Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2025

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

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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

Volume 60, issue 3, 2023

Special Symposium on Lifetime Achievements of Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf pp. 227-228

Robin C. Sickles

Productivity analysis: roots, foundations, trends and perspectives pp. 229-247

Valentin Zelenyuk

Path-based set representations pp. 249-256

Robert G. Chambers

Another look at productivity growth in industrialized countries pp. 257-272

Leopold Simar and Paul Wilson

Efficiency decomposition for multi-level multi-components production technologies pp. 273-294

Antonio Peyrache and Maria Silva

Adjusting for teammate effects in evaluating college prospects for the NBA draft pp. 295-314

Joseph Kuehn

The role of social protection in mitigating the effects of rainfall shocks. Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 315-332

Silvio Daidone and Francisco Pereira Fontes

The conditional mode in parametric frontier models pp. 333-343

William Horrace, Hyunseok Jung and Yi Yang

Volume 60, issue 2, 2023

Introduction to the symposium on inequality, discrimination, and productivity pp. 107-108

Christopher F. Parmeter and Robin C. Sickles

The role of poverty measurements in achieving educational equity through school finance reform pp. 109-127

Lori Taylor, Shawna Grosskopf, Kathy Hayes and Laura Razzolini

The gender-equal Union? Measuring female (dis)advantage and achievement in European Union Member States using a benefit-of-the-doubt framework pp. 129-145

Perrine Dehaspe and Nicky Rogge

Firm heterogeneity, biased technological change, and total factor productivity: Evidence from China pp. 147-177

Qizheng Gao, Jianqing Zhang and Guo Chen

A ray-based input distance function to model zero-valued output quantities: Derivation and an empirical application pp. 179-188

Juan José Price and Arne Henningsen

Efficiency measurement in the tendering of road surface renewal contracts pp. 189-202

Andrew S. J. Smith, Jan-Eric Nilsson, Ivan Ridderstedt and Oskar Johansson

The impact of local financial development and corruption control on firm efficiency in Vietnam: evidence from a geoadditive stochastic frontier analysis pp. 203-226

Rouven E. Haschka, Helmut Herwartz, Clara Silva Coelho and Yabibal Walle

Volume 60, issue 1, 2023

Detecting Learning by Exporting and from Exporters pp. 1-19

Jingfang Zhang and Emir Malikov

Spatial dependence in production frontier models pp. 21-36

Kassoum Ayouba

On hypothesis testing in latent class and finite mixture stochastic frontier models, with application to a contaminated normal-half normal model pp. 37-48

Alexander Stead, Phill Wheat and William H. Greene

The Estimation of a Polluting By-Production Technology Using Statistical Copulas pp. 49-62

Alexandre Repkine

Productivity in Procurement Auctions of Pavement Contracts in Mexico pp. 63-85

Daniel Prudencio

Performance of Water Utilities Evaluated from Different Stakeholders Perspectives: An Application to the Ivorian Sector pp. 87-105

Jean-Philippe Boussemart, Daouda Diakité and Raluca Parvulescu

Volume 59, issue 3, 2023

A generalized flexible functional form for α-returns to scale pp. 217-224

Hideyuki Mizobuchi and Valentin Zelenyuk

Sources of productivity growth in Eastern Europe and Russia before the global financial crisis pp. 225-241

Ilya Voskoboynikov

Spatial and cross-sectoral input spillover effects: the case of the Italian tourism industry pp. 243-258

Silvia Emili and Federica Galli

Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models pp. 259-279

Inmaculada Álvarez, Luis Orea and Alan Wall

Addition and aggregative efficiency pp. 281-285

Rolf Färe and Giannis Karagiannis

Does joining the European monetary union improve labor productivity? A synthetic control approach pp. 287-306

Hong Zhuang, Miao Grace Wang, Imre Ersoy and Mesut Eren

Volume 59, issue 2, 2023

Firm heterogeneity, worker training and labor productivity: the role of endogenous self-selection pp. 121-133

Sizhong Sun

Semi-parametric modelling of inefficiencies in stochastic frontier analysis pp. 135-152

Giovanni Forchini and Raoul Theler

Analyzing the land and labour productivity of farms producing renewable energy: the Italian case study pp. 153-172

Antonella Basso and Maria Bruna Zolin

Proper modelling of industrial production systems with unintended outputs: a different perspective pp. 173-188

Harald Dyckhoff

Further improvements of finite sample approximation of central limit theorems for envelopment estimators pp. 189-194

Leopold Simar, Valentin Zelenyuk and Shirong Zhao

Trade for catch-up: examining how global value chains participation affects productive efficiency pp. 195-215

Gideon Ndubuisi and Solomon Owusu

Volume 59, issue 1, 2023

Is newer always better? A reinvestigation of productivity dynamics using updated PWT data pp. 1-13

Yan Meng, Christopher F. Parmeter and Valentin Zelenyuk

Measuring heterogeneity in hospital productivity: a quantile regression approach pp. 15-43

Galina Besstremyannaya and Sergei Golovan

Assessing environmentally sensitive productivity growth: incorporating externalities and heterogeneity into water sector evaluations pp. 45-60

Jayanath Ananda and Dong-hyun Oh

Capacity utilization change over time pp. 61-78

Yao-yao Song, Xian-tong Ren and Guo-liang Yang

Regularized conditional estimators of unit inefficiency in stochastic frontier analysis, with application to electricity distribution market pp. 79-97

Zangin Zeebari, Kristofer Månsson, Pär Sjölander and Magnus Söderberg

Environmental information disclosure and firm production: evidence from the estimated efficiency of publicly listed firms in China pp. 99-119

Yunguo Lu and Lin Zhang