3)

Books

2021

1. Productivity
   Contributions to Economics, Springer

2012

2. Price and Quantity Index Numbers
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (29)
   Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (2008) View citations (133)

Chapters

2022

1. Symmetric Decompositions of Aggregate Output and Labour Productivity Growth: On Levels, (Non-)Additivity, and Misallocation
   Springer

2021

2. A Framework Without Assumptions
   Springer
3. Annual and Quarterly Measures
   Springer
4. Capital Input Cost
   Springer
5. Connecting the Two Approaches
   Springer
6. Dynamics: The Bottom-Up Approach
   Springer
7. Introduction
   Springer
8. The Components of Total Factor Productivity Change
   Springer View citations (1)
9. The Top-Down Approach 1: Aggregate Output and Simple Labour Productivity Indices
   Springer
10. The Top-Down Approach 2: Aggregate Total Factor Productivity Index
    Springer
11. The Top-Down Approach 3: Aggregate Total Factor Productivity Level
    Springer

2018

12. Aggregate Productivity and Productivity of the Aggregate: Connecting the Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches
    Springer

2016

13. The Dynamics of Productivity Change: A Review of the Bottom-Up Approach
    Springer View citations (9)

2009

14. Aggregation Methods in International Comparisons: an Evaluation
    Chapter 3 in Purchasing Power Parities of Currencies, 2009, pp 59-85

2007

15. Chapter 2 Measuring and Decomposing Productivity Change: The Basics
    A chapter in Evaluating Hospital Policy and Performance: Contributions from Hospital Policy and Productivity Research, 2007, pp 13-32

1996

16. VAN IJZEREN'S METHOD OF INTERNATIONAL PRICE AND VOLUME COMPARISON
    A chapter in International Comparisons of Prices, Output and Productivity, 1996, pp 179-186