Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2025

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

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Volume 48, issue 2, 2017

Minority owned banks and efficiency revisited pp. 97-116

Russell Kashian, Richard McGregory and Robert Drago

A new method to decompose profit efficiency: an application to US commercial banks pp. 117-132

Diego Restrepo-Tobon and Subal Kumbhakar

Revisiting the decomposition of cost efficiency for non-homothetic technologies: a directional distance function approach pp. 133-146

Juan Aparicio and José Zofío

Exponential environmental productivity index and indicators pp. 147-166

Arnaud Abad and P. Ravelojaona

A superlative index number formula for the Hicks-Moorsteen productivity index pp. 167-178

Hideyuki Mizobuchi

Productivity and efficiency at bank holding companies in the U.S.: a time-varying heterogeneity approach pp. 179-192

Guohua Feng, Bin Peng and Xiaohui Zhang

Schooling and productivity growth: evidence from a dual growth accounting application to U.S. states pp. 193-221

Bibhudutta Panda

Volume 48, issue 1, 2017

Efficiency assessment of Portuguese municipalities using a conditional nonparametric approach pp. 1-24

Jose M. Cordero, Francisco Pedraja-Chaparro, Elsa C. Pisaflores and Cristina Polo

Derivation of netput shadow prices under different levels of pest pressure pp. 25-34

Theodoros Skevas and Teresa Serra

Erratum to: Derivation of netput shadow prices under different levels of pest pressure pp. 35-35

Theodoros Skevas and Teresa Serra

Technical efficiency with multi-output, heterogeneous production: a latent class, distance function model of english football pp. 37-50

R. Todd Jewell

Modelling generalized firms’ restructuring using inverse DEA pp. 51-61

Gholam R. Amin, Ali Emrouznejad and Said Gattoufi

Productivity indexes under Hicks neutral technical change pp. 63-68

Hideyuki Mizobuchi

Government secondary school finances in New South Wales: accounting for students’ prior achievements in a two-stage DEA at the school level pp. 69-83

Alfred Haug and Vincent C. Blackburn

An intertemporal efficiency and technology measurement for tourist hotel pp. 85-96

Hsiao-Yin Chen, Chin-wei Huang and Yung-Ho Chiu

Volume 47, issue 3, 2017

Introduction to the APPC2014 special issue pp. 185-187

Antonio Peyrache and Valentin Zelenyuk

Nonparametric least squares methods for stochastic frontier models pp. 189-204

Leopold Simar, Ingrid Keilegom and Valentin Zelenyuk

Nonparametric estimation of the determinants of inefficiency pp. 205-221

Christopher Parmeter, Hung-Jen Wang and Subal Kumbhakar

Sources of airline productivity from carbon emissions: an analysis of operational performance under good and bad outputs pp. 223-246

Boon Lee, Clevo Wilson, Carl Pasurka, Hidemichi Fujii and Shunsuke Managi

Accounting for risk in productivity analysis: an application to Norwegian dairy farming pp. 247-257

Gudbrand Lien, Subal Kumbhakar and J. Brian Hardaker

Regulatory incentives to water losses reduction: the case of England and Wales pp. 259-276

Humberto Brea-Solis, Sergio Perelman and David Saal

Impact of ICT on the productivity of the firm: evidence from Turkish manufacturing pp. 277-289

Yilmaz Kilicaslan, Robin Sickles, Aliye Atay Kayış and Yeşim Üçdoğruk Gürel

The contribution of research and innovation to productivity pp. 291-308

Amani Elnasri and Kevin Fox

Volume 47, issue 2, 2017

Measuring the impact of the economic crisis on the level of change in EU social inclusion: period 2005–2012 pp. 103-116

Nicky Rogge

Measuring and analysing productivity change in a metafrontier framework pp. 117-128

C. J. O’Donnell, Saeideh Fallah-Fini and Konstantinos Triantis

Environmental regulations and allocative efficiency: application to coal-to-gas substitution in the U.S. electricity sector pp. 129-142

Kenneth Løvold Rødseth

Incorporating temporal and country heterogeneity in growth accounting—an application to EU-KLEMS pp. 143-166

A. Peyrache and Alicia Rambaldi

Immigration and productivity: a Spanish tale pp. 167-183

Alicia Gómez–Tello and Rosella Nicolini

Volume 47, issue 1, 2017

Technical efficiency for Colombian small crop and livestock farmers: A stochastic metafrontier approach for different production systems pp. 1-16

Ligia Alba Melo-Becerra and Antonio José Orozco-Gallo

Measuring input-specific productivity change based on the principle of least action pp. 17-31

Juan Aparicio, Magdalena Kapelko, Bernhard Mahlberg and Jose L. Sainz-Pardo

Who benefits from job placement services? A two-sided analysis pp. 33-47

German Blanco

The ‘wrong skewness’ problem: a re-specification of stochastic frontiers pp. 49-64

Graziella Bonanno, Domenico De Giovanni and Filippo Domma

Regional energy efficiency and its determinants in China during 2001–2010: a slacks-based measure and spatial econometric analysis pp. 65-81

Kangjuan Lv, Anyu Yu and Yiwen Bian

An international comparison of educational systems: a temporal analysis in presence of bad outputs pp. 83-101

Víctor Giménez, Claudio Thieme, Diego Prior and Emili Tortosa-Ausina

Volume 46, issue 2, 2016

Multi-directional productivity change: MEA-Malmquist pp. 109-119

Mette Asmild, Tomas Baležentis and Jens Hougaard

Comparison of production risks in the state-contingent framework: application to balanced panel data pp. 121-138

Kota Minegishi

The role of pest pressure in technical and environmental inefficiency analysis of Dutch arable farms: an event-specific data envelopment approach pp. 139-153

Theodoros Skevas and Teresa Serra

Measuring productivity and efficiency: a Kalman filter approach pp. 155-167

Meryem Duygun, Levent Kutlu and Robin Sickles

Productivity effects of knowledge transfers through labour mobility pp. 169-184

Neil Foster-McGregor and Johannes Pöschl

Bounded learning-by-doing and sources of firm level productivity growth in colombian food manufacturing industry pp. 185-197

Apurba Shee and Spiro Stefanou

The spillover effects of foreign direct investment on the firms’ productivity performances pp. 199-233

Dyah Wulan Sari, Noor Aini Khalifah and Suyanto Suyanto

The inter-industry employment effects of technological change pp. 235-248

Aykut Lenger

Volume 46, issue 1, 2016

Radar scanning the world production frontier pp. 1-13

Jens Krüger

Leontief was not right after all pp. 15-24

Eric O’N. Fisher and Kathryn G. Marshall

Bank efficiency measures, M&A decision and heterogeneity pp. 25-41

Stefano Caiazza, Alberto Pozzolo and Giovanni Trovato

How does the age structure of worker flows affect firm performance? pp. 43-62

Pekka Ilmakunnas and Mika Maliranta

Does knowledge spill over across borders and technology regimes? pp. 63-82

J. Bos, Bertrand Candelon and Claire Economidou

Modified fixed effects estimation of technical inefficiency pp. 83-86

Daniel Wikström

Benchmarking for routines and organizational knowledge: a managerial accounting approach with performance feedback pp. 87-107

Mircea Epure

Volume 45, issue 3, 2016

Productivity spillovers of organization capital pp. 229-245

Wen Chen and Robert Inklaar

Migration, local off-farm employment, and agricultural production efficiency: evidence from China pp. 247-259

Jin Yang, Hui Wang, Songqing Jin, Kevin Chen, Jeffrey Riedinger and Chao Peng

Study of optimal capital adequacy ratios pp. 261-274

Yang Li, Yi-Kai Chen, Feng Sheng Chien, Wen Chih Lee and Yi Ching Hsu

Evaluating the impact of the Bologna Process on the efficiency convergence of Italian universities: a non-parametric frontier approach pp. 275-298

Calogero Guccio, Marco Ferdinando Martorana and Luisa Monaco

The impact of participation within formal standardization on firm performance pp. 317-330

Paul Wakke, Knut Blind and Florian Ramel

Volume 45, issue 2, 2016

A note on parameterizing input distance functions: does the choice of a functional form matter? pp. 121-130

Rolf Färe and Michael Vardanyan

The determinants of productivity in Chinese large and medium-sized industrial firms, 1998–2007 pp. 131-155

Sai Ding, Alessandra Guariglia and Richard Harris

The determinants of productivity in Chinese large and medium-sized industrial firms, 1998–2007 pp. 131-155

Sai Ding, Alessandra Guariglia and Richard Harris

Can human capital variables be technology changing? An empirical test for rural households in Burkina Faso pp. 157-172

Fleur Wouterse

Can human capital variables be technology changing? An empirical test for rural households in Burkina Faso pp. 157-172

Fleur Wouterse

Estimating economies of scale and scope with flexible technology pp. 173-186

Thomas Triebs, David Saal, Pablo Arocena and Subal Kumbhakar

Estimating economies of scale and scope with flexible technology pp. 173-186

Thomas Triebs, David Saal, Pablo Arocena and Subal Kumbhakar

Persistent and transient productive inefficiency: a maximum simulated likelihood approach pp. 187-196

Massimo Filippini and William Greene

Exploring cost dominance in crop farming systems between high and low pesticide use pp. 197-214

Jean-Philippe Boussemart, Hervé Leleu and Oluwaseun Ojo

Economies of scale in Peru’s water and sanitation sector pp. 215-228

Augusto Mercadier, Walter A. Cont and Gustavo Ferro

Economies of scale in Peru’s water and sanitation sector pp. 215-228

Augusto Mercadier, Walter Cont and Gustavo Ferro

Volume 45, issue 1, 2016

Innovation spillovers and firm performance: micro evidence from Spain (2004–2009) pp. 1-22

Esther Goya, Esther Vayá and Jordi Suriñach

Multi-directional program efficiency: the case of Lithuanian family farms pp. 23-33

Mette Asmild, Tomas Baležentis and Jens Hougaard

Estimating alternative technology sets in nonparametric efficiency analysis: restriction tests for panel and clustered data pp. 35-51

Anne Neumann, Maria Nieswand and Torben Schubert

Estimating alternative technology sets in nonparametric efficiency analysis: restriction tests for panel and clustered data pp. 35-51

Anne Neumann, Maria Nieswand and Torben Schubert

Semiparametric stochastic metafrontier efficiency of European manufacturing firms pp. 53-69

Marijn Verschelde, Michel Dumont, Glenn Rayp and Bruno Merlevede

Semiparametric stochastic metafrontier efficiency of European manufacturing firms pp. 53-69

Marijn Verschelde, Michel Dumont, Glenn Rayp and Bruno Merlevede

Composition versus decomposition in two-stage network DEA: a reverse approach pp. 71-87

Dimitris Despotis, Gregory Koronakos and Dimitrios Sotiros

A theory of intra-firm group design pp. 89-102

Semih Tumen

Efficiency and regulation: a comparison of dairy farms in Ontario and New York State pp. 103-115

Peter Slade and Getu Hailu

Dissecting aggregate output and labour productivity change: a postscript on the role of relative prices pp. 117-119

Jesus Dumagan and Bert Balk