Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2025

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

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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

Volume 19, issue 2, 2003

Guest Editors' Introduction pp. 123-125

Harold Fried and Suthathip Yaisawarng

Index Number Concepts, Measures and Decompositions of Productivity Growth pp. 127-159

Walter Diewert and Alice Nakamura

Productivity and Efficiency Measurement in Our “New Economy”: Determinants, Interactions, and Policy Relevance pp. 161-177

Catherine Morrison Paul

Simulated Likelihood Estimation of the Normal-Gamma Stochastic Frontier Function pp. 179-190

William Greene

Measurement of Dynamic Efficiency in Production: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis to Japanese Electric Utilities pp. 191-210

Jiro Nemoto and Mika Goto

Sequential Malmquist Indices of Productivity Growth: An Application to OECD Industrial Activities pp. 211-226

Victoria Shestalova

Two-Stage DEA: An Application to Major League Baseball pp. 227-249

Thomas Sexton and Herbert Lewis

Finding Closest Targets in Non-Oriented DEA Models: The Case of Convex and Non-Convex Technologies pp. 251-269

Maria Silva, Pedro Borges and Emmanuel Thanassoulis

Extending Productivity Research Frontiers: DEA Resource of Datasets and Errata pp. 271-275

Timothy Anderson, Paul Rouse, Rafael Borja, Ivan Hernandez, Fabricio Tobar and Liono Setiowijoso

Volume 19, issue 1, 2003

Nonparametric Dynamic Production Analysis and the Theory of Cost pp. 5-32

Elvira Silva and Spiro Stefanou

Building the Knowledge Stock: Lags, Depreciation, and Uncertainty in R&D Investment and Link with Productivity Growth pp. 33-58

Roberto Esposti and Pierpaolo Pierani

Measuring Inefficiency Via Potential Improvements pp. 59-76

Mette Asmild, Jens Hougaard, Dorte Kronborg and Hans Kvist

Selecting Sites for New Facilities Using Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 77-91

Wade Cook and Rodney Green

The Dynamic Production Axioms and System Dynamics Behaviors: The Foundation for Future Integration pp. 93-113

Warren Vaneman and Konstantinos Triantis

Relative Performance of U.S. and Japanese Electricity Distribution: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Analysis pp. 115-115

Toru Hattori

Volume 18, issue 3, 2002

Bank Cost Efficiency and Output Specification pp. 199-222

Emili Tortosa-Ausina

Cultivation Arrangements and the Cost Efficiency of Rice Farming in Taiwan pp. 223-239

Mei-Ying Huang, Cliff Huang and Tsu-Tan Fu

Heteroscedasticity and Non-Monotonic Efficiency Effects of a Stochastic Frontier Model pp. 241-253

Hung-Jen Wang

Efficiency of Chinese Enterprises pp. 255-267

Alice Shiu

Relative Performance of U.S. and Japanese Electricity Distribution: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Analysis pp. 269-284

Toru Hattori

Volume 18, issue 2, 2002

Neoclassical Growth Accounting and Frontier Analysis: A Synthesis pp. 111-128

Thijs ten Raa and Pierre Mohnen

One-Step and Two-Step Estimation of the Effects of Exogenous Variables on Technical Efficiency Levels pp. 129-144

Hung-Jen Wang and Peter Schmidt

Stochastic Frontiers and Asymmetric Information Models pp. 145-159

Philippe Gagnepain and Marc Ivaldi

Supply Restricted Telecommunications Markets: The Effect of Technical Efficiency on Waiting Times pp. 161-169

Robert Bartels and Towhidul Islam

Nonparametric Methods for Evaluating Economic Efficiency and Imperfect Competition pp. 171-189

Maarit Kallio and Markku Kallio

Volume 18, issue 1, 2002

Parametric Decomposition of a Generalized Malmquist Productivity Index pp. 5-22

Luis Orea

Separating Technical Change from Time-Varying Technical Inefficiency in the Absence of Distributional Assumptions pp. 23-38

Giannis Karagiannis, P. Midmore and Vangelis Tzouvelekas

Heterogeneity in Returns to Scale: A Random Coefficient Analysis with Unbalanced Panel Data pp. 39-57

Erik Biorn, Kjersti-Gro Lindquist and Terje Skjerpen

An Efficiency Comparison of European Banking Systems Operating under Different Environmental Conditions pp. 59-77

Ana Lozano-Vivas, Jesus Pastor and José Pastor

How Fast Do Banks Adjust? A Dynamic Model of Labor-Use with an Application to Swedish Banks pp. 79-102

Subal Kumbhakar, Almas Heshmati and Lennart Hjalmarsson

Volume 17, issue 3, 2002

Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis under Price Uncertainty: A First-Order Stochastic Dominance Approach pp. 183-200

Timo Kuosmanen and Thierry Post

A Note on Measuring the Productivity Offset for Regulatory Purposes pp. 201-211

Noel Uri

Productivity Growth in the Western Hemisphere (1978–94): The Caribbean in Perspective pp. 213-231

Pooran Lall, Allen Featherstone and David Norman

The Effect of Technological Change and Technical Inefficiencies on the Performance of Functional Forms pp. 233-247

Robert Gagné and Pierre Ouellette

The Fixed Weighting Nature of A Cross-Evaluation Model pp. 249-255

Timothy Anderson, Keith Hollingsworth and Lane Inman

Volume 17, issue 1, 2002

William W. Cooper: A Legend in His Own Times pp. 7-12

Subhash Ray

On the Origins of Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 23-40

Finn Førsund and Nikias Sarafoglou

Two Perspectives on DEA: Unveiling the Link between CCR and Shephard pp. 41-47

Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf

On the Use of Value Efficiency Analysis and Some Further Developments pp. 49-64

Pekka Korhonen, Margareta Soismaa and Aapo Siljamäki

Efficient Facet Based Efficiency Index: A Variable Returns to Scale Specification pp. 65-82

Tarmo Räty

The Use of Data Envelopment Analysis with Probabilistic Assurance Regions for Measuring Hospital Efficiency pp. 83-109

Ole Olesen and Niels Petersen

Evaluating the Adequacy of Parametric Functional Forms in Estimating Monotone and Concave Production Functions pp. 111-132

Rajiv Banker, Surya Janakiraman and Ram Natarajan

Specification of Distance Functions Using Semi- and Nonparametric Methods with an Application to the Dynamic Performance of Eastern and Western European Air Carriers pp. 133-155

Robin Sickles, David Good and Lullit Getachew

Accounting for Environmental Effects and Statistical Noise in Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 157-174

H. Fried, C. Lovell, S. Schmidt and S. Yaisawarng