Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2025

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

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Volume 42, issue 3, 2014

Explaining efficiency in municipal services providers pp. 225-239

Bernardino Benito, José Solana and Maria del Rocio Moreno Enguix

A new approach to estimating the metafrontier production function based on a stochastic frontier framework pp. 241-254

Cliff Huang, Tai-Hsin Huang and Nan-Hung Liu

Directed technological change, skill complementarities and sectoral productivity growth: evidence from industrialized countries during the new economy pp. 255-275

Thomas Strobel

Under pressure: community water systems in the United States—a production model with water quality and organization type effects pp. 277-292

Roberto Mosheim

Returns to scale effect in labour productivity growth pp. 293-304

Hideyuki Mizobuchi

A firm level perspective on migration: the role of extra-EU workers in Italian manufacturing pp. 305-325

Giulia Bettin, Alessia Lo Turco and Daniela Maggioni

State productivity growth in agriculture: catching-up and the business cycle pp. 327-338

V. Ball, Carlos San-Juan-Mesonada and Camilo Ulloa

Significant drivers of growth in Africa pp. 339-354

Oleg Badunenko, Daniel Henderson and Romain Houssa

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. 355-366

Kimitaka Nishitani, Shinji Kaneko, Satoru Komatsu and Hidemichi Fujii

Volume 42, issue 2, 2014

Assessing the productivity of the Italian hospitality sector: a post-WDEA pooled-truncated and spatial analysis pp. 103-121

Claudio Detotto, Manuela Pulina and Juan Brida

Closed-skew normality in stochastic frontiers with individual effects and long/short-run efficiency pp. 123-136

Roberto Colombi, Subal Kumbhakar, Gianmaria Martini and Giorgio Vittadini

On the robustness of R&D pp. 137-155

Kul Luintel, Mosahid Khan and Konstantinos Theodoridis

Estimating farmers’ productive and marketing inefficiency: an application to vegetable producers in Benin pp. 157-169

Alphonse Singbo, Alfons Oude Lansink and Grigorios Emvalomatis

A note on the assumed distributions in stochastic frontier models pp. 171-173

Aljar Meesters

Distance optimization approach to ratio-form efficiency measures in data envelopment analysis pp. 175-186

Hirofumi Fukuyama, Hiroya Masaki, Kazuyuki Sekitani and Jianming Shi

Exploring reallocation’s apparent weak contribution to growth pp. 187-210

Mitsukuni Nishida, Amil Petrin and Sašo Polanec

Efficiency measurement when producers control pollutants: a non-parametric approach pp. 211-223

Kenneth Rødseth

Volume 42, issue 1, 2014

The real exchange rate and the structure of aggregate production pp. 1-13

Ulrich Kohli and Jean-Marc Natal

Scale efficiency and homotheticity: equivalence of primal and dual measures pp. 15-24

Valentin Zelenyuk

Firm efficiency, industry performance and the economy: three-way decomposition with an application to Andalusia pp. 25-34

Antonio Amores and Thijs ten Raa

Dissecting aggregate output and labour productivity change pp. 35-43

Bert Balk

Stochastic frontier models with threshold efficiency pp. 45-54

Sungwon Lee and Young Lee

Understanding prediction intervals for firm specific inefficiency scores from parametric stochastic frontier models pp. 55-65

Phill Wheat, William Greene and Andrew Smith

Estimation and efficiency measurement in stochastic production frontiers with ordinal outcomes pp. 67-84

William Griffiths, Xiaohui Zhang and Xueyan Zhao

Bayesian estimation of inefficiency heterogeneity in stochastic frontier models pp. 85-101

Jorge Galan, Helena Veiga and Michael Wiper

Volume 41, issue 3, 2014

Does recession drive convergence in firms’ productivity? Evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms pp. 339-349

Alvaro Escribano and Rodolfo Stucchi

Estimating scale economies in financial intermediation: a doubly indirect inference pp. 351-365

Mokhtar Kouki, Sang Soo Park and Eric Renault

Measuring the effect of Kyoto protocol agreement on countries’ environmental efficiency in CO 2 emissions: an application of conditional full frontiers pp. 367-382

George Halkos and Nickolaos Tzeremes

The economic performance of Swiss drinking water utilities pp. 383-397

Anne-Kathrin Faust and Andrea Baranzini

Human capital contributions to explain productivity differences pp. 399-417

Konstantinos Chatzimichael and Vangelis Tzouvelekas

Technological spillovers and productivity in Italian manufacturing firms pp. 419-434

Giuseppe Medda and Claudio Piga

Hicks-Moorsteen versus Malmquist: a connection by means of a radial productivity index pp. 435-442

Antonio Peyrache

Intangible investment in people and productivity pp. 443-456

Pekka Ilmakunnas and Hannu Piekkola

Separating environmental efficiency into production and abatement efficiency: a nonparametric model with application to US power plants pp. 457-473

Benjamin Hampf

Volume 41, issue 2, 2014

Guest editors’ introduction pp. 173-174

Tsu-Tan Fu, Cliff Huang and C. Lovell

Development pattern of the DEA research field: a social network analysis approach pp. 175-186

Jeong-Dong Lee, Chulwoo Baek, Ho-Sung Kim and Jin-Seok Lee

Econometric estimation of distance functions and associated measures of productivity and efficiency change pp. 187-200

C. O’Donnell

Australia’s mining productivity decline: implications for MFP measurement pp. 201-212

Simon Zheng and Harry Bloch

Scale and scope economies of Japanese private universities revisited with an input distance function approach pp. 213-226

Jiro Nemoto and Noriko Furumatsu

Globalisation, industrial diversification and productivity growth in large European R&D companies pp. 227-246

Michele Cincera and Julien Ravet

Decomposing the change in profit of Taiwanese banks: incorporating risk pp. 247-262

Jia-Ching Juo

Rate of return regulation and the Le Chatelier principle pp. 263-275

Gerald Granderson and Finn Førsund

Incentive regulation and performance measurement of Taiwan’s incineration plants: an application of the four-stage DEA method pp. 277-290

Po-Chi Chen, Ching-Cheng Chang and Chih-Li Lai

Efficiency and productivity in the Thai non-life insurance industry pp. 291-306

Saowaros Yaisawarng, Preecha Asavadachanukorn and Suthathip Yaisawarng

Consistent estimation of technical and allocative efficiencies for a semiparametric stochastic cost frontier with shadow input prices pp. 307-320

Tai-Hsin Huang, Kuan-Chen Chen, Chien-Hsiu Lin and Ming-Tai Chung

Technical efficiency in competing panel data models: a study of Norwegian grain farming pp. 321-337

Subal Kumbhakar, Gudbrand Lien and J. Hardaker

Volume 41, issue 1, 2014

In Memoriam: Catherine Morrison Paul, 1953–2010 pp. 1-2

Lilyan Fulginiti

Productivity, price recovery, capacity constraints and their financial consequences pp. 3-17

Emili Grifell-Tatje and C. Lovell

US TFP growth and the contribution of changes in export and import prices to real income growth pp. 19-39

Walter Diewert

Productivity accounting for separable technologies pp. 41-50

Robert Chambers, Giannis Karagiannis and Vangelis Tzouvelekas

Reviewing the literature on non-parametric dynamic efficiency measurement: state-of-the-art pp. 51-67

Saeideh Fallah-Fini, Konstantinos Triantis and Andrew Johnson

A metafrontier directional distance function approach to assessing eco-efficiency pp. 69-83

Mercedes Beltrán-Esteve, José Gómez-Limón, Andres Picazo-Tadeo and Ernest Reig-Martínez

The StoNED age: the departure into a new era of efficiency analysis? A monte carlo comparison of StoNED and the “oldies” (SFA and DEA) pp. 85-109

Mark Andor and Frederik Hesse

Estimation and inference under economic restrictions pp. 111-129

Christopher Parmeter, Kai Sun, Daniel Henderson and Subal Kumbhakar

Technical efficiency with state-contingent production frontiers using maximum entropy estimators pp. 131-140

Pedro Macedo, Elvira Silva and Manuel Scotto

Market conditions and the effect of diversification on mutual fund performance: should funds be more concentrative under crisis? pp. 141-151

Jin-Li Hu, Tzu-Pu Chang and Ray Chou

Does school ownership matter? An unbiased efficiency comparison for regions of Spain pp. 153-172

Eva Crespo-Cebada, Francisco Pedraja-Chaparro and Daniel Santín