Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2025

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

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Scale Efficiency and Productivity Change pp. 159-183: Bert Balk
Inter-Firm and Intra-Firm Efficiency Measures pp. 185-199: Alfons Lansink, Elvira Silva and Spiro Stefanou
FDH Directional Distance Functions with an Application to European Commercial Banks pp. 201-215: Laurens Cherchye, Timo Kuosmanen and Thierry Post
Sensitivity and Stability Analysis in DEA: Some Recent Developments pp. 217-246: W. Cooper, Shanling Li, Lawrence Seiford, Kaoru Tone, R. Thrall and J. Zhu

A Parametric Distance Function Approach for Malmquist Productivity Index Estimation pp. 79-94: Hugo Fuentes, Emili Grifell-Tatje and Sergio Perelman
Stochastic DEA Models With Different Types of Input-Output Disturbances pp. 95-113: Zhimin Huang and Susan Li
The Effect of Sample Size on the Mean Efficiency in DEA: Comment pp. 129-137: Matthias Staat
The Range Adjusted Measure (RAM) in DEA: Comment pp. 139-144: Lukas Steinmann and Peter Zweifel
The Range Adjusted Measure (RAM) in DEA: A Response to the Comment by Steinmann and Zweifel pp. 145-152: William Cooper, Kyung Park and Jesus Pastor

Levels of Farm Sector Productivity: An International Comparison pp. 5-29: V. Ball, Jean-Christophe Bureau, Jean-Pierre Butault and Richard Nehring
Homotheticity and Non-Radial Changes pp. 31-39: Robert Chambers and Thomas Mitchell
Evaluating Effectiveness in Public Provision of Infrastructure and Equipment: The Case of Spanish Municipalities pp. 41-58: Angel Prieto and José Zofío
A Model of Optimal Dynamic Oil Extraction: Evidence From a Large Middle Eastern Field pp. 59-71: Robin Sickles and Peter Hartley

Productivity Paradoxes and Their Resolution pp. 191-207: Shlomo Maital and Alexander Vaninsky
Multicomponent Efficiency Measurement and Shared Inputs in Data Envelopment Analysis: An Application to Sales and Service Performance in Bank Branches pp. 209-224: Wade Cook, Moez Hababou and Hans Tuenter
Estimating X-Efficiency in Taiwanese Banking Using a Translog Shadow Profit Function pp. 225-245: Tai-Hsin Huang
Testing for Intermediate Outputs in Dynamic DEA Models: Accounting for Soil Capital in Rotational Crop Production and Productivity Measures pp. 247-266: Edward Jaenicke
Returns to Scale on Nonparametric Deterministic Technologies: Simplifying Goodness-of-Fit Methods Using Operations on Technologies pp. 267-274: Walter Briec, Kristiaan Kerstens, Hervé Leleu and Philippe Eeckaut

A Review and Empirical Comparison of Bayesian and Classical Approaches to Inference on Efficiency Levels in Stochastic Frontier Models with Panel Data pp. 91-118: Yangseon Kim and Peter Schmidt
Stochastic Technical Change and Procyclical TFP The Case of Italian Agriculture pp. 119-141: Roberto Esposti
A General Procedure to Recover the Marginal Products of a Cost Minimizing Firm pp. 143-162: Pierre Ouellette and Stéphane Vigeant
Research Investment and the Economic Returns To Chinese Agricultural Research pp. 163-182: Shenggen Fan

International Comparisons of Labour Productivity in Transport and Communications: The US, the UK and Germany pp. 7-30: Mary O'Mahony and Nicholas Oulton
Total Factor Productivity Growth and Technical Change in a Profit Function Framework pp. 31-51: Giannis Karagiannis and George Mergos
Incorporating Price-Induced Innovation in a Symmetric Generalised McFadden Cost Function with Several Outputs pp. 53-70: Ludo Peeters and Yves Surry
A Monte Carlo Study on the Finite Sample Properties of the Gibbs Sampling Method for a Stochastic Frontier Model pp. 71-83: Xingyuan Zhang

Full Likelihood Inference in Normal-Gamma Stochastic Frontier Models pp. 183-205: Mike Tsionas
Fuzzy Pair-wise Dominance and Implications for Technical Efficiency Performance Assessment pp. 207-230: Konstantinos Triantis and Philippe Eeckaut
Material And Value-Adding Inputs In Manufacturing Enterprises pp. 231-247: Steven Buccola
Efficiency Measurement With Unbalanced Panel Data: Evidence from Tunisian Textile, Clothing and Leather Industries pp. 249-262: Mohamed Goaïed and Rim Mouelhi
What Is the Economic Meaning of FDH? A Reply to Thrall pp. 263-267: Laurens Cherchye, Timo Kuosmanen and Thierry Post

New Approaches to Measures of Efficiency in DEA: An Introduction pp. 91-92: W. Cooper and C. Lovell
Theory and Application of Directional Distance Functions pp. 93-103: Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf
Marginal Rates and Elasticities of Substitution with Additive Models in DEA pp. 105-123: W. Cooper, Dr. Park and Professor Ciurana
Measures in DEA with an Application to the Malmquist Index pp. 125-137: Robert Thrall
A Production Model With Firm-Specific Temporal Variation in Technical Inefficiency: With Application to Spanish Dairy Farms pp. 139-158: Rafael Cuesta
Technical Efficiency and Its Determinants in China's Grain Production pp. 159-174: Weiming Tian and Guang Wan

Editor's Introduction pp. 5-6: C. Lovell
DEA and Activity Planning under Asymmetric Information pp. 7-48: Peter Bogetoft
Statistical Inference in Nonparametric Frontier Models: The State of the Art pp. 49-78: Leopold Simar and Paul Wilson

Estimating Production Uncertainty in Stochastic Frontier Production Function Models pp. 187-210: Anil Bera and Subhash Sharma
Parametric and Nonparametric Approaches to Benchmarking the Regulated Firm pp. 211-231: Gerald Granderson and Carl Linvill
Efficiency Evaluations Based on Potential (Non-Proportional) Improvements pp. 233-247: Peter Bogetoft and Jens Hougaard
Incorporating the Operating Environment Into a Nonparametric Measure of Technical Efficiency pp. 249-267: Harold Fried, Shelton Schmidt and Suthathip Yaisawarng

Probabilistic Bounds on the Virtual Multipliers in Data Envelopment Analysis: Polyhedral Cone Constraints pp. 103-133: Ole Olesen and Niels Petersen
Measuring the Impact of Price-Induced Innovation on Technological Progress: Application to the U.S. Food Processing and Distribution Sector pp. 135-151: Pinar Celikkol and Spiro Stefanou
A Flexible, Globally Regular Representation of Convex Production Possibilities Frontiers pp. 153-159: Carlo Perroni
Production Risk and Productivity Growth: Some Findings for Norwegian Salmon Aquaculture pp. 161-179: Ragnar Tveteros

Aggregation of Efficiency Indices pp. 5-20: Charles Blackorby and R. Russell
An Integrated Assessment of Productivity and Efficiency Impacts of Information Technology Investments: Old Data, New Analysis and Evidence pp. 21-43: Byungtae Lee and Anitesh Barua
An Average Derivative Estimation of Stochastic Frontiers pp. 45-53: Cliff Huang and Tsu-Tan Fu
Sensitivity and Stability of the Classifications of Returns to Scale in Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 55-75: Lawrence Seiford and Joe Zhu
Investing in Research and Education versus Commodity Programs: Implications for Agricultural Productivity pp. 77-94: Shiva Makki, Luther Tweeten and Cameron Thraen