Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2026

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

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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

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