Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2025

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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

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