Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2025

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

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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

Erwin 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 D. 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

Volume 62, issue 3, 2024

Editors' introduction to the special issue in Honor of Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf pp. 259-266

Valentin Zelenyuk and Subhash Ray

Measurement and decomposition of profit efficiency under alternative definitions in nonparametric models pp. 267-290

Subhash C. Ray and Linge Yang

Productive efficiency analysis with incomplete output information pp. 291-301

Laurens Cherchye, Bram Rock, Dieter Saelens and Marijn Verschelde

Partially Convex Production Technology and Efficiency Measurement pp. 303-320

Sung Ko Li, Chun Kei Tsang and Shu Kam Lee

Aggregation in efficiency and productivity analysis: a brief review with new insights and justifications for constant returns to scale pp. 321-334

Valentin Zelenyuk

On aggregation of technical and revenue efficiency measures pp. 335-350

Mehmet A. Begen, Fredrik Ødegaard and Jafar Sadeghi

Positive weights in data envelopment analysis pp. 351-363

Maryam Hasannasab, Dimitris Margaritis, Israfil Roshdi and Paul Rouse

Nonparametric estimation of allocative efficiency using indirect production theory: Application to container ports in Norway pp. 365-377

Kenneth Løvold Rødseth, Rasmus Bøgh Holmen, Timo Kuosmanen and Halvor Schøyen

Alternative output, input and income concepts for the production accounts pp. 379-393

Walter Diewert and Kevin Fox

Correction to: Estimation of industry-level productivity with cross-sectional dependence by using spatial analysis pp. 395-395

Jaepil Han and Robin C. Sickles

Volume 62, issue 2, 2024

Efficiency in electricity distribution in Sweden and the effects of small-scale generation, electric vehicles and dynamic tariffs pp. 121-137

Tommy Lundgren and Mattias Vesterberg

Performance analysis of hospitals in Australia and its peers: a systematic and critical review pp. 139-173

Zhichao Wang, Bao Hoang Nguyen and Valentin Zelenyuk

Innovation strategies and firm performance pp. 175-196

Peter Bogetoft, Lene Kroman, Aleksandrs Smilgins and Anders Sørensen

Approximations and inference for envelopment estimators of production frontiers pp. 197-215

Cinzia Daraio and Leopold Simar

The inefficiency of courts of justice: industry structure, capacity and misallocation pp. 217-238

Antonio Peyrache and Angelo Zago

The contribution of innovation to farm-level productivity pp. 239-255

Iordanis Parikoglou, Grigorios Emvalomatis, Doris Läpple, Fiona Thorne and Michael Wallace

Correction: The contribution of innovation to farm-level productivity pp. 257-257

Iordanis Parikoglou, Grigorios Emvalomatis, Doris Läpple, Fiona Thorne and Michael Wallace

Volume 62, issue 1, 2024

Facet analysis in data envelopment analysis: some pitfalls of the CRS models pp. 1-27

O. B. Olesen and N. C. Petersen

Estimation of industry-level productivity with cross-sectional dependence by using spatial analysis pp. 29-52

Jaepil Han and Robin C. Sickles

Skewness-based test diagnosis of technical inefficiency in spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier models pp. 53-70

Ming-Yu Deng, Levent Kutlu and Mingxi Wang

“Wrong” skewness and endogenous regressors in stochastic frontier models: an instrument-free copula approach with an application to estimate firm efficiency in Vietnam pp. 71-90

Rouven E. Haschka

Best practices, performance advantage and trade-offs: new insights from frontier analysis pp. 91-110

Rui Sousa, Ana S. Camanho, Maria Conceição Silva, Giovani J. C. Silveira and Behrouz Arabi

Efficient estimation of true fixed-effects stochastic frontier models pp. 111-118

Ruggero Bellio and Luca Grassetti

Correction: Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models pp. 119-119

Inmaculada Álvarez, Luis Orea and Alan Wall

Volume 61, issue 3, 2024

Introduction to the special issue on African productivity pp. 191-194

Almas Heshmati, Christopher F. Parmeter and Robin C. Sickles

Growing green: enablers and barriers for Africa pp. 195-214

Chuku Chuku and Victor Ajayi

Ph.D. publication productivity: the role of gender and race in supervision in South Africa pp. 215-227

Giulia Rossello, Robin Cowan and Jacques Mairesse

An empirical assessment of the role of trade in services in export product diversification in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 229-257

Bouraima Sawadogo, Constant Fouopi Djiogap, Idrissa Ouedraogo and Moukaila Mouzamilou Takpara

Persistent and transient productive efficiency in the African airline industry pp. 259-278

Gianmaria Martini, Flavio Porta and Davide Scotti

Technology and managerial performance of farm operators by age in Ghana pp. 279-303

Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Richard K. Asravor, Alexander N. Wiredu and Manfred Zeller

The impacts of agricultural productivity on structural transformation, and poverty alleviation in Africa: evidence from Guinea-Bissau pp. 305-320

Júlio Vicente Cateia, Mauricio Bittencourt, Terciane Carvalho and Luc Savard

The evaluation of productivity in South African deciduous fruit industry: evidence from stone and pome fruits pp. 321-332

Lindikaya W. Myeki, Omphile Temoso and Bonani Nyhodo

Volume 61, issue 2, 2024

Two-tiered stochastic frontier models: a Bayesian perspective pp. 85-106

Shirong Zhao and Jeremy Losak

Inter-industry and intra-industry switching as sources of productivity growth: structural change of Finland’s ICT industries pp. 107-120

Natalia Kuosmanen and Timo Kuosmanen

The wrong skewness problem in stochastic frontier analysis: a review pp. 121-134

Alecos Papadopoulos and Christopher F. Parmeter

Estimation of endogenous firm productivity without instruments: an application to foreign investment pp. 135-155

Fei Jia, Minjie Huang and Shunan Zhao

The contribution of industrial robots to labor productivity growth and economic convergence: a production frontier approach pp. 157-181

Andreas Eder, Wolfgang Koller and Bernhard Mahlberg

The denominator rule with unit ratio difference pp. 183-190

Rolf Färe and Giannis Karagiannis

Volume 61, issue 1, 2024

Production analysis with asymmetric noise pp. 1-18

Oleg Badunenko and Daniel Henderson

On asymmetry and quantile estimation of the stochastic frontier model pp. 19-36

William Horrace, Christopher F. Parmeter and Ian A. Wright

Some notes on the asymmetry of the regression error pp. 37-42

Alecos Papadopoulos

A note on functional form specification in random coefficients stochastic frontier models pp. 43-46

Ioannis Skevas

Short-run Johansen frontier-based industry models: methodological refinements and empirical illustration on fisheries pp. 47-62

Kristiaan Kerstens, Jafar Sadeghi, Ignace Woestyne and John Walden

Eliminating congestion in China’s papermaking and paper products industry: From both the perspective of increasing and decreasing inputs pp. 63-82

Xian-tong Ren and Guo-liang Yang

Correction to: Eliminating congestion in China’s papermaking and paper products industry: from both the perspective of increasing and decreasing inputs pp. 83-83

Xian-tong Ren and Guo-liang Yang