Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2025

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

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Volume 53, issue 3, 2020

Hypothesis testing in nonparametric models of production using multiple sample splits pp. 287-303

Leopold Simar and Paul Wilson

Performance analysis for three pillars of sustainability pp. 305-320

Jean-Philippe Boussemart, Hervé Leleu, Zhiyang Shen and Vivian Valdmanis

Do manufacturing entrepreneurs in Australia have (or develop) a productivity advantage? pp. 321-338

Sasan Bakhtiari

Probabilistic frontier regression model for multinomial ordinal type output data pp. 339-354

Meena Badade and T. V. Ramanathan

Operational efficiency vs clinical safety, care appropriateness, timeliness, and access to health care pp. 355-375

Diogo Cunha Ferreira, Alexandre Morais Nunes and Rc Marques

Evaluating the efficiency of municipalities in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity pp. 377-390

Jose M. Cordero, Cristina Polo and Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

Volume 53, issue 2, 2020

Assessing the productivity consequences of agri-environmental practices when adoption is endogenous pp. 141-162

A. Bostian Aj, Moriah B. Bostian, Marita Laukkanen and Antti Simola

Estimating efficiency effects in a panel data stochastic frontier model pp. 163-180

Satya Paul and Sriram Shankar

Insights from machine learning for evaluating production function estimators on manufacturing survey data pp. 181-225

José Luis Preciado Arreola, Daisuke Yagi and Andrew Johnson

Productivity change in the privatized water sector in China (1999–2006) pp. 227-241

Jinjin Zhao

Non-structural and structural models in productivity analysis: study of the British Isles during the 2007–2009 financial crisis pp. 243-263

Binlei Gong and Robin Sickles

ICT labor, software usage, and productivity: firm-level evidence from Turkey pp. 265-285

Huseyin Tastan and Feride Gönel

Volume 53, issue 1, 2020

Introduction to APPC-2018, a Special Issue of the Journal of Productivity Analysis, “Novel Applications of Efficiency and Productivity Analyses in the Asia-Pacific Region” pp. 1-3

Jeong-Dong Lee and Almas Heshmati

The importance of research teams with diverse backgrounds: Research collaboration in the Journal of Productivity Analysis pp. 5-19

Hyundo Choi and Dong-hyun Oh

Estimation of technical change and TFP growth based on observable technology shifters pp. 21-36

Almas Heshmati and Masoomeh Rashidghalam

Measures of industry productivity change: the case of thermal electricity generation in Chinese provinces 2000–2014 pp. 37-52

Finn R. Førsund and Ke Wang

Efficiency of New Zealand’s District Health Boards at Providing Hospital Services: A stochastic frontier analysis pp. 53-68

Nan Jiang and Antony Andrews

Spatiotemporal analysis of Korean ginseng farm productivity pp. 69-78

Heesun Jang, Hyunhee Kim and Hojeong Park

TFP change and its components for Swedish manufacturing firms during the 2008–2009 financial crisis pp. 79-93

Pontus Mattsson, Jonas Månsson and William H. Greene

A novel decomposition of aggregate total factor productivity change pp. 95-105

Bert Balk

How to survive and compete: the impact of information asymmetry on productivity pp. 107-123

Man Jin, Huiting Tian and Subal Kumbhakar

Allocation of resources within subgroups of an industry: a case study in the Chinese industrial sector pp. 125-139

Chun-kei Tsang and Sung-ko Li

Volume 52, issue 1, 2019

Government assistance and total factor productivity: firm-level evidence from China pp. 1-27

Richard Harris and Shengyu Li

Evaluating the CDF of the distribution of the stochastic frontier composed error pp. 29-35

Christine Amsler, Peter Schmidt and Wen-Jen Tsay

The effects of access to credit on productivity: separating technological changes from changes in technical efficiency pp. 37-55

Nusrat Jimi, Plamen Nikolov, Mohammad Malek and Subal Kumbhakar

Farm size, inefficiency, and rice production cost in China pp. 57-68

Xiaoheng Zhang, Xiaohua Yu, Xu Tian, Xianhui Geng and Yingheng Zhou

A dynamic stochastic frontier model with threshold effects: U.S. bank size and efficiency pp. 69-84

Pavlos Almanidis, Mustafa Karakaplan and Levent Kutlu

Technological change, technological catch-up and export orientation: evidence from Latin American Countries pp. 85-100

Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

Volume 51, issue 2, 2019

Model averaging estimators for the stochastic frontier model pp. 91-103

Christopher Parmeter, Alan T. K. Wan and Xinyu Zhang

Measuring the efficiency of European education systems by combining Data Envelopment Analysis and Multiple-Criteria Evaluation pp. 105-124

Tommaso Agasisti, Giuseppe Munda and Ralph Hippe

Examining irrigation productivity in U.S. agriculture using a single-factor approach pp. 125-136

Eric Njuki and Boris E. Bravo-Ureta

Disaggregation for efficiency analysis pp. 137-151

Barnabé Walheer

Profit efficiency and earnings quality: Evidence from the Spanish banking industry pp. 153-174

Diego Prior, Emili Tortosa-Ausina, Maria García-Alcober and Manuel Illueca

Stochastic frontier models with correlated effects pp. 175-187

Giannis Karagiannis and Magnus Kellermann

Volume 51, issue 1, 2019

Estimation of inefficiency in stochastic frontier models: a Bayesian kernel approach pp. 1-19

Guohua Feng, Chuan Wang and Xibin Zhang

Robust stochastic frontier analysis: a Student’s t-half normal model with application to highway maintenance costs in England pp. 21-38

Phill Wheat, Alexander Stead and William Greene

Technology Gap and Managerial Efficiency: A Comparison between Islamic and Conventional Banks in MENA pp. 39-53

Mohamed Chaffai and M. Kabir Hassan

Benchmarking service quality in the urban water industry pp. 55-72

Jayanath Ananda and Nicholas Pawsey

Efficiency of hospitals in the Czech Republic: Conditional efficiency approach pp. 73-89

Camilla Mastromarco, Lenka Stastna and Jana Votapkova

Volume 50, issue 3, 2018

Reconciling the Porter hypothesis with the traditional paradigm about environmental regulation: a nonparametric approach pp. 85-100

Jean-Pierre Huiban, Camilla Mastromarco, Antonio Musolesi and Michel Simioni

Stochastic frontier models with network selectivity pp. 101-116

William Horrace and Hyunseok Jung

Estimation of technical change and price elasticities: a categorical time–varying coefficient approach pp. 117-138

Guohua Feng, Jiti Gao and Xiaohui Zhang

Stochastic non-smooth envelopment of data for multi-dimensional output pp. 139-154

Julia Schaefer and Marcel Clermont

Heterogeneous spillovers among Spanish provinces: a generalized spatial stochastic frontier model pp. 155-173

Alberto Gude, Inmaculada Álvarez and Luis Orea

Volume 50, issue 1, 2018

Estimation and testing of stochastic frontier models using variational Bayes pp. 1-24

Gholamreza Hajargasht and William Griffiths

Lasting lending relationships and technical efficiency. Evidence on European SMEs pp. 25-40

Mariarosaria Agostino, Sabrina Ruberto and Francesco Trivieri

Dynamic stochastic analysis of the farm subsidy-efficiency link: evidence from France pp. 41-54

Jean Joseph Minviel and Timo Sipiläinen

DEA target setting using lexicographic and endogenous directional distance function approaches pp. 55-70

Sebastián Lozano and Narges Soltani

A decomposition of US business sector TFP growth into technical progress and cost efficiency components pp. 71-84

Walter Diewert and Kevin Fox

Volume 49, issue 2, 2018

Management in production: from unobserved to observed pp. 111-121

Thomas Triebs and Subal Kumbhakar

An iterative approach to the estimation of the abatement costs of harmful emissions pp. 123-136

Alexandre Repkine and Dongki Min

Estimation of cost efficiency without cost data pp. 137-151

Levent Kutlu and Ran Wang

Application of a bias-corrected meta-frontier approach and an endogenous switching regression to analyze the technical efficiency of conservation tillage for wheat in South Asia pp. 153-171

Sreejith Aravindakshan, Frederick Rossi, T. S. Amjath-Babu, Prakashan Chellattan Veettil and Timothy J. Krupnik

Modelling spatial regimes in farms technologies pp. 173-185

Anna Gloria Billé, Cristina Salvioni and R. Benedetti

Misallocation, productivity and fragmentation of production: the case of Latvia pp. 187-206

Konstantins Benkovskis

Volume 49, issue 1, 2018

Using DEA for measuring teachers’ performance and the impact on students’ outcomes: evidence for Spain pp. 1-15

Daniel Santín and Gabriela Sicilia

Technological inefficiency indexes: a binary taxonomy and a generic theorem pp. 17-23

R. Robert Russell and William Schworm

Managerial and program inefficiency for European meat manufacturing firms: A dynamic multidirectional inefficiency analysis approach pp. 25-36

Magdalena Kapelko and Alfons Oude Lansink

Estimation of the two-tiered stochastic frontier model with the scaling property pp. 37-47

Christopher Parmeter

A cost efficiency analysis of the insurance industry in Mexico pp. 49-64

Ana María Reyna and Hugo J. Fuentes

Persistent and transient cost efficiency—an application to the Swiss hydropower sector pp. 65-77

Massimo Filippini, Thomas Geissmann and William Greene

Cost Malmquist productivity index: an output-specific approach for group comparison pp. 79-94

Barnabé Walheer

Technology catching-up and regulation in European regions pp. 95-109

Francisco Javier Escribá-Pérez and María José Murgui-García