Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2025

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

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Volume 29, issue 3, 2008

Farrell efficiency under value and quantity data pp. 193-199

Robin Cross and Rolf Färe

Far out or alone in the crowd: a taxonomy of peers in DEA pp. 201-210

Dag Edvardsen, Finn Førsund and Sverre Kittelsen

Internal and external restructuring over the cycle: a firm-based analysis of gross flows and productivity growth in Portugal pp. 211-220

Carlos Carreira and Paulino Teixeira

Is competition really bad news for cooperatives? Some empirical evidence for Italian producers’ cooperatives pp. 221-233

Ornella Maietta and Vania Sena

Investment and dynamic DEA pp. 235-247

Pierre Ouellette and Li Yan

Productivity and efficiency of state-owned enterprises in China pp. 249-259

Feng-Cheng Fu, Chu-Ping Vijverberg and Yong-Sheng Chen

Volume 29, issue 2, 2008

Introduction for Journal of Productivity Analysis special issue on transitioning economics pp. 77-77

Sung-ko Li, Leopold Simar, Paul Wilson and Valentin Zelenyuk

On the inefficiency of European socialist economies pp. 79-89

Laurent Weill

Foreign presence and efficiency in transition economies pp. 91-102

Victoria Kravtsova

Productivity efficiencies in Ukrainian polyclinics: lessons for health system transitions from differential responses to market changes pp. 103-111

Patrick Bernet, Michael Rosko, Vivian Valdmanis, Anatoly Pilyavsky and William Aaronson

Firm turnover and productivity differentials in Ethiopian manufacturing pp. 113-129

Mulu Gebreeyesus

Distorted prices and producer efficiency: the case of Romania pp. 131-142

Johannes Sauer and B. Balint

Efficiency and productivity change in Ukrainian health care pp. 143-154

Anatoly Pilyavsky and Matthias Staat

Efficiency analysis of East European electricity distribution in transition: legacy of the past? pp. 155-167

Astrid Cullmann and Christian Hirschhausen

Cost efficiency of Slovenian water distribution utilities: an application of stochastic frontier methods pp. 169-182

Massimo Filippini, Nevenka Hrovatin and Jelena Zorić

Application of a double bootstrap to investigation of determinants of technical efficiency of farms in Central Europe pp. 183-191

Laure Latruffe, Sophia Davidova and Kelvin Balcombe

Volume 29, issue 1, 2008

Public infrastructure, input efficiency and productivity growth in the Canadian food processing industry pp. 1-13

Jeffrey Bernstein and Theofanis Mamuneas

A response to the critiques of DEA by Dmitruk and Koshevoy, and Bol pp. 15-21

W. Cooper, Z. Huang, S. Li and J. Zhu

Accounting for growth in retail trade: an international productivity comparison pp. 23-31

Robert Inklaar and Marcel Timmer

Flexible mixture modelling of stochastic frontiers pp. 33-50

Jim Griffin and Mark Steel

The impact of patents and standards on macroeconomic growth: a panel approach covering four countries and 12 sectors pp. 51-60

Knut Blind and Andre Jungmittag

Expense preference behavior and management “outsourcing”: a comparison of adopters and non-adopters of contract management in U.S. hospitals pp. 61-75

Kathleen Carey and Avi Dor

Volume 28, issue 3, 2007

Some models and measures for evaluating performances with DEA: past accomplishments and future prospects pp. 151-163

W. Cooper, Lawrence Seiford, K. Tone and J. Zhu

On the accuracy of bootstrap confidence intervals for efficiency levels in stochastic frontier models with panel data pp. 165-181

Myungsup Kim, Yangseon Kim and Peter Schmidt

How to improve the performances of DEA/FDH estimators in the presence of noise? pp. 183-201

Leopold Simar

The Morishima gross elasticity of substitution pp. 203-208

Charles Blackorby, Daniel Primont and R. Russell

Closest targets and minimum distance to the Pareto-efficient frontier in DEA pp. 209-218

Juan Aparicio, José Ruiz and Inmaculada Sirvent

Bridging the barriers: knowledge connections, productivity and capital accumulation pp. 219-231

R. Quentin Grafton, Tom Kompas and Dorian Owen

Volume 28, issue 1, 2007

Special issue on: applications and application-motivated developments in productivity analysis pp. 1-2

Emmanuel Thanassoulis and Victor Podinovski

Environmental efficiency measurement and the materials balance condition pp. 3-12

Timothy Coelli, Ludwig Lauwers and Guido Huylenbroeck

Conditional nonparametric frontier models for convex and nonconvex technologies: a unifying approach pp. 13-32

Cinzia Daraio and Leopold Simar

DEA-R: ratio-based comparative efficiency model, its mathematical relation to DEA and its use in applications pp. 33-44

Ozren Despic, Mladen Despić and Joseph Paradi

Calculation of scale elasticities in DEA models: direct and indirect approaches pp. 45-56

Finn Førsund, Lennart Hjalmarsson, Vladimir Krivonozhko and Oleg Utkin

Eco-efficiency analysis of consumer durables using absolute shadow prices pp. 57-69

Mika Kortelainen and Timo Kuosmanen

Performance measurement and best-practice benchmarking of mutual funds: combining stochastic dominance criteria with data envelopment analysis pp. 71-86

Timo Kuosmanen

Productivity, convergence and policy: a study of OECD countries and industries pp. 87-105

Dimitris Margaritis, Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf

Measuring potential gains from reallocation of resources pp. 107-116

Vladimir Nesterenko and Valentin Zelenyuk

Improving discrimination in data envelopment analysis: some practical suggestions pp. 117-126

Victor Podinovski and Emmanuel Thanassoulis

Determining the contribution of technical change, efficiency change and scale change to productivity growth in the privatized English and Welsh water and sewerage industry: 1985–2000 pp. 127-139

David Saal, David Parker and Tom Weyman-Jones

A cautionary note on methods of comparing programmatic efficiency between two or more groups of DMUs in data envelopment analysis pp. 141-147

Gary Simpson

Volume 27, issue 3, 2007

Efficiency evaluation in municipal services: an application to the street lighting service in Spain pp. 149-162

José Lorenzo and Isabel Sánchez

Bayesian stochastic frontier analysis using WinBUGS pp. 163-176

Jim Griffin and Mark Steel

Financial liberalization and banking efficiency: evidence from Turkey pp. 177-195

Cevdet Denizer, Mustafa Dinc and Murat Tarimcilar

Information value and efficiency measurement for risk-averse firms pp. 197-208

Robert Chambers and John Quiggin

Opening the black box: Finding the source of cost inefficiency pp. 209-220

Santiago Carbo Valverde, David Humphrey and Rafael López del Paso

Performance evaluation using data envelopment analysis in the presence of time lags pp. 221-229

Ozgur Ozpeynirci and Murat Köksalan

Shadow profit maximization and a measure of overall inefficiency pp. 231-236

Subhash Ray

Volume 27, issue 2, 2007

Introduction to a Special Issue on Productivity Measurement if Complex Services Industries pp. 85-86

Mette Asmild and Joseph Paradi

Do we estimate an input or an output distance function? An application of the mixture approach to European railways pp. 87-100

Subal Kumbhakar, Luis Orea, Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez and Mike Tsionas

Evaluating food retailing efficiency: the role of information technology pp. 101-113

Timothy Park and Robert King

Estimating DEA technical and allocative inefficiency using aggregate cost or revenue data pp. 115-121

Rajiv Banker, Hsihui Chang and Ram Natarajan

Intra- and inter-country bank branch assessment using DEA pp. 123-136

Denise McEachern and Joseph Paradi

Estimating global frontier shifts and global Malmquist indices pp. 137-148

Mette Asmild and Fai Tam

Volume 27, issue 1, 2007

Stochastic frontier models with multiple time-varying individual effects pp. 1-12

Seung Ahn, Young Hoon Lee and Peter Schmidt

Measuring performance in the presence of stochastic demand for hospital services: an analysis of Belgian general care hospitals pp. 13-29

Mike Smet

Allocative efficiency of rural water supply – a globally flexible SGM cost frontier pp. 31-40

Johannes Sauer and Klaus Frohberg

Are some Indian banks too large? An examination of size efficiency in Indian banking pp. 41-56

Subhash Ray

Technical efficiency in farming: a meta-regression analysis pp. 57-72

Boris Bravo-Ureta, Daniel Solis, Víctor Moreira López, José Maripani, Abdourahmane Thiam and Teodoro Rivas

The cost of strikes in the Spanish mining sector: modelling an undesirable input with a distance function pp. 73-83

Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez, Ignacio Del Rosal and José Baños