Journal of Productivity Analysis

1989 - 2025

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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

Volume 39, issue 3, 2013

Production under uncertainty: a simulation study pp. 207-215

Sriram Shankar and John Quiggin

Regulation and cost efficiency in the European railways industry pp. 217-230

Miguel Urdánoz and Catherine Vibes

Structural breaks, rural transformation and total factor productivity growth in China pp. 231-242

Kefei You and Nicholas Sarantis

Environmental externalities and regulation constrained cost productivity growth in the US electric utility industry pp. 243-257

Gerald Granderson and Diego Prior

A simple closed-form approximation for the cumulative distribution function of the composite error of stochastic frontier models pp. 259-269

Wen-Jen Tsay, Cliff Huang, Tsu-Tan Fu and I.-Lin Ho

Count data stochastic frontier models, with an application to the patents–R&D relationship pp. 271-284

Eduardo Fé and Richard Hofler

Estimating production frontiers and efficiency when output is a discretely distributed economic bad pp. 285-302

Eduardo Fé

Output complexity, environmental conditions, and the efficiency of municipalities pp. 303-324

Maria Balaguer-Coll, Diego Prior and Emili Tortosa-Ausina

Volume 39, issue 2, 2013

Investigating the impact of endogeneity on inefficiency estimates in the application of stochastic frontier analysis to nursing homes pp. 101-110

Ryan Mutter, William Greene, William Spector, Michael Rosko and Dana Mukamel

Evaluating food retailers using dual elasticities of substitution pp. 111-122

Timothy Park and Johannes Sauer

The effect of labor supply changes on output: empirical evidence from US industries pp. 123-130

Gokhan Akay and Can Dogan

Do temporary agency workers affect workplace performance? pp. 131-138

Alex Bryson

Editorial pp. 139-140

Meryem Fethi, Fotios Pasiouras and Constantin Zopounidis

Efficiency, productivity, and scale economies in the U.S. property-liability insurance industry pp. 141-164

John Cummins and Xiaoying Xie

Mergers and Acquisitions in European banking higher productivity or better synergy among business lines? pp. 165-175

Rym Ayadi, Jean-Philippe Boussemart, Hervé Leleu and Dhafer Saidane

An assessment of Portuguese banks’ efficiency and productivity towards euro area participation pp. 177-190

Miguel Boucinha, Nuno Ribeiro and Thomas Weyman-Jones

Accounting for heterogeneous technologies in the banking industry: a time-varying stochastic frontier model with threshold effects pp. 191-205

Pavlos Almanidis

Volume 39, issue 1, 2013

Assessing the evolution of school performance and value-added: trends over four years pp. 1-14

M. Portela, A. Camanho and A. Keshvari

Measuring performance, development and growth when restricting flexibility pp. 15-25

Kristin Roll

Data aggregation in stochastic frontier models: the closed skew normal distribution pp. 27-34

B Brorsen and Taeyoon Kim

Estimating the impact on efficiency of the adoption of a voluntary environmental standard: an empirical study of the global copper mining industry pp. 35-45

Lise Tole and Gary Koop

Seasonality, consumer heterogeneity and price indexes: the case of prepackaged software pp. 47-59

Adam Copeland

Further model-based estimates of US total manufacturing production capital and technology, 1949–2005 pp. 61-73

Baoline Chen and Peter Zadrozny

Another approach for estimating RTS in dynamic DEA pp. 75-81

Majid Soleimani-damaneh

Measuring scale efficiency from a parametric hyperbolic distance function pp. 83-88

Daehoon Nahm and Ha Vu

Performance trends in the construction industry worldwide: an overview of the turn of the century pp. 89-99

I. Horta, A. Camanho, Jill Johnes and Geraint Johnes