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Working Papers

2020

1. An expanded decomposition of the Luenberger productivity indicator with an application to the Chinese healthcare sector
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (12)
   Also in Working Papers, IESEG School of Management (2017) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article An expanded decomposition of the Luenberger productivity indicator with an application to the Chinese healthcare sector, Omega, Elsevier (2020) View citations (12) (2020)

2018

2. Direction Selection in Stochastic Directional Distance Functions
   Working Papers, Rice University, Department of Economics
   See also Journal Article Direction selection in stochastic directional distance functions, European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier (2020) View citations (11) (2020)

2017

3. A directional distance function approach for identifying the input/output status of medical residents
   Post-Print, HAL
   Also in Working Papers, IESEG School of Management (2014) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article A directional distance function approach for identifying the input/output status of medical residents, Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals (2018) View citations (3) (2018)

2014

4. Measuring the performance of hierarchical organizations: an application to bank efficiency at the regional and branch levels
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (3)

2013

5. The focus efficiency of U.S. Hospitals
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article The Focus Efficiency of U.S. Hospitals, Atlantic Economic Journal, Springer (2013) View citations (1) (2013)

2012

6. Performance measures for hierarchical organizations: A decision support tool
   Post-Print, HAL

2010

7. The impact of CON regulation on hospital efficiency
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (13)
   See also Journal Article The impact of CON regulation on hospital efficiency, Health Care Management Science, Springer (2010) View citations (14) (2010)

2009

8. Hospital Capacity in Large Urban Areas: Is There Enough in Times of Need?
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (12)
   Also in Post-Print, HAL (2007)
   See also Journal Article Hospital capacity in large urban areas: is there enough in times of need?, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer (2009) View citations (11) (2009)
9. Performance measures for hierarchical organizations: Frontier analysis as a decision support tool
   Working Papers, IESEG School of Management
10. The Size and Service Offering Efficiencies of U.S. Hospitals
    Working Papers, IESEG School of Management View citations (1)

2007

11. Resource utilization in U.S. hospital markets
    Post-Print, HAL
12. Structural Efficiency and the Evaluation of Certificate of Needs Regulations
    Post-Print, HAL

2003

13. Structure, performance and conduct in the mutual fund industry: some implications for banks
    Proceedings, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

1999

14. 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 (9)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (1999) View citations (8)
    See also Chapter Mutual Funds and Institutional Investments: What Is the Most Efficient Way to Set Up Individual Accounts in a Social Security System?, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2000) View citations (2) (2000)
15. The informativeness of stochastic frontier and programming frontier efficiency scores: Cost efficiency and other measures of bank holding company performance
    FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta View citations (45)

1998

16. Can We Bootstrap DEA Scores?
    Department of Economics - Working Papers Series, The University of Melbourne View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Can We Bootstrap DEA Scores?, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer (1999) View citations (9) (1999)

1997

17. Consistency conditions for regulatory analysis of financial institutions: a comparison of frontier efficiency methods
    Financial Services working paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland View citations (14)
    Also in Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) (1997) View citations (24)
    See also Journal Article Consistency Conditions for Regulatory Analysis of Financial Institutions: A Comparison of Frontier Efficiency Methods, Journal of Economics and Business, Elsevier (1998) View citations (345) (1998)

1996

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

1995

19. The choice of a technical efficiency measure on the Free Disposal Hull reference technology: A comparison using US banking data
    SESO Working Papers, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Business and Economics View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article 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, Elsevier (1998) View citations (23) (1998)

1994

20. 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 (20)
    Also in LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) (1994) View citations (21)
    LIDAM Reprints CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) (1994) View citations (17)

Journal Articles

2022

1. Estimating technology characteristics of the U.S. hospital industry using directional distance functions with optimal directions
   Omega, 2022, 113, (C) View citations (2)

2020

2. An expanded decomposition of the Luenberger productivity indicator with an application to the Chinese healthcare sector
   Omega, 2020, 91, (C) View citations (12)
   See also Working Paper An expanded decomposition of the Luenberger productivity indicator with an application to the Chinese healthcare sector, Post-Print (2020) View citations (12) (2020)
3. Direction selection in stochastic directional distance functions
   European Journal of Operational Research, 2020, 280, (1), 351-364 View citations (11)
   See also Working Paper Direction Selection in Stochastic Directional Distance Functions, Working Papers (2018) (2018)

2019

4. Agricultural productivity evolution in China: A generalized decomposition of the Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator
   China Economic Review, 2019, 57, (C) View citations (24)

2018

5. A directional distance function approach for identifying the input/output status of medical residents
   Applied Economics, 2018, 50, (9), 1006-1021 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper A directional distance function approach for identifying the input/output status of medical residents, Post-Print (2017) (2017)

2016

6. Technology Diffusion on the International Trade Network
   Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2016, 18, (2), 291-312 View citations (21)

2014

7. Improving the "usefulness" of stochastic frontier analysis for health care
   Economics and Business Letters, 2014, 3, (1), 27-34 View citations (2)
8. Memoriam to Professor Ralph William “Bill” Pfouts
   Atlantic Economic Journal, 2014, 42, (4), 347-348
9. Predicting retailer orders with POS and order data: The inventory balance effect
   European Journal of Operational Research, 2014, 232, (3), 593-600 View citations (15)

2013

10. Incorporating quality into the measurement of hospital efficiency: a double DEA approach
    Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2013, 40, (3), 337-355 View citations (38)
11. The Focus Efficiency of U.S. Hospitals
    Atlantic Economic Journal, 2013, 41, (3), 241-263 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper The focus efficiency of U.S. Hospitals, Post-Print (2013) View citations (1) (2013)

2011

12. Response to modeling and notation of DEA with strong and weak disposable outputs
    Health Care Management Science, 2011, 14, (4), 389-390 View citations (3)

2010

13. The impact of CON regulation on hospital efficiency
    Health Care Management Science, 2010, 13, (1), 84-100 View citations (14)
    See also Working Paper The impact of CON regulation on hospital efficiency, Post-Print (2010) View citations (13) (2010)

2009

14. Hospital capacity in large urban areas: is there enough in times of need?
    Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2009, 32, (2), 103-117 View citations (11)
    See also Working Paper Hospital Capacity in Large Urban Areas: Is There Enough in Times of Need?, Post-Print (2009) View citations (12) (2009)

2006

15. Analysis of uncompensated hospital care using a DEA model of output congestion
    Health Care Management Science, 2006, 9, (2), 181-188 View citations (29)
16. 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 (14)

2004

17. Comparing French and US hospital technologies: a directional input distance function approach
    Applied Economics, 2004, 36, (10), 1065-1081 View citations (22)
18. Do mergers improve hospital productivity?
    Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2004, 55, (10), 1071-1080 View citations (28)

1999

19. Can We Bootstrap DEA Scores?
    Journal of Productivity Analysis, 1999, 11, (1), 81-92 View citations (9)
    See also Working Paper Can We Bootstrap DEA Scores?, Department of Economics - Working Papers Series (1998) View citations (3) (1998)

1998

20. 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 (345)
    See also Working Paper Consistency conditions for regulatory analysis of financial institutions: a comparison of frontier efficiency methods, Financial Services working paper (1997) View citations (14) (1997)
21. Static and Dynamic Productivity among Yugoslav Enterprises: Components and Correlates
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1998, 26, (4), 805-821 View citations (8)
22. 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 (23)
    See also Working Paper The choice of a technical efficiency measure on the Free Disposal Hull reference technology: A comparison using US banking data, SESO Working Papers (1995) View citations (4) (1995)
23. The efficiency of TVA power distributors
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 1998, 19, (6), 365-376 View citations (5)

1997

24. Bootstrapping Confidence Intervals for Linear Programming Efficiency Scores: With an Illustration Using Italian Banking Data
    Journal of Productivity Analysis, 1997, 8, (1), 19-33 View citations (37)

1996

25. Best-practice technology in an adverse environment: The case of Indian sugar, 1981-1986
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1996, 29, (3), 493-522 View citations (1)
26. 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 (34)
    Also in Proceedings, 1996, 1004-1044 (1996) View citations (34)

1995

27. 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 (20)
28. Organizational Form and Efficiency: Evidence from Indian Sugar Manufacturing
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1995, 21, (1), 29-53 View citations (6)
29. 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 (10)

1994

30. Global optimization of statistical functions with simulated annealing
    Journal of Econometrics, 1994, 60, (1-2), 65-99 View citations (318)

1993

31. Discussants' comments on Pi and Timme, Grabowski et al. and Fare and Primont
    Journal of Banking & Finance, 1993, 17, (2-3), 545-549
32. Economies of diversification in the banking industry: A frontier approach
    Journal of Monetary Economics, 1993, 31, (2), 229-249 View citations (65)

1992

33. Climate Control Efficiency
    The Energy Journal, 1992, Volume 13, (Number 1), 37-54 View citations (7)
34. Simulated Annealing: An Initial Application in Econometrics
    Computer Science in Economics & Management, 1992, 5, (2), 133-46 View citations (12)

1991

35. THE PRODUCTIVE EFFICIENCY OF US MILK PROCESSING CO‐OPERATIVES
    Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1991, 42, (2), 161-173 View citations (22)

1990

36. Measuring cost efficiency in banking: Econometric and linear programming evidence
    Journal of Econometrics, 1990, 46, (1-2), 229-245 View citations (390)

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 (2)
   See also Working Paper Mutual Funds and Institutional Investments: What is the Most Efficient Way to Set Up Individual Accounts in a Social Security System?, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1999) View citations (9) (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