Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2023

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

From Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Track citations for all items by RSS feed
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 54, issue 2, 2020

Knowledge accumulation in US agriculture: research and learning by doing pp. 87-105

Sansi Yang and C. Richard Shumway

A solution to log of dependent variables with negative observations pp. 107-119

Mustafa Karakaplan, Levent Kutlu and Mike Tsionas

Immigration and firm productivity: evidence from the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database pp. 121-137

Wulong Gu, Feng Hou and Garnett Picot

A semiparametric stochastic input distance frontier model with application to the Indonesian banking industry pp. 139-156

Kai Sun and Ruhul Salim

Volume 54, issue 1, 2020

Size and productivity: a conditional approach for Italian pharmaceutical sector pp. 1-12

Pierluigi Toma

Distance functions, bank output, and productivity pp. 13-26

David B. Humphrey

Modeling the effect of competition on US manufacturing sectors’ efficiency: an order-m frontier analysis pp. 27-41

Michael Polemis, Thanasis Stengos and Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

Efficiency measurement for general network systems: a slacks-based measure model pp. 43-57

Victor John M. Cantor and Kim Leng Poh

A non-parametric investigation of supply side factors and healthcare efficiency in the U.S pp. 59-74

Richard Gearhart and Nyakundi Michieka

Unknown latent structure and inefficiency in panel stochastic frontier models pp. 75-86

Levent Kutlu, Kien Tran and Mike Tsionas

Volume 53, issue 3, 2020

Hypothesis testing in nonparametric models of production using multiple sample splits pp. 287-303

Leopold Simar and Paul Wilson

Performance analysis for three pillars of sustainability pp. 305-320

Jean-Philippe Boussemart, Hervé Leleu, Zhiyang Shen and Vivian Valdmanis

Do manufacturing entrepreneurs in Australia have (or develop) a productivity advantage? pp. 321-338

Sasan Bakhtiari

Probabilistic frontier regression model for multinomial ordinal type output data pp. 339-354

Meena Badade and T. V. Ramanathan

Operational efficiency vs clinical safety, care appropriateness, timeliness, and access to health care pp. 355-375

Diogo Cunha Ferreira, Alexandre Morais Nunes and Rc Marques

Evaluating the efficiency of municipalities in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity pp. 377-390

Jose M. Cordero, Cristina Polo and Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

Volume 53, issue 2, 2020

Assessing the productivity consequences of agri-environmental practices when adoption is endogenous pp. 141-162

A. Bostian Aj, Moriah B. Bostian, Marita Laukkanen and Antti Simola

Estimating efficiency effects in a panel data stochastic frontier model pp. 163-180

Satya Paul and Sriram Shankar

Insights from machine learning for evaluating production function estimators on manufacturing survey data pp. 181-225

José Luis Preciado Arreola, Daisuke Yagi and Andrew Johnson

Productivity change in the privatized water sector in China (1999–2006) pp. 227-241

Jinjin Zhao

Non-structural and structural models in productivity analysis: study of the British Isles during the 2007–2009 financial crisis pp. 243-263

Binlei Gong and Robin Sickles

ICT labor, software usage, and productivity: firm-level evidence from Turkey pp. 265-285

Huseyin Tastan and Feride Gönel

Volume 53, issue 1, 2020

Introduction to APPC-2018, a Special Issue of the Journal of Productivity Analysis, “Novel Applications of Efficiency and Productivity Analyses in the Asia-Pacific Region” pp. 1-3

Jeong-Dong Lee and Almas Heshmati

The importance of research teams with diverse backgrounds: Research collaboration in the Journal of Productivity Analysis pp. 5-19

Hyundo Choi and Dong-hyun Oh

Estimation of technical change and TFP growth based on observable technology shifters pp. 21-36

Almas Heshmati and Masoomeh Rashidghalam

Measures of industry productivity change: the case of thermal electricity generation in Chinese provinces 2000–2014 pp. 37-52

Finn R. Førsund and Ke Wang

Efficiency of New Zealand’s District Health Boards at Providing Hospital Services: A stochastic frontier analysis pp. 53-68

Nan Jiang and Antony Andrews

Spatiotemporal analysis of Korean ginseng farm productivity pp. 69-78

Heesun Jang, Hyunhee Kim and Hojeong Park

TFP change and its components for Swedish manufacturing firms during the 2008–2009 financial crisis pp. 79-93

Pontus Mattsson, Jonas Månsson and William H. Greene

A novel decomposition of aggregate total factor productivity change pp. 95-105

Bert Balk

How to survive and compete: the impact of information asymmetry on productivity pp. 107-123

Man Jin, Huiting Tian and Subal Kumbhakar

Allocation of resources within subgroups of an industry: a case study in the Chinese industrial sector pp. 125-139

Chun-kei Tsang and Sung-ko Li

Volume 52, issue 1, 2019

Government assistance and total factor productivity: firm-level evidence from China pp. 1-27

Richard Harris and Shengyu Li

Evaluating the CDF of the distribution of the stochastic frontier composed error pp. 29-35

Christine Amsler, Peter Schmidt and Wen-Jen Tsay

The effects of access to credit on productivity: separating technological changes from changes in technical efficiency pp. 37-55

Nusrat Jimi, Plamen Nikolov, Mohammad Malek and Subal Kumbhakar

Farm size, inefficiency, and rice production cost in China pp. 57-68

Xiaoheng Zhang, Xiaohua Yu, Xu Tian, Xianhui Geng and Yingheng Zhou

A dynamic stochastic frontier model with threshold effects: U.S. bank size and efficiency pp. 69-84

Pavlos Almanidis, Mustafa Karakaplan and Levent Kutlu

Technological change, technological catch-up and export orientation: evidence from Latin American Countries pp. 85-100

Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

Volume 51, issue 2, 2019

Model averaging estimators for the stochastic frontier model pp. 91-103

Christopher Parmeter, Alan T. K. Wan and Xinyu Zhang

Measuring the efficiency of European education systems by combining Data Envelopment Analysis and Multiple-Criteria Evaluation pp. 105-124

Tommaso Agasisti, Giuseppe Munda and Ralph Hippe

Examining irrigation productivity in U.S. agriculture using a single-factor approach pp. 125-136

Eric Njuki and Boris E. Bravo-Ureta

Disaggregation for efficiency analysis pp. 137-151

Barnabé Walheer

Profit efficiency and earnings quality: Evidence from the Spanish banking industry pp. 153-174

Diego Prior, Emili Tortosa-Ausina, Maria García-Alcober and Manuel Illueca

Stochastic frontier models with correlated effects pp. 175-187

Giannis Karagiannis and Magnus Kellermann

Volume 51, issue 1, 2019

Estimation of inefficiency in stochastic frontier models: a Bayesian kernel approach pp. 1-19

Guohua Feng, Chuan Wang and Xibin Zhang

Robust stochastic frontier analysis: a Student’s t-half normal model with application to highway maintenance costs in England pp. 21-38

Phill Wheat, Alexander Stead and William Greene

Technology Gap and Managerial Efficiency: A Comparison between Islamic and Conventional Banks in MENA pp. 39-53

Mohamed Chaffai and M. Kabir Hassan

Benchmarking service quality in the urban water industry pp. 55-72

Jayanath Ananda and Nicholas Pawsey

Efficiency of hospitals in the Czech Republic: Conditional efficiency approach pp. 73-89

Camilla Mastromarco, Lenka Stastna and Jana Votapkova

Volume 50, issue 3, 2018

Reconciling the Porter hypothesis with the traditional paradigm about environmental regulation: a nonparametric approach pp. 85-100

Jean-Pierre Huiban, Camilla Mastromarco, Antonio Musolesi and Michel Simioni

Stochastic frontier models with network selectivity pp. 101-116

William Horrace and Hyunseok Jung

Estimation of technical change and price elasticities: a categorical time–varying coefficient approach pp. 117-138

Guohua Feng, Jiti Gao and Xiaohui Zhang

Stochastic non-smooth envelopment of data for multi-dimensional output pp. 139-154

Julia Schaefer and Marcel Clermont

Heterogeneous spillovers among Spanish provinces: a generalized spatial stochastic frontier model pp. 155-173

Alberto Gude, Inmaculada Álvarez and Luis Orea

Volume 50, issue 1, 2018

Estimation and testing of stochastic frontier models using variational Bayes pp. 1-24

Gholamreza Hajargasht and William Griffiths

Lasting lending relationships and technical efficiency. Evidence on European SMEs pp. 25-40

Mariarosaria Agostino, Sabrina Ruberto and Francesco Trivieri

Dynamic stochastic analysis of the farm subsidy-efficiency link: evidence from France pp. 41-54

Jean Joseph Minviel and Timo Sipiläinen

DEA target setting using lexicographic and endogenous directional distance function approaches pp. 55-70

Sebastián Lozano and Narges Soltani

A decomposition of US business sector TFP growth into technical progress and cost efficiency components pp. 71-84

Walter Diewert and Kevin Fox