Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2024

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

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Volume 44, issue 3, 2015

Guest editor’s introduction pp. 221-223

Suthathip Yaisawarng

Climate policy, environmental performance, and profits pp. 225-235

Tommy Lundgren and Per-Olov Marklund

How a regulatory capital requirement affects banks’ productivity: an application to emerging economies pp. 237-248

Meryem Duygun, Mohamed Shaban, Robin Sickles and Thomas Weyman-Jones

Measuring Japanese bank performance: a dynamic network DEA approach pp. 249-264

Hirofumi Fukuyama and William Weber

Monitoring bank performance in the presence of risk pp. 265-281

Mircea Epure and Esteban Lafuente

Financing sources and firm level productivity growth: evidence from Indian manufacturing pp. 283-292

Sourafel Girma and Dev Vencappa

The competitiveness and development strategies of provinces in China: a data envelopment analysis approach pp. 293-307

Sung Li and Long Zhao

A Monte Carlo study on multiple output stochastic frontiers: a comparison of two approaches pp. 309-320

Geraldine Henningsen, Arne Henningsen and Uwe Jensen

Metafrontier cost Malmquist productivity index: an application to Taiwanese and Chinese commercial banks pp. 321-335

Mei-Ying Huang, Jia-Ching Juo and Tsu-tan Fu

A comparison of the technical efficiency of accounting firms among the US, China, and Taiwan under the framework of a stochastic metafrontier production function pp. 337-349

Bao-Guang Chang, Tai-Hsin Huang and Chun-Yi Kuo

Volume 44, issue 2, 2015

Primal and dual multi-output flexibility measures pp. 127-136

Swetlana Renner, Thomas Glauben, Heinrich Hockmann and Pierre Ouellette

Cone ratio models with shared resources and nontransparent allocation parameters in network DEA pp. 137-155

Jingjing Ding, Chenpeng Feng, Gongbing Bi, Liang Liang and M. Khan

Measuring the evolution of Korea’s material living standards 1980–2012 pp. 157-173

Taehyoung Cho, Junghoon Kim and Paul Schreyer

The dynamics of ICT adaptation and the productivity gaps across advanced nations pp. 175-188

Tero Kuusi

The impact of inefficiency on diversification pp. 189-198

Alfons Oude Lansink, Spiro Stefanou and Magdalena Kapelko

Stochastic frontiers with a Rayleigh distribution pp. 199-208

Gholamreza Hajargasht

A post-truncation parameterization of truncated normal technical inefficiency pp. 209-220

Christine Amsler, Peter Schmidt and Wen-Jen Tsay

Volume 44, issue 1, 2015

Plant-level determinants of total factor productivity in Great Britain, 1997–2008 pp. 1-20

Richard Harris and John Moffat

The dynamics of productivity in Swiss universities pp. 21-38

Thomas Bolli and Mehdi Farsi

Technical efficiency and technological gap of New Zealand dairy farms: a stochastic meta-frontier model pp. 39-49

Nan Jiang and Basil Sharp

Adjustment costs and efficiency in Polish agriculture: a dynamic efficiency approach pp. 51-68

Supawat Rungsuriyawiboon and Heinrich Hockmann

An entrepreneur performance index pp. 69-77

Harold Fried and Loren Tauer

The impact of R&D and knowledge diffusion on the productivity of manufacturing firms in Turkey pp. 79-95

Hulya Ulku and Mehmet Pamukçu

Consolidating the water industry: an analysis of the potential gains from horizontal integration in a conditional efficiency framework pp. 97-114

Michael Zschille

Analysing the effectiveness of public service producers with endogenous resourcing pp. 115-126

David Mayston

Volume 43, issue 3, 2015

In Memoriam: Lennart Hjalmarsson, 1944–2012 pp. 233-236

Subal Kumbhakar and Finn Førsund

Are distance measures effective at measuring efficiency? DEA meets the vintage model pp. 237-248

Constantin Belu

Foreign aid and productivity pp. 249-258

Ann Veiderpass

On structural and average technical efficiency pp. 259-267

Giannis Karagiannis

Productivity of tax offices in Norway pp. 269-279

Finn Førsund, Dag Edvardsen and Sverre Kittelsen

Decomposing the productivity differences between hospitals in the Nordic countries pp. 281-293

Sverre Kittelsen, Benny Winsnes, Kjartan Anthun, Fanny Goude, Øyvind Hope, Unto Häkkinen, Birgitte Kalseth, Jannie Kilsmark, Emma Medin, Clas Rehnberg and Hanna Rättö

Scale economies, technical change and efficiency in Norwegian electricity distribution, 1998–2010 pp. 295-305

Subal Kumbhakar, Roar Amundsveen, Hilde Kvile and Gudbrand Lien

The effects of efficiency and TFP growth on pollution in Europe: a multistage spatial analysis pp. 307-326

Morakinyo Adetutu, Anthony Glass, Karligash Kenjegalieva and Robin Sickles

Are all firms inefficient? pp. 327-349

Seunghwa Rho and Peter Schmidt

Financial center productivity and innovation prior to and during the financial crisis pp. 351-365

Claudia Curi and Ana Lozano-Vivas

Decompositions of productivity growth into sectoral effects pp. 367-387

Walter Diewert

Sources of productivity spillovers: panel data evidence from China pp. 389-402

Badi Baltagi, Peter Egger and Michaela Kesina

Broad breeding goals and production costs in dairy farming pp. 403-415

Daniel Atsbeha, Dadi Kristofersson and Kyrre Rickertsen

Volume 43, issue 2, 2015

Game, set and match: evaluating the efficiency of male professional tennis players pp. 119-131

Anthony Glass, Karligash Kenjegalieva and Jason Taylor

Moments of the truncated normal distribution pp. 133-138

William Horrace

Centralized or decentralized control of school resources? A network model pp. 139-150

Shawna Grosskopf, Kathy Hayes, Lori Taylor and William Weber

Terminal units in DEA: definition and determination pp. 151-164

Vladimir Krivonozhko, Finn Førsund and Andrey Lychev

Productivity and economic output of the education sector pp. 165-182

Wulong Gu and Ambrose Wong

Conditional technology spillovers from foreign direct investment: evidence from Indian manufacturing industries pp. 183-198

Sanjaya Malik

Categorical data in local maximum likelihood: theory and applications to productivity analysis pp. 199-214

Byeong Park, Leopold Simar and Valentin Zelenyuk

Closed-form solution for a bivariate distribution in stochastic frontier models with dependent errors pp. 215-223

Emilio Gómez-Déniz and Jorge Pérez-Rodríguez

The half-normal specification for the two-tier stochastic frontier model pp. 225-230

Alecos Papadopoulos

Erratum to: How does a firm’s management of greenhouse gas emissions influence its economic performance? Analyzing effects through demand and productivity in Japanese manufacturing firms pp. 231-231

Kimitaka Nishitani, Shinji Kaneko, Satoru Komatsu and Hidemichi Fujii

Volume 43, issue 1, 2015

The contribution of physical and human capital accumulation to Italian regional growth: a nonparametric perspective pp. 1-12

Simone Gitto and Paolo Mancuso

Crime in India: specification and estimation of violent crime index pp. 13-28

Kausik Chaudhuri, Payel Chowdhury and Subal Kumbhakar

A finite sample improvement of the fixed effects estimator applied to technical inefficiency pp. 29-46

Daniel Wikström

Bonus compensation and productivity: evidence from Indian manufacturing plant-level data pp. 47-58

Natalie Chun and Soohyung Lee

Nonparametric analysis of technology and productivity under non-convexity: a neighborhood-based approach pp. 59-74

Jean-Paul Chavas and Kwansoo Kim

Using ex ante output elicitation to model state-contingent technologies pp. 75-83

Robert Chambers, Teresa Serra and Spiro Stefanou

Constrained nonparametric estimation of input distance function pp. 85-97

Kai Sun

On directional scale elasticities pp. 99-104

Bert Balk, Rolf Färe and Giannis Karagiannis

Maximum likelihood estimation of the stochastic frontier model with endogenous switching or sample selection pp. 105-117

Hung-pin Lai