Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2025

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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

Volume 40, issue 3, 2013

Introduction to the special issue pp. 251-255

Jesus Pastor, Juan Aparicio and Luis Orea

The directional profit efficiency measure: on why profit inefficiency is either technical or allocative pp. 257-266

José Zofío, Jesus Pastor and Juan Aparicio

Directional output distance functions: endogenous directions based on exogenous normalization constraints pp. 267-269

R. Färe, Shawna Grosskopf and G. Whittaker

Weight restrictions in DEA: misplaced emphasis? pp. 271-283

Finn Førsund

Modeling CRS bounded additive DEA models and characterizing their Pareto-efficient points pp. 285-292

Jesus Pastor, Juan Aparicio, Juan Monge and Diego Pastor

Estimation and inference in parametric deterministic frontier models pp. 293-305

Christine Amsler, Michael Leonard and Peter Schmidt

Estimation and decomposition of inefficiency when producers maximize return to the outlay: an application to Norwegian fishing trawlers pp. 307-321

Subal Kumbhakar, Frank Asche and Ragnar Tveterås

An econometric approach to estimating support prices and measures of productivity change in public hospitals pp. 323-335

C. O’Donnell and K. Nguyen

Incorporating quality into the measurement of hospital efficiency: a double DEA approach pp. 337-355

Gary Ferrier and Julie Trivitt

The response of decentralized health services to demand uncertainty and the role of political parties in the Spanish public health system pp. 357-365

Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez, David Roibás and Alan Wall

Is foreign-bank efficiency in financial centers driven by home or host country characteristics? pp. 367-385

Claudia Curi, Paolo Guarda, Ana Lozano-Vivas and Valentin Zelenyuk

An examination of the cost efficiency of banks in Taiwan and China using the metafrontier cost function pp. 387-406

Mei-Ying Huang and Tsu-Tan Fu

How efficiently do U.S. cities manage roadway congestion? pp. 407-428

Anthony Glass, Karligash Kenjegalieva and Robin Sickles

Efficiency and stock returns: evidence from the insurance industry pp. 429-442

Chrysovalantis Gaganis, Iftekhar Hasan and Fotios Pasiouras

Productivity decline in Australian coal mining pp. 443-455

C. Lovell and J. Lovell

A shadow distance function decomposition of the environmental Kuznets curve: comparing the South China Sea and the Caribbean pp. 457-472

Roberto Mosheim

Volume 40, issue 2, 2013

Polarization of the worldwide distribution of productivity pp. 153-171

Oleg Badunenko, Daniel Henderson and R. Russell

Maximizing public value for subsidized non-profit firms: a mathematical economic model pp. 173-183

Jos Blank

Identifying bank outputs and inputs with a directional technology distance function pp. 185-195

Paolo Guarda, Abdelaziz Rouabah and Michael Vardanyan

The scale of hospital production in different settings: one size does not fit all pp. 197-206

Mette Asmild, Bruce Hollingsworth and Stephen Birch

Market imperfections, trade reform and total factor productivity growth: theory and practices from India pp. 207-218

Dibyendu Maiti

Lower bound of cost efficiency measure in DEA with incomplete price information pp. 219-226

Lei Fang and Hecheng Li

Estimation of the threshold stochastic frontier model in the presence of an endogenous sample split variable pp. 227-237

Hung-pin Lai

Returns to scope: a metric for production synergies demonstrated for hospital production pp. 239-250

Brandon Pope and Andrew Johnson

Volume 40, issue 1, 2013

Maximum likelihood estimation of seemingly unrelated stochastic frontier regressions pp. 1-14

Hung-pin Lai and Cliff Huang

Globalisation and technological convergence in the EU pp. 15-29

Camilla Mastromarco, Laura Serlenga and Yongcheol Shin

Labor productivity and vocational training: evidence from Europe pp. 31-41

Hector Sala and José Silva

Testing the Porter hypothesis: the effects of environmental investments on efficiency in Swedish industry pp. 43-56

Thomas Broberg, Per-Olov Marklund, Eva Samakovlis and Henrik Hammar

Multilateral productivity comparisons and homotheticity pp. 57-65

Antonio Peyrache

Dynamics of productivity in higher education: cross-european evidence based on bootstrapped Malmquist indices pp. 67-82

Aleksandra Parteka and Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz

Determinants and strategies for the development of container terminals pp. 83-98

Francesca Medda and Qianwen Liu

Decomposing multifactor productivity in Italy from 1998 to 2004: evidence from large firms and SMEs using DEA pp. 99-109

Carlo Milana, Leopoldo Nascia and Alessandro Zeli

Ageing and employability. Evidence from Belgian firm-level data pp. 111-136

Vincent Vandenberghe, Fábio Waltenberg and M. Rigo

Performance assessments of Taiwan’s financial holding companies pp. 137-151

Yu-Pei Hsu and Kuo-An Li