Journal of Productivity Analysis

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Volume 37, issue 3, 2012

Introduction pp. 203-204

Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf and Dimitris Margaritis

Technological change and timing reductions in greenhouse gas emissions pp. 205-216

Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Dimitri Margaritis and William Weber

The measurement of productivity in the nonmarket sector pp. 217-229

Walter Diewert

Imputing output prices for non-market production units: a comment pp. 231-232

Bert Balk

Dual allocative efficiency parameters pp. 233-238

Rolf Färe and Daniel Primont

Boundary problems with the “Russell” graph measure of technical efficiency: a refinement pp. 239-248

Steven Levkoff, R. Russell and William Schworm

Problems with (dis)aggregating productivity, and another productivity paradox pp. 249-259

Kevin Fox

Categorical and continuous non-discretionary variables in data envelopment analysis: a comparison of two single-stage models pp. 261-276

Julie Harrison, Paul Rouse and Jamie Armstrong

Profit efficiency in the European Union banking industry: a directional technology distance function approach pp. 277-293

Anastasia Koutsomanoli-Filippaki, Dimitris Margaritis and Christos Staikouras

Firm efficiency and stock returns pp. 295-306

Bart Frijns, Dimitris Margaritis and Maria Psillaki

Volume 37, issue 2, 2012

Rates of return to public agricultural research in 48 US states pp. 95-113

Alejandro Plastina and Lilyan Fulginiti

The examination of pseudo-allocative and pseudo-overall efficiencies in DEA using shadow prices pp. 115-123

Joseph Paradi and Fai Tam

Corporate R&D and firm efficiency: evidence from Europe’s top R&D investors pp. 125-140

Subal Kumbhakar, Raquel Ortega-Argiles, Lesley Potters, Marco Vivarelli and Peter Voigt

On the cost-reducing effects of embodied technical progress: a panel study of the steel industry in Japan pp. 141-153

Shuzo Ueda and Kazuo Ogawa

Explaining firms efficiency in the Ivorian manufacturing sector: a robust nonparametric approach pp. 155-169

Nolwenn Roudaut and Anne Vanhems

Efficiency and technological change at US research universities pp. 171-186

Jeremy Foltz, Bradford Barham, Jean-Paul Chavas and Kwansoo Kim

The need for speed: impacts of internet connectivity on firm productivity pp. 187-201

Arthur Grimes, Cleo Ren and Philip Stevens

Volume 37, issue 1, 2012

Revolution, evolution, or status quo? Guidelines for efficiency measurement in health care pp. 1-5

Bruce Hollingsworth

Adjustment and unobserved heterogeneity in dynamic stochastic frontier models pp. 7-16

Grigorios Emvalomatis

A dual measure of correlation between the Solow residual and output growth pp. 17-25

Dandan Liu, Rui Li and Jijun Tan

Estimation of cost inefficiency in panel data models with firm specific and sub-company specific effects pp. 27-40

Andrew Smith and Phill Wheat

A micro-econometric analysis of the role of R&D spillovers using a nonlinear translog specification pp. 41-58

Paola Cardamone

Capital use intensity and productivity biases pp. 59-71

Matthew Andersen, Julian Alston and Philip Pardey

Efficiency of the Indian leather firms: some results obtained using the two conventional methods pp. 73-93

Anup Bhandari and Pradip Maiti

Volume 36, issue 3, 2011

Corporate social responsibility and firm efficiency: a latent class stochastic frontier analysis pp. 231-246

Leonardo Becchetti and Giovanni Trovato

Consolidation in the European banking industry: how effective is it? pp. 247-261

Ana Lozano-Vivas, Subal Kumbhakar, Meryem Fethi and Mohamed Shaban

Assessing bankruptcy prediction models via information content of technical inefficiency pp. 263-273

Ruey-Ching Hwang, Jhao-Siang Siao, Huimin Chung and C. Chu

Bayesian clustering of distributions in stochastic frontier analysis pp. 275-283

Jim Griffin

Benchmarking and industry performance pp. 285-292

Thijs ten Raa

Multifactor productivity and its determinants: an empirical analysis for Mexican manufacturing pp. 293-308

Héctor Salgado Banda and Lorenzo Bernal-Verdugo

Volume 36, issue 2, 2011

Analysing the lobby-effect of port competitiveness’ determinants: a stochastic frontier approach pp. 113-123

Elvira Haezendonck, Julien van den Broeck and Tim Jans

The R&D and productivity relationship of Korean listed firms pp. 125-142

Almas Heshmati and Hyesung Kim

Properties of inefficiency indexes on 〈input, output〉 space pp. 143-156

R. Russell and William Schworm

Introduction to the symposium of presentations from the Plenary Sessions of the 2010 North American Productivity Workshop pp. 157-158

C. Lovell and Robin Sickles

Information technology and U.S. productivity growth: evidence from a prototype industry production account pp. 159-175

Dale Jorgenson, Mun Ho and Jon Samuels

Measuring productivity in the public sector: some conceptual problems pp. 177-191

Walter Diewert

History lessons pp. 193-200

W. Cooper and C. Lovell

One-step and two-step estimation in SFA models pp. 201-203

Peter Schmidt

Two-stage DEA: caveat emptor pp. 205-218

Leopold Simar and Paul Wilson

One-stage estimation of the effects of operational conditions and practices on productive performance: asymptotically normal and efficient, root-n consistent StoNEZD method pp. 219-230

Andrew Johnson and Timo Kuosmanen

Volume 36, issue 1, 2011

Stochastic FDH/DEA estimators for frontier analysis pp. 1-20

Leopold Simar and Valentin Zelenyuk

Parametric decomposition of the input-oriented Malmquist productivity index: with an application to Greek aquaculture pp. 21-31

Christos Pantzios, Giannis Karagiannis and Vangelis Tzouvelekas

Inference by the m out of n bootstrap in nonparametric frontier models pp. 33-53

Leopold Simar and Paul Wilson

Innovation and export activities in the German mechanical engineering sector: an application of testing restrictions in production analysis pp. 55-69

Torben Schubert and Leopold Simar

The Solow residual, Domar aggregation, and inefficiency: a synthesis of TFP measures pp. 71-77

Thijs ten Raa and Victoria Shestalova

Elasticities of substitution and complementarity pp. 79-89

David Stern

Public infrastructure as a determinant of productive performance in China pp. 91-111

Wim Vijverberg, Feng-Cheng Fu and Chu-Ping Vijverberg

Volume 35, issue 3, 2011

Costly external finance, reallocation, and aggregate productivity pp. 181-195

Shuyun Li

A cross-country comparison of productivity growth using the generalised metafrontier Malmquist productivity index: with application to banking industries in Taiwan and China pp. 197-212

Ku-Hsieh Chen and Hao-Yen Yang

Big and beautiful? On non-parametrically measuring scale economies in non-convex technologies pp. 213-226

Kristof De Witte and Rc Marques

Public utility planning and cost efficiency in a decentralized regulation context: the case of the Italian integrated water service pp. 227-242

Graziano Abrate, Fabrizio Erbetta and Giovanni Fraquelli

Measuring efficiency under fixed proportion technologies pp. 243-262

Darold Barnum and John Gleason

A note on testing for complementarity and substitutability in the case of multiple practices pp. 263-269

Martin Carree, Boris Lokshin and Rene Belderbos

Volume 35, issue 2, 2011

BAM: a bounded adjusted measure of efficiency for use with bounded additive models pp. 85-94

William Cooper, Jesus Pastor, Fernando Borras, Juan Aparicio and Diego Pastor

Goodness of fit tests in stochastic frontier models pp. 95-118

Wei Siang Wang, Christine Amsler and Peter Schmidt

A multi-product cost function for physician private practices pp. 119-128

Timothy Gunning and Robin Sickles

Semiparametric deconvolution with unknown error variance pp. 129-141

William Horrace and Christopher Parmeter

Measuring technical and allocative efficiencies for banks in the transition countries using the Fourier flexible cost function pp. 143-157

Tai-Hsin Huang, Chung-Hua Shen, Kuan-Chen Chen and Shen-Ju Tseng

Sector fragmentation and aggregation of service provision in the water industry pp. 159-169

Maria Corton

The fundraising efficiency in U.S. non-profit art organizations: an application of a Bayesian estimation approach using the stochastic frontier production model pp. 171-180

Seongho Song and David Yi

Volume 35, issue 1, 2011

Introduction pp. 1-3

Harold Fried and Robert Simmons

Productivity drivers and market dynamics in the Spanish first division football league pp. 5-13

Carlos Barros and Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio

Temporal variations in technical efficiency: evidence from German soccer pp. 15-24

Bernd Frick and Young Hoon Lee

From college to the pros: predicting the NBA amateur player draft pp. 25-35

David Berri, Stacey Brook and Aju Fenn

Catching a draft: on the process of selecting quarterbacks in the National Football League amateur draft pp. 37-49

David Berri and Rob Simmons

Is the small-ball strategy effective in winning games? A stochastic frontier production approach pp. 51-59

Young Hoon Lee

Pay, productivity and aging in Major League Baseball pp. 61-74

Jahn Hakes and Chad Turner

The impact of age on the ability to perform under pressure: golfers on the PGA tour pp. 75-84

Harold Fried and Loren Tauer