Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2026

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

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Volume 59, issue 3, 2023

A generalized flexible functional form for α-returns to scale pp. 217-224

Hideyuki Mizobuchi and Valentin Zelenyuk

Sources of productivity growth in Eastern Europe and Russia before the global financial crisis pp. 225-241

Ilya Voskoboynikov

Spatial and cross-sectoral input spillover effects: the case of the Italian tourism industry pp. 243-258

Silvia Emili and Federica Galli

Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models pp. 259-279

Inmaculada Álvarez, Luis Orea and Alan Wall

Addition and aggregative efficiency pp. 281-285

Rolf Färe and Giannis Karagiannis

Does joining the European monetary union improve labor productivity? A synthetic control approach pp. 287-306

Hong Zhuang, Miao Grace Wang, Imre Ersoy and Mesut Eren

Volume 59, issue 2, 2023

Firm heterogeneity, worker training and labor productivity: the role of endogenous self-selection pp. 121-133

Sizhong Sun

Semi-parametric modelling of inefficiencies in stochastic frontier analysis pp. 135-152

Giovanni Forchini and Raoul Theler

Analyzing the land and labour productivity of farms producing renewable energy: the Italian case study pp. 153-172

Antonella Basso and Maria Bruna Zolin

Proper modelling of industrial production systems with unintended outputs: a different perspective pp. 173-188

Harald Dyckhoff

Further improvements of finite sample approximation of central limit theorems for envelopment estimators pp. 189-194

Leopold Simar, Valentin Zelenyuk and Shirong Zhao

Trade for catch-up: examining how global value chains participation affects productive efficiency pp. 195-215

Gideon Ndubuisi and Solomon Owusu

Volume 59, issue 1, 2023

Is newer always better? A reinvestigation of productivity dynamics using updated PWT data pp. 1-13

Yan Meng, Christopher F. Parmeter and Valentin Zelenyuk

Measuring heterogeneity in hospital productivity: a quantile regression approach pp. 15-43

Galina Besstremyannaya and Sergei Golovan

Assessing environmentally sensitive productivity growth: incorporating externalities and heterogeneity into water sector evaluations pp. 45-60

Jayanath Ananda and Dong-hyun Oh

Capacity utilization change over time pp. 61-78

Yao-yao Song, Xian-tong Ren and Guo-liang Yang

Regularized conditional estimators of unit inefficiency in stochastic frontier analysis, with application to electricity distribution market pp. 79-97

Zangin Zeebari, Kristofer Månsson, Pär Sjölander and Magnus Söderberg

Environmental information disclosure and firm production: evidence from the estimated efficiency of publicly listed firms in China pp. 99-119

Yunguo Lu and Lin Zhang

Volume 58, issue 2, 2022

Do Egocentric information networks influence technical efficiency of farmers? Empirical evidence from Ghana pp. 109-128

Sadick Mohammed and Awudu Abdulai

A general equilibrium assessment of COVID-19's labor productivity impacts on china's regional economies pp. 129-150

Xi He, Edward Balistreri, Gyu Hyun Kim and Wendong Zhang

The empirics of granular origins: some challenges and solutions with an application to the UK pp. 151-170

Nikola Dacic and Marko Melolinna

Extending the zero-sum gains data envelopment analysis model pp. 171-184

Thanasis Bouzidis and Giannis Karagiannis

Cross-country agricultural TFP convergence and capital deepening: evidence for induced innovation from 17 OECD countries pp. 185-202

Yu Sheng, V. Eldon Ball, Kenneth Erickson and Carlos San Juan Mesonada

In search for the most preferred solution in value efficiency analysis pp. 203-220

Panagiotis Ravanos and Giannis Karagiannis

Aggregate productivity and inefficient cropping patterns in Uganda pp. 221-237

Bruno Morando

Assessing total factor productivity across Africa: an empirical investigation pp. 239-253

Zhiyang Shen and Vivian Valdmanis

Volume 58, issue 1, 2022

Persistent and transient inefficiency in a spatial autoregressive panel stochastic frontier model pp. 1-13

Hung-pin Lai and Kien Tran

The productivity growth of euro area banks pp. 15-33

Ivan Huljak, Reiner Martin and Diego Moccero

Model uncertainty and efficiency measurement in stochastic frontier analysis with generalized errors pp. 35-54

Kamil Makieła and Błażej Mazur

Stochastic vs. deterministic frontier distance output function: Evidence from Brazilian higher education institutions pp. 55-74

Ariel Gustavo Letti, Mauricio Bittencourt and Luis E. Vila

Global Malmquist and cost Malmquist indexes for group comparison pp. 75-93

Barnabé Walheer

Investment Inefficiency and Corporate Social Responsibility pp. 95-108

Tadesse Getacher Engida, Christopher Parmeter, Xudong Rao and Alfons G.J.M. Oude Lansink

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