Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2025

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Volume 33, issue 3, 2010

Introduction to the special issue on agricultural productivity growth: a closer look at large, developing countries pp. 169-172

Keith Fuglie and David Schimmelpfennig

Technology capital: the price of admission to the growth club pp. 173-190

Robert Evenson and Keith Fuglie

Productivity, efficiency and technical change: measuring the performance of China’s transforming agriculture pp. 191-207

Songqing Jin, Hengyun Ma, Jikun Huang, Ruifa Hu and Scott Rozelle

Comparisons of agricultural productivity growth in China and India pp. 209-223

Alejandro Nin-Pratt, Bingxin Yu and Shenggen Fan

Sources of growth in Indonesian agriculture pp. 225-240

Keith Fuglie

Reforms and agricultural productivity in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics: 1989–2005 pp. 241-258

Johan Swinnen and Liesbet Vranken

Volume 33, issue 2, 2010

On functional form representation of multi-output production technologies pp. 81-96

Rolf Färe, Carlos Martins-Filho and Michael Vardanyan

Forecasting the Malmquist productivity index pp. 97-107

Alexandra Daskovska, Leopold Simar and Sébastien Bellegem

Adjusting for cultural differences, a new DEA model applied to a merged bank pp. 109-123

Joseph Paradi, Sandra Vela and Haiyan Zhu

Growth, productivity and diversification in Africa pp. 125-146

Hakim Ben Hammouda, Stephen Karingi, Angelica Njuguna and Mustapha Sadni Jallab

Different orders of one-sided scale elasticities in multi-output production pp. 147-167

Petros Hadjicostas and Andreas Soteriou

Volume 33, issue 1, 2010

Efficiency analysis in the presence of uncertainty pp. 1-17

Christopher O’Donnell, Robert Chambers and John Quiggin

Heterogeneity of technological regimes and banking efficiency in former socialist economies pp. 19-31

Tigran Poghosyan and Subal Kumbhakar

Technical efficiency and metatechnology ratios for dairy farms in three southern cone countries: a stochastic meta-frontier model pp. 33-45

Víctor Moreira and Boris Bravo-Ureta

Effective pollution control policy for China pp. 47-66

Jintao Xu, William Hyde and Yongjie Ji

The productivity effects of stock option schemes: evidence from Finnish panel data pp. 67-80

Derek Jones, Panu Kalmi and Mikko Mäkinen

Volume 32, issue 3, 2009

Non-jointness and scope economies in the multiproduct symmetric generalized McFadden cost function pp. 161-171

Kenneth Stewart

Estimating heterogeneous capacity and capacity utilization in a multi-species fishery pp. 173-189

Ronald Felthoven, William Horrace and Kurt Schnier

Price cap regulation and the ratchet effect: a generalized index approach pp. 191-201

Anna Bottasso and Maurizio Conti

Technical efficiency, specialization and ownership form: evidences from a pooling of Italian hospitals pp. 203-216

Silvio Daidone and Francesco D’Amico

Imposing regional monotonicity on translog stochastic production frontiers with a simple three-step procedure pp. 217-229

Arne Henningsen and Christian Henning

Volume 32, issue 2, 2009

Disaggregate productivity comparisons: sectoral convergence in OECD countries pp. 63-79

Johannes Van Biesebroeck

Testing differences in efficiency of regions within a country: the case of Ukraine pp. 81-102

Pavlo Demchuk and Valentin Zelenyuk

Hospital capacity in large urban areas: is there enough in times of need? pp. 103-117

Gary Ferrier, Hervé Leleu and Vivian Valdmanis

The effects of geographic expansion on the productivity of Spanish savings banks pp. 119-143

Manuel Illueca, José Pastor and Emili Tortosa-Ausina

Efficiency of insurance firms with endogenous risk management and financial intermediation activities pp. 145-159

John Cummins, Georges Dionne, Robert Gagné and A. Nouira

Volume 32, issue 1, 2009

The aggregation of capital over vintages in a model of embodied technical progress pp. 1-19

Walter Diewert

Production technologies based on combined proportionality assumptions pp. 21-26

Victor Podinovski

Target and technical efficiency in DEA: controlling for environmental characteristics pp. 27-40

O. Olesen and N. Petersen

The effect of marketing regulations on efficiency: LeChatelier versus coordination effects pp. 41-54

Natsuko Iwasaki and Victor Tremblay

Economic assumptions and choice of functional forms: comparison of top down and bottom up approaches pp. 55-62

Hang Ryu

Volume 31, issue 3, 2009

Exact decomposition of the Fisher ideal total factor productivity index pp. 137-150

Timo Kuosmanen and Timo Sipiläinen

Joint estimation of technology choice and technical efficiency: an application to organic and conventional dairy farming pp. 151-161

Subal Kumbhakar, Mike Tsionas and Timo Sipiläinen

A stochastic frontier analysis to estimate the relative efficiency of Spanish airports pp. 163-176

Juan Martín, Concepción Román and Augusto Voltes-Dorta

Output and productivity growth in the education sector: comparisons for the US and UK pp. 177-194

Mary O’Mahony and Philip Stevens

Regional variation in productivity: a study of the Danish economy pp. 195-212

Arnab Bhattacharjee, Eduardo Castro and Chris Jensen-Butler

Volume 31, issue 2, 2009

Axiomatic foundations of efficiency measurement on data-generated technologies pp. 77-86

R. Russell and William Schworm

Measuring residential energy efficiency improvements with DEA pp. 87-94

Peter Grösche

Bias of distance functions estimates and Primont and Primont’s homotheticity test pp. 95-100

Laurent Cavaignac

Spatial stochastic frontier models: accounting for unobserved local determinants of inefficiency pp. 101-112

Alexandra Schmidt, Ajax Moreira, Steven Helfand and Thais Fonseca

The efficiency of Spanish arable crop organic farms, a local maximum likelihood approach pp. 113-124

Teresa Serra and Barry Goodwin

Reallocation and productivity growth in Japan: revisiting the lost decade of the 1990s pp. 125-136

Naomi Griffin and Kazuhiko Odaki

Volume 31, issue 1, 2009

The effects of match uncertainty and bargaining on labor market outcomes: evidence from firm and worker specific estimates pp. 1-14

Subal Kumbhakar and Christopher Parmeter

Matching in local labor markets: a stochastic frontier approach pp. 15-26

Sanna-Mari Hynninen

Non-maximizing output behavior for firms with a cost-constrained technology pp. 27-32

Jos Blank

Model selection in stochastic frontier analysis with an application to maize production in Kenya pp. 33-46

Yanyan Liu and Robert Myers

Trade, wages, and the specific factors model: empirical evidence from manufacturing industries in Ghana pp. 47-55

Gokhan Akay

Decomposing productivity patterns in a conditional convergence framework pp. 57-75

Rosa Bernardini Papalia and Silvia Bertarelli

Volume 30, issue 3, 2008

A “calculus” for data envelopment analysis pp. 169-175

Robert Chambers and Rolf Färe

The dynamics of efficiency and productivity growth in U.S. electric utilities pp. 177-190

Supawat Rungsuriyawiboon and Spiro Stefanou

Debreu’s coefficient of resource utilization, the Solow residual, and TFP: the connection by Leontief preferences pp. 191-199

Thijs ten Raa

Trade and product innovations as sources for productivity increases: an empirical analysis pp. 201-211

Frank Den Butter, Jan Möhlmann and Paul Wit

Efficient frontier estimation: a maximum entropy approach pp. 213-221

Randall Campbell, Kevin Rogers and Jon Rezek

Parametric estimation of inefficiency in cargo handling in Spanish ports pp. 223-232

Juan Díaz-Hernández, Eduardo Martínez-Budría and Sergio Jara-Diaz

Volume 30, issue 2, 2008

Efficiency vectors, efficiency and performance measures: new methods for ranking efficient organizational units pp. 99-106

Jens Müller

Stochastic productivity measurement pp. 107-120

Robert Chambers

Environmental regulation and productivity: testing the porter hypothesis pp. 121-128

Paul Lanoie, Michel Patry and Richard Lajeunesse

What is the environmental performance of firms overseas? An empirical investigation of the global gold mining industry pp. 129-143

Gary Koop and Lise Tole

Optimal geographic diversification and firm performance: evidence from the U.K pp. 145-154

Nigel Driffield, Jun Du and Sourafel Girma

The temporal variation of cost-efficiency in Switzerland’s hospitals: an application of mixed models pp. 155-168

Mehdi Farsi

Volume 30, issue 1, 2008

Applied production analysis unveiled in open peer review: introductory remarks pp. 1-6

Spiro Stefanou and Kristiaan Kerstens

U.S. productivity in agriculture and R&D pp. 7-12

R. Färe, Shawna Grosskopf and D. Margaritis

Public inputs and dynamic producer behavior: endogenous growth in U.S. agriculture pp. 13-28

Alejandro Onofri and Lilyan Fulginiti

Price-induced technical progress in 80 years of US agriculture pp. 29-51

Quirino Paris

Three approaches to modeling a productive enterprise pp. 53-57

Steve Buccola

Commentary pp. 59-60

Antonio Alvarez

Commentary pp. 61-61

Bert Balk

Commentary pp. 63-65

Finn Førsund

Commentary pp. 67-68

Giannis Karagiannis

Commentary pp. 69-70

Colin Thirtle

Commentary pp. 71-75

Mike Tsionas

Rejoinder pp. 77-79

R. Färe, Shawna Grosskopf and D. Margaritis

Rejoinder pp. 81-85

A. Onofri and Lilyan Fulginiti

Rejoinder pp. 87-88

Quirino Paris