Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2025

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

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Volume 23, issue 3, 2005

Efficiency Gains and Cost Reductions from Individual Transferable Quotas: A Stochastic Cost Frontier for the Australian South East Fishery pp. 285-307

Tom Kompas and Tuong Che

Notes on Sensitivity and Stability of the Classifications of Returns to Scale in Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 309-313

G. Jahanshahloo, F. Lotfi and M. Zohrehbandian

Notes on Sensitivity and Stability of the Classifications of Returns to Scale in Data Envelopment Analysis: A Comment pp. 315-316

Lawrence Seiford and Joe Zhu

Product Market Competition, Skill Shortages and Productivity: Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing Firms pp. 317-339

Jianmin Tang and Weimin Wang

Government Consumption and Industrial Productivity: Scale and Compositional Effects pp. 341-357

Geoffrey Wyatt

Multiple Comparisons with the Best: Bayesian Precision Measures of Efficiency Rankings pp. 359-382

Scott Atkinson and Jeffrey Dorfman

The Impact of Regulation on Cost Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis of Wisconsin Water Utilities pp. 383-409

Cécile Aubert and Arnaud Reynaud

Volume 23, issue 2, 2005

In memoriam pp. 141-142

Rolf Färe and N. Anders Klevmarken

Estimating the Potential Gains from Mergers pp. 145-171

Peter Bogetoft and Dexiang Wang

DEA and Dynamic Yardstick Competition in Scandinavian Electricity Distribution pp. 173-201

Per Agrell, Peter Bogetoft and Jørgen Tind

Visualizing Efficiency and Reference Relations in Data Envelopment Analysis with an Application to the Branches of a German Bank pp. 203-221

Marcus Porembski, Kristina Breitenstein and Paul Alpar

Misspecification Preferred: The Sensitivity of Inefficiency Rankings pp. 223-244

Uwe Jensen

Economic Efficiency and Productivity Growth in the Post-Privatization Chilean Hydroelectric Industry pp. 245-273

Scott Atkinson and Claudia Halabi

Volume 23, issue 1, 2005

Fixed and Random Effects in Stochastic Frontier Models pp. 7-32

William Greene

The Productivity of Government Spending in Asia: 1983–2000 pp. 33-46

Jonathan Leightner

Localized Innovation and Productivity Growth in Asia: An Intertemporal DEA Approach pp. 47-64

Marcel Timmer and Bart Los

The Measurement of Consumption Efficiency Considering the Discrete Choice of Consumers pp. 65-83

Jeong-Dong Lee, Seogwon Hwang and Tai-Yoo Kim

Korean And Taiwanese Productivity Performance: Comparisons at Matched Manufacturing Levels pp. 85-107

Frank Hsiao and Changsuh Park

Industrial and Spatial Spillovers and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Taiwan High-Technology Plant Level Data pp. 109-129

Diana Tsai and Marc Lin

Volume 22, issue 3, 2004

Imperfect Competition and Total Factor Productivity Growth pp. 173-184

Azzeddine Azzam, Rigoberto Lopez and Elena Lopez

Scale Economies and Efficiency in U.S. Agriculture: Are Traditional Farms History? pp. 185-205

Catherine Paul, Richard Nehring, David Banker and Agapi Somwaru

Using DEA to Identify and Manage Congestion pp. 207-226

Patrick Brockett, William Cooper, Honghui Deng, Linda Golden and T. Ruefli

Efficiency and Global Scale Characteristics on the “No Free Lunch” Assumption Only pp. 227-257

Victor Podinovski

Volume 22, issue 1, 2004

Market Imperfection and Productivity Growth—Alternative Estimates for Taiwan pp. 5-27

Chia-Hung Sun

A Switching Regime Approach to Measuring the Effects of Technological Change in Ocean Shipping pp. 29-49

Christopher Klein, Reuben Kyle and J. Bass

Choosing the Technical Efficiency Orientation to Analyze Firms' Technology: A Model Selection Test Approach pp. 51-71

Luis Orea, David Roibás and Alan Wall

Identifying Outliers in Multi-Output Models pp. 73-94

Kevin Fox, Robert Hill and Walter Diewert

Shadow Price Approach to Total Factor Productivity Measurement: With an Application to Finnish Grass-Silage Production pp. 95-121

Timo Kuosmanen, Thierry Post and Timo Sipiläinen

Comparisons of Economic Inefficiency Between Output and Input Measures of Technical Inefficiency Using the Fourier Flexible Cost Function pp. 123-142

Tai-hsin Huang and Mei-hui Wang

Centralized Resource Allocation Using Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 143-161

Sebastián Lozano and Gabriel Villa

Volume 21, issue 3, 2004

Profitability and Efficiency in the U.S. Life Insurance Industry pp. 229-247

William Greene and Dan Segal

The Roles of Employer and Employee Characteristics for Plant Productivity pp. 249-276

Pekka Ilmakunnas, Mika Maliranta and Jari Vainiomäki

Estimation of Technical Inefficiencies with Heterogeneous Technologies pp. 277-296

Ho-Chuan Huang

Quantifying Structural Change in U.S. Agriculture: The Case of Research and Productivity pp. 297-315

James Oehmke and David Schimmelpfennig

An Exact Index for the CES Function with Unobservable Prices pp. 317-336

Daehoon Nahm

An Implicit Törnqvist Index of Real GDP pp. 337-353

Ulrich Kohli

Volume 21, issue 2, 2004

Data Envelopment Analysis with Reverse Inputs and Outputs pp. 113-132

Herbert Lewis and Thomas Sexton

Measuring Cost Efficiency in European Banking: A Comparison of Frontier Techniques pp. 133-152

Laurent Weill

Using DEA and Worst Practice DEA in Credit Risk Evaluation pp. 153-165

Joseph Paradi, Mette Asmild and Paul Simak

Technological Opportunity and Productivity of R&D Activities pp. 167-181

Michael Fung

Measuring Hospital Performance in the Presence of Quasi-Fixed Inputs: An Analysis of Québec Hospitals pp. 183-199

Daniel Bilodeau, Pierre-Yves Crémieux, Brigitte Jaumard, Pierre Ouellette and Tsévi Vovor

Efficiency Performance and Dominance in Influential Subsets: An Evaluation using Fuzzy Clustering and Pair-wise Dominance pp. 201-220

Bill Seaver, Konstantinos Triantis and Barbara Hoopes

Volume 21, issue 1, 2004

Efficiency and Technical Change in Intertemporal Intersectoral DEA pp. 7-23

Joaquín Millán and Natalia Aldaz

Are all Scales Optimal in DEA? Theory and Empirical Evidence pp. 25-48

Finn Førsund and Lennart Hjalmarsson

Non-Parametric Production Analysis of Pesticides Use in the Netherlands pp. 49-65

Alfons Oude Lansink and Elvira Silva

Combining DEA Window Analysis with the Malmquist Index Approach in a Study of the Canadian Banking Industry pp. 67-89

Mette Asmild, Joseph Paradi, Vanita Aggarwall and Claire Schaffnit

A Metafrontier Production Function for Estimation of Technical Efficiencies and Technology Gaps for Firms Operating Under Different Technologies pp. 91-103

George Battese, D.S. Prasada Rao and Christopher O'Donnell

Volume 20, issue 3, 2003

Introduction pp. 237-241

Ole Olesen and N. Petersen

Rational Inefficiencies pp. 243-271

Peter Bogetoft and Jens Hougaard

Duality Theory of Non-convex Technologies pp. 273-304

Timo Kuosmanen

Multiple Objective Approach as an Alternative to Radial Projection in DEA pp. 305-321

Pekka Korhonen, Sari Stenfors and Mikko Syrjänen

Identification and Use of Efficient Faces and Facets in DEA pp. 323-360

Ole Olesen and N. Petersen

Testing Independence in Models of Productive Efficiency pp. 361-390

Paul Wilson

Detecting Outliers in Frontier Models: A Simple Approach pp. 391-424

Leopold Simar

Luenberger Productivity Indicators: Aggregation Across Firms pp. 425-435

R. Färe and D. Primont

The Decomposition of Malmquist Productivity Indexes pp. 437-458

C. Lovell

Some Remarks on Productivity and its Decompositions pp. 459-474

Shawna Grosskopf

Volume 20, issue 2, 2003

The Productivity Slowdown, Sectoral Reallocations and the Growth of Atypical Employment Arrangements pp. 121-142

E. Magnani

ICT Investment, Productivity and Efficiency: Evidence at Firm Level Using a Stochastic Frontier Approach pp. 143-167

Leonardo Becchetti, David Bedoya and L. Paganetto

Technical Efficiency of Australian Wool Production: Point and Confidence Interval Estimates pp. 169-190

Iain Fraser and William Horrace

Input- and Output-Oriented Technical Efficiency of Ukrainian Collective Farms, 1989–1992: Bayesian Analysis of a Stochastic Production Frontier Model pp. 191-211

Lyubov Kurkalova and A. Carriquiry

Adapting Productivity Theory to the Quadratic Cost Function. An Application to the Spanish Electric Sector pp. 213-229

E. Martínez-Budría, Sergio Jara-Diaz and Francisco Ramos-Real

Volume 20, issue 1, 2003

The Residual: On Monitoring and Benchmarking Firms, Industries, and Economies with Respect to Productivity pp. 5-47

Bert Balk

The Efficiency of Public Employment Services: A Nonparametric Matching Function Analysis for Switzerland pp. 49-70

George Sheldon

Dual Representations of Non-Parametric Technologies and Measurement of Technical Efficiency pp. 71-96

Walter Briec and Hervé Leleu

An Analysis of Differences in Earnings Between Small and Large Commercial Banks pp. 97-114

P.A.V.B. Swamy, George Tavlas and Thomas Lutton