Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2025

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

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Volume 57, issue 3, 2022

The shadow prices of CO2, SO2 and NOx for U.S. coal power industry 2010–2017: a convex quantile regression method pp. 243-253

Shirong Zhao and Guangshun Qiao

The structure of production technologies with ratio inputs and outputs pp. 255-267

Ole Bent Olesen, Niels Christian Petersen and Victor V. Podinovski

Exploring hospital efficiency within and between Italian regions: new empirical evidence pp. 269-284

Cristian Barra, Raffaele Lagravinese and Roberto Zotti

Goodness--of--fit tests for stochastic frontier models based on the characteristic function pp. 285-296

Simos G. Meintanis and Christos K. Papadimitriou

Energy intensity improvement and energy productivity changes: an analysis of BRICS and G7 countries pp. 297-311

Ching-Ren Chiu, Ming-Chung Chang and Jin-Li Hu

Elasticity measurement on multiple levels of DEA frontiers: an application to agriculture pp. 313-324

Seda Busra Sarac, Kazim Baris Atici and Aydin Ulucan

Volume 57, issue 2, 2022

Nonparametric measurement of potential gains from mergers: an additive decomposition and application to Indian bank mergers pp. 115-130

Subhash Ray and Shilpa Sethia

Measuring and comparing World Bank regions’ ‘ease of doing business’ opportunity sets pp. 131-155

Nicky Rogge and Alena Kolyaseva

Environmental efficiency measurement when producers control pollutants under heterogeneous conditions: a generalization of the materials balance approach pp. 157-176

Andreas Eder

Technical progress and induced innovation in China: a variable profit function approach pp. 177-191

K. K. Gary Wong, Belton Fleisher, Min Qiang (Kent) Zhao and William H. McGuire

The choice of efficiency benchmarking metric in evaluating firm productivity and viability pp. 193-211

S. C. West, A. W. Mugera and R. S. Kingwell

Technical efficiency and firm heterogeneity in stochastic frontier models: application to smallholder maize farms in Ethiopia pp. 213-241

Ali M. Oumer, Amin Mugera, Michael Burton and Atakelty Hailu

Volume 57, issue 1, 2022

Decomposition of technical efficiency under fixed proportion technologies: an application of data envelopment analysis pp. 1-22

Viera Mendelová

Evidence from shadow price of equity on “Too-Big-to-Fail” Banks pp. 23-40

Paul Wilson and Shirong Zhao

Crop yield convergence across districts in India’s poorest state pp. 41-59

Rishabh Sinha

A generalization of environmental productivity analysis pp. 61-78

A. Abad and P. Ravelojaona

Efficiency measurement of higher education units using multilevel frontier analysis pp. 79-92

Abolghasem Naderi

Capital and labor misallocation in the Netherlands pp. 93-113

Maurice J.G. Bun and Jasper Winter

Volume 56, issue 2, 2021

Heterogeneity in frontier analysis: does it matter for benchmarking farms? pp. 69-84

Elizabeth Ahikiriza, Jef Meensel, Xavier Gellynck and Ludwig Lauwers

Modeling dependence in two-tier stochastic frontier models pp. 85-101

Alecos Papadopoulos, Christopher Parmeter and Subal Kumbhakar

Density deconvolution with Laplace errors and unknown variance pp. 103-113

Jun Cai, William Horrace and Christopher Parmeter

Changes in the productive efficiency of U.S. flour mills in the late nineteenth century: an input-distance-function approach pp. 115-132

Yongseung Han, Arthur Snow and Ronald Warren

Quadratic-mean-of-order-r indexes of output, input and productivity pp. 133-138

Hideyuki Mizobuchi and Valentin Zelenyuk

Vertical integration vs. specialization: a nonparametric conditional efficiency estimate for the global semiconductor industry pp. 139-150

Guangshun Qiao and Zhan-ao Wang

Estimation of bank performance from multiple perspectives: an alternative solution to the deposit dilemma pp. 151-170

Dan Li, Yanfeng Li, Yeming Gong and Jiawei Yang

Volume 56, issue 1, 2021

From micro to macro: a note on the analysis of aggregate productivity dynamics using firm-level data pp. 1-14

Daniel Dias and Carlos Marques

Farm and non-farm labor decisions and household efficiency pp. 15-31

Dimitris Christopoulos, Margarita Genius and Vangelis Tzouvelekas

Estimation and efficiency evaluation of stochastic frontier models with interval dependent variables pp. 33-44

Shih-Tang Hwu, Tsu-Tan Fu and Wen-Jen Tsay

Optimal solutions of multiplier DEA models pp. 45-68

Victor V. Podinovski and Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva

Volume 55, issue 3, 2021

Symposium Overview pp. 155-155

William H. Greene, Robert G. Chambers and Victor Podinovski

Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs pp. 157-175

Finn R. Førsund

A commentary on “Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs” by Finn Førsund pp. 177-184

Sushama Murty and R. Robert Russell

Comment: Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs pp. 185-188

F. Ang and K. H. Dakpo

Comments: Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs pp. 189-193

Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf

Rejoinders to the comments on my paper “Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs” pp. 195-201

Finn R. Førsund

Volume 55, issue 2, 2021

Resource allocation in multi-divisional multi-product firms pp. 47-70

Binlei Gong and Robin Sickles

Latent heterogeneity to evaluate the effect of human capital on world technology frontier pp. 71-89

Camilla Mastromarco and Leopold Simar

The closest strong efficient targets in the FDH technology: an enumeration method pp. 91-105

J. Vakili and R. Sadighi Dizaji

On aggregation of multi-factor productivity indexes pp. 107-133

Rolf Färe and Valentin Zelenyuk

World agricultural convergence pp. 135-153

Lingran Yuan, Shurui Zhang, Shuo Wang, Zesen Qian and Binlei Gong

Volume 55, issue 1, 2021

A new family of copulas, with application to estimation of a production frontier system pp. 1-14

Christine Amsler, Artem Prokhorov and Peter Schmidt

Stochastic frontier models using the Generalized Exponential distribution pp. 15-29

Alecos Papadopoulos

The sensitivity of efficiency scores to input and other choices in stochastic frontier analysis: an empirical investigation pp. 31-40

Quang Nguyen, Sean Pascoe, Louisa Coglan and Hong Son Nghiem

Estimation of costs of technical and allocative inefficiency pp. 41-46

Subal Kumbhakar and Mike Tsionas

Volume 54, issue 2, 2020

Knowledge accumulation in US agriculture: research and learning by doing pp. 87-105

Sansi Yang and C. Shumway

A solution to log of dependent variables with negative observations pp. 107-119

Mustafa Karakaplan, Levent Kutlu and Mike Tsionas

Immigration and firm productivity: evidence from the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database pp. 121-137

Wulong Gu, Feng Hou and Garnett Picot

A semiparametric stochastic input distance frontier model with application to the Indonesian banking industry pp. 139-156

Kai Sun and Ruhul Salim

Volume 54, issue 1, 2020

Size and productivity: a conditional approach for Italian pharmaceutical sector pp. 1-12

Pierluigi Toma

Distance functions, bank output, and productivity pp. 13-26

David B. Humphrey

Modeling the effect of competition on US manufacturing sectors’ efficiency: an order-m frontier analysis pp. 27-41

Michael Polemis, Thanasis Stengos and Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

Efficiency measurement for general network systems: a slacks-based measure model pp. 43-57

Victor John M. Cantor and Kim Leng Poh

A non-parametric investigation of supply side factors and healthcare efficiency in the U.S pp. 59-74

Richard Gearhart and Nyakundi Michieka

Unknown latent structure and inefficiency in panel stochastic frontier models pp. 75-86

Levent Kutlu, Kien Tran and Mike Tsionas