Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2024

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Volume 11, issue 3, 1999

Estimating Multiproduct Cost Functions Over Time Using a Mixture of Normals pp. 201-218

Daniel Gropper, Steven B Caudill and Thomas Beard

Dynamic Factor Demands and Technology Measurement under Arbitrary Expectations pp. 219-241

Pierre Lasserre and Pierre Ouellette

What Is the Economic Meaning of FDH? pp. 243-250

Robert Thrall

Accounting for Environmental Influences in Stochastic Frontier Models: With Application to International Airlines pp. 251-273

Timothy Coelli, Sergio Perelman and Elliot Romano

Projections Onto Efficient Frontiers: Theoretical and Computational Extensions to DEA pp. 275-300

Frances Frei and Patrick Harker

Volume 11, issue 2, 1999

Hölder Distance Function and Measurement of Technical Efficiency pp. 111-131

W. Briec

Reform and Efficiency Gains in the New Zealand Electrical Supply Industry pp. 133-147

Gerald Scully

Using Simulation and Data Envelopment Analysis to Compare Assembly Line Balancing Solutions pp. 149-168

Patrick McMullen and Gregory Frazier

Analysis of Intertemporal Efficiency Trends Using Rank Statistics With an Application Evaluating the Macro Economic Performance of OECD Nations pp. 169-182

P. Brockett, B. Golany and Shan Li

Measuring Scale Efficiency from a Translog Production Function pp. 183-194

Subhash Ray

Volume 11, issue 1, 1999

RAM: A Range Adjusted Measure of Inefficiency for Use with Additive Models, and Relations to Other Models and Measures in DEA pp. 5-42

William Cooper, Kyung Park and Jesus Pastor

Temporary Equilibrium, Full Equilibrium, and Elasticity of Cost pp. 43-54

Panos Fousekis

Scale Economy Measures and Subequilibrium Impacts pp. 55-66

Catherine Paul

Some Problems with the Ferrier/Hirschberg Bootstrap Idea pp. 67-80

Leopold Simar and Paul Wilson

Can We Bootstrap DEA Scores? pp. 81-92

Gary Ferrier and Joseph Hirschberg

Of Course We Can Bootstrap DEA Scores! But Does It Mean Anything? Logic Trumps Wishful Thinking pp. 93-97

Leopold Simar and Paul Wilson

Volume 10, issue 3, 1998

Non-Parametric Estimation of Technical Progress pp. 235-250

Kevin Fox

Tests of Representative Firm Models: Results for German Manufacturing Industries pp. 251-270

Bertrand Koebel

Efficiency and Technological Change in the U.S. Brewing Industry pp. 271-288

Joe Kerkvliet, William Nebesky, Carol Tremblay and Victor Tremblay

Productivity Measurement from a Reference Technology: A Distance Function Approach pp. 289-304

David Lambert

Cost-Optimal Scale of Child Care Institutions pp. 305-311

Vidar Ringstad and Knut Løyland

Volume 10, issue 2, 1998

Comparison of Frontier Efficiency Methods: An Application to the U.S. Life Insurance Industry pp. 131-152

John Cummins and Hongmin Zi

A Cost Indirect Evaluation of Productivity Change in UK Universities pp. 153-175

J. Glass, Donal McKillop and Gary O'Rourke

Hierarchies and Groups in DEA pp. 177-198

Wade Cook, Dan Chai, John Doyle and Rodney Green

The Workweek of Capital and Capital Utilization in Manufacturing pp. 199-223

J. Beaulieu and Joe Mattey

Volume 10, issue 1, 1998

A Quasi-Malmquist Productivity Index pp. 7-20

Emili Grifell-Tatje, C. Lovell and Jesus Pastor

The Rise and Fall of Slacks: Comments on Quasi-Malmquist Productivity Indices pp. 21-34

Finn Førsund

Estimating Radial Measures of Productivity Growth: Frontier vs Non-Frontier Approaches pp. 35-46

Scott Atkinson and Christopher Cornwell

Quantity, Quality, and Efficiency for a Partially Super-Additive Cost Function: Connecticut Public Schools Revisited pp. 47-62

Subhash Ray and Kankana Mukherjee

Technology and Cost Efficiency in Universal Banking A “Thick Frontier”-Analysis of the German Banking Industry pp. 63-84

Günter Lang and Peter Welzel

A Mathematical Programming Approach for Measuring Technical Efficiency in a Fuzzy Environment pp. 85-102

Konstantinos Triantis and Olivier Girod

Numerical Tools for the Bayesian Analysis of Stochastic Frontier Models pp. 103-117

Jacek Osiewalski and Mark Steel

Volume 9, issue 3, 1998

The Effect of Sample Size on the Mean Efficiency in DEA with an Application to Electricity Distribution in Australia, Sweden and New Zealand pp. 187-204

Yun Zhang and Robert Bartels

Marginal Rates and Two-dimensional Level Curves in DEA pp. 205-232

Dan Rosen, Claire Schaffnit and Joseph Paradi

Regulation and Productivity pp. 233-247

Charles Dufour, Paul Lanoie and Michel Patry

A Simulation Study of Joint Uses of Data Envelopment Analysis and Statistical Regressions for Production Function Estimation and Efficiency Evaluation pp. 249-278

Indranil Bardhan, William Cooper and Subal Kumbhakar

The Most Influential DEA Publications: A Comment on Seiford pp. 279-281

Nikias Sarafoglou

Volume 9, issue 2, 1998

On the Functional Form of an Efficiency Index pp. 103-111

Jens Hougaard and Hans Keiding

An Assessment of the Performance of Indian State-Owned Enterprises pp. 113-132

Gautam Ahuja and Sumit Majumdar

A Note on the Importance of Testing for Regularities for Estimated Flexible Functional Forms pp. 133-143

Kjell Salvanes and Sigve Tjøtta

Characterizing Managerial Skill and Technical Efficiency in a Fishery pp. 145-160

James Kirkley, Dale Squires and Ivar Strand

Another Approach to Data Envelopment Analysis in Noisy Environments: DEA+ pp. 161-176

Dieter Gstach

Volume 9, issue 1, 1998

Productivity Dynamics: U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1972–1986 pp. 5-34

Eric Bartelsman and Phoebus Dhrymes

The Relationship Between Stock Market Returns and Technical Efficiency Innovations: Evidence from the US Airline Industry pp. 35-51

Ila Alam and Robin Sickles

Chance Constrained Programming Formulations for Stochastic Characterizations of Efficiency and Dominance in DEA pp. 53-79

William Cooper, Zhimin Huang, Vedran Lelas, Susan Li and Ole Olesen

Some Remarks on Modified FDH pp. 81-94

Tom Puyenbroeck

Volume 8, issue 4, 1997

Guest Editors' Introduction pp. 323-324

George Battese and Timothy Coelli

Causal Influences on Productivity Performance 1820–1992: A Global Perspective pp. 325-359

Angus Maddison

International Comparisons of Australia's Infrastructure Performance pp. 361-378

Denis Lawrence, John Houghton and Anna George

Technical Inefficiency Effects Among Paddy Farmers in the Villages of the ‘Office du Niger’, Mali, West Africa pp. 379-394

Martine Audibert

Functional Forms of Stochastic Frontier Production Functions and Models for Technical Inefficiency Effects: A Comparative Study for Wheat Farmers in Pakistan pp. 395-414

George Battese and Sumiter Broca

Performance Measurement in Government Service Provision: The Case of Police Services in New South Wales pp. 415-430

Roger Carrington, Nara Puthucheary, Deirdre Rose and Suthathip Yaisawarng

Estimating Technological Change Using a Stochastic Frontier Production Function Framework: Evidence from U.S. Firm-Level Data pp. 431-446

Rajeev Dhawan and Geoffrey Gerdes

Productive Efficiency of the Swine Industry in Hawaii: Stochastic Frontier vs. Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 447-459

Khem Sharma, Pingsun Leung and Halina Zaleski

Technical Change and Efficiency in Turkish Manufacturing Industries pp. 461-475

Erol Taymaz and Gülin Saatci

Volume 8, issue 3, 1997

On the Consistency of Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Monotone and Concave Production Frontiers pp. 239-246

Bharat Sarath and Ajay Maindiratta

The Structure of Production in the Norwegian Fish-Processing Industry: An Empirical Multi-Output Cost Analysis Using a Hybrid Translog Functional Form pp. 247-267

Anders Toft and Trond Bjørndal

A Stochastic Frontier Production Function with Flexible Risk Properties pp. 269-280

G. Battese, Alicia Rambaldi and Guanghua Wan

Scale Efficiency in Canadian Trust Companies pp. 281-292

Jon Breslaw and James McIntosh

Sources of Sectoral Growth in an Economy Wide Context: The Case of U.S. Agriculture pp. 293-310

Munisamy Gopinath and Terry Roe

Volume 8, issue 2, 1997

Towards a General Managerial Framework for Performance Measurement: A Comprehensive Highway Maintenance Application pp. 127-149

Paul Rouse, Martin Putterill and David Ryan

Weak Axiom of Cost Dominance: A Nonparametric Test of Cost Efficiency Without Input Quantity Data pp. 151-165

Subhash Ray

Pitfalls of Normal-Gamma Stochastic Frontier Models pp. 167-182

Christian Ritter and Leopold Simar

Linear Programming Models for the Measurement of Environmental Performance of Firms—Concepts and Empirical Results pp. 183-197

Daniel Tyteca

Manorial Efficiency in Domesday England pp. 199-213

John McDonald

On the Role of Weight Restrictions in Data Envelopment Analysis pp. 215-230

Francisco Pedraja-Chaparro, Javier Salinas-Jimenez and Peter Smith

Volume 8, issue 1, 1997

On the Technically Efficient Organization of an Industry: A Study of U.S. Airlines pp. 5-18

Subhash Ray and Xiaowen Hu

Bootstrapping Confidence Intervals for Linear Programming Efficiency Scores: With an Illustration Using Italian Banking Data pp. 19-33

Gary Ferrier and Joseph Hirschberg

Decomposition of Technological Change and Factor Bias in Indian Power Sector: An Unbalanced Panel Data Approach pp. 35-52

Anjana Bhattacharyya, Arunava Bhattacharyya and Krishna Mitra

Business Sector Production in the Short and Long Run in Israel pp. 53-69

Michael Beenstock

A General Method of Deriving the Inefficiencies of Banks from a Profit Function pp. 71-93

Jalal Akhavein, P. Swamy, Stephen Taubman and Rao Singamsetti

A Graph-Type Extension of Farrell Technical Efficiency Measure pp. 95-110

W. Briec