Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2025

Current editor(s): William Greene, Chris O'Donnell and Victor Podinovski

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Volume 64, issue 3, 2025

Two-tier stochastic frontier analysis: heterogeneous error distributions and model selection pp. 223-234

Alecos Papadopoulos

A class of generalized autoregressive score panel stochastic frontier models pp. 235-253

Kien C. Tran and Panayotis G. Michaelides

Beyond borders: how spillovers and commercial networks shape European productivity pp. 255-303

André Carrascal-Incera, Weilin Liu, Luis Orea and Robin Sickles

On the development of a unified, nonparametric materials balance-based efficiency analysis model and its applications pp. 305-319

Kenneth Løvold Rødseth

The generalized panel data stochastic frontier model: A review and nonparametric estimation pp. 321-339

Christopher F. Parmeter and Subal C. Kumbhakar

Some Remarks on the Occasion of Léopold Simar’s Lifetime Achievement Award pp. 341-347

Paul W. Wilson

Integrating soil natural capital into agricultural total factor productivity analysis pp. 349-361

A. Abad, T. Hien and P. Ravelojaona

An alternative derivation of the van IJzeren weights and some new results for the additive decomposition of Fisher indices pp. 363-377

Rolf Färe and Giannis Karagiannis

Measuring potential gains from mergers: An application of cost sub-additivity to Taiwan Higher Education pp. 379-391

Tsu-tan Fu, Cliff J. Huang and Wei-Hsin Kong

Scale economies in somatic hospitals in Norway pp. 393-404

Sverre A. C. Kittelsen, Kjartan S. Anthun, Anders M. Bilet, Halvard S. Jansen, Johanna Lidman, Jon Magnussen and Erik M. Sæther

Production under Physical Constraints: In honor of Finn Førsund pp. 405-409

Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf

Firm exit and entry over the business cycle in Spain pp. 411-437

Manuela Magalhães and Jesús Rodríguez-López

Is infrastructure capital really productive? Nonparametric modeling and data-driven model selection in a cross-sectionally dependent panel framework pp. 439-455

Antonio Musolesi, Giada Andrea Prete and Michel Simioni

Regional differences in Italian school efficiency: A conditional DEA approach pp. 457-491

Giorgia Zotti

Laspeyres-Paasche bounds for productivity index pp. 493-507

Hideyuki Mizobuchi and Valentin Zelenyuk

Latent class models with persistence in regime changes: a distributed lag analysis pp. 509-533

Luis Orea and K Hervé Dakpo

Cross efficiency evaluation in two-stage data envelopment analysis model with dual fairness concerns pp. 535-550

Chen Yingwen, Zhu Zhixi, Zhao Yingying and Zhuang Yahan

Construction of convex three-dimensional sections in DEA models with selective convexity pp. 551-558

Vladimir E. Krivonozhko, Alexandr P. Aphanasyev, Andrey V. Lychev and Pavel D. Khoner

Volume 64, issue 2, 2025

Can digital transformation enhance total factor productivity? Evidence from chinese listed manufacturing firms pp. 113-131

Jie Wu, Xiaoyu Wang and Jacob Wood

Does cluster farming improve efficiency? A case of wheat farmers in Arsi Zone of Oromia Region, Ethiopia pp. 133-144

Zenaye Degefu Agazhi, Melkamu Mada and Mebratu Alemu

Approximate Bayesian computation to estimate persistent and transient efficiency in stochastic frontier panel data models pp. 145-166

Andrés Ramírez–Hassan, Juan David Rengifo–Castro, Miguel Manzur and Estephania Rueda-Ramírez

Finance, productivity, and exports: Theory and firm-level evidence from China pp. 167-187

Yong Ma and Yiqing Jiang

Mismatch matters: education and productivity in laggard and frontier firms pp. 189-208

Ana Beatriz Rocha, Hugo Figueiredo, Carla Sá and Miguel Portela

Public bidding in government procurement - A new methodology for ranking bid proposals using full dimensional efficient facets of DEA frontier pp. 209-222

Marcos Pereira Estellita Lins, Luiz Fernando do Nascimento, José Hernando Dulá, Nilson Trevisan Torres and Angela Cristina M. E. Lins

Volume 64, issue 1, 2025

Measuring productivity in the open economy: Törnqvist perspectives pp. 1-21

Ulrich Kohli

Productivity slowdown and regional productivity heterogeneity pp. 23-41

Maria Tsiapa, Panayiotis Tzeremes and Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

General network production theory for good and bad inputs and outputs pp. 43-60

Harald Dyckhoff

Using stochastic frontier analysis to assess the performance of public service providers in the presence of demand uncertainty pp. 61-79

Hong Ngoc Nguyen and Christopher O’Donnell

Bayesian stochastic frontier models under the skew-normal half-normal settings pp. 81-91

Zheng Wei, S. T. Boris Choy, Tonghui Wang and Xiaonan Zhu

Enhancing Cost Efficiency Estimates with Trade-offs for Improved Reallocation Processes pp. 93-111

Alexander Öttl and Mette Asmild

Volume 63, issue 3, 2025

Dedication to my father, Robert pp. 239-239

Jeffrey R. Russell

In Memoriam: R. Robert Russell, 1938–2023 pp. 241-243

Daniel Henderson

Nonparametric analysis of separable production technologies with intermediate inputs pp. 245-254

Laurens Cherchye and Bram De Rock

Symmetries and duality in economic indexes inspired by R. Robert Russell pp. 255-260

Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf

Sequential data envelopment analysis: decentralization and solutions for panel data pp. 261-268

Rolf Färe, Zhichao Wang and Valentin Zelenyuk

Accounting for two-club convergence pp. 269-283

Daniel Henderson and R. Robert Russell

Direct utility functions for rank two and quadratic logarithmic continuous demand systems pp. 285-290

Arthur Lewbel

Weighted index of graph efficiency improvements for by-production technology and its application to the Indian coal-based thermal power sector pp. 291-315

Sushama Murty and Resham Nagpal

Resource capacity and economic growth convergence pp. 317-338

Barnabé Walheer and Sergio Perelman

Volume 63, issue 2, 2025

On the problem of the purchasing power of money by A. A. Konüs and S. S. Byushgens: translation and commentary pp. 107-132

Walter Diewert and Valentin Zelenyuk

Club convergence in regional labor productivity: how do Australian states and territories compare to the US, UK, and Canadian subnational regions? pp. 133-149

Omphile Temoso, Isaac Koomson and Buyani Thomy

Labor productivity growth effects of structural reforms: evidence from developing countries pp. 151-182

Kwamivi Mawuli Gomado

Maximum likelihood estimation of normal-gamma and normal-Nakagami stochastic frontier models pp. 183-198

Alexander Stead

R& D investments, outsourcing and non-neutral productivity growth pp. 199-218

Bee Yan Aw and Yi Lee

Accounting choices in data envelopment analysis pp. 219-237

Claire Murong Cui, Julie A. Harrison, Frederick Ng and Paul Rouse

Volume 63, issue 1, 2025

To chain or not to chain? measuring real GDP in the US and the choice of index number pp. 1-16

Nicholas Oulton

Productivity, investment slowdown, and misallocation: evidence from Indian manufacturing pp. 17-36

Sarthak Basu and Subash Sasidharan

Constant returns-to-scale production technologies with fixed ratio inputs and outputs pp. 37-48

Ole Bent Olesen, Grammatoula Papaioannou and Victor V. Podinovski

On value efficiency analysis and cone-ratio data envelopment analysis models pp. 49-68

Panagiotis Ravanos and Giannis Karagiannis

Modeling economies of scope in joint production: Convex regression of input distance function pp. 69-86

Timo Kuosmanen and Sheng Dai

COVID-19 under-reporting: spillovers and stringent containment strategies of global cases pp. 87-106

Yulu Wang and Subal C. Kumbhakar