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22-001: Productivity Growth and Spillovers across European Industries: A Global Value Chain Perspective Based on EURO KLEMS

Weilin Liu, Qian Cheng and Robin Sickles

20-004: Measuring Productivity Growth and Technology Spillovers through Global Value Chains: An Application to a US-Sino Decoupling

Weilin Liu, Robin Sickles and Yao Zhao

20-003: The Optimal Use of Management

Robin Sickles, Kai Sun and Thomas P. Triebs

20-002: Spatial Effects of Nutrient Pollution on Drinking Water Production

Roberto Mosheim and Robin Sickles

20-001: The Agency Problem Revisited: A Structural Analysis of Managerial Productivity and CEO Compensation in Large U.S. Commercial Banks

Shasha Liu and Robin Sickles

19-011: Spatial Effects of Nutrient Pollution on Drinking Water Production

Roberto Mosheim and Robin Sickles

19-010: The Agency Problem Revisited: A Structural Analysis of Managerial Productivity and CEO Compensation in Large U.S. Commercial Banks

Shasha Liu and Robin Sickles

19-009: Industry-Specific Productivity and Spatial Spillovers through input-output linkages: evidence from Asia-Pacific Value Chain

Weilin Liu and Robin Sickles

19-008: Heterogeneous Decision-Making and Market Power

Levent Kutlu, Robin Sickles and Mike Tsionas

19-007: Legislative and Multilateral Bargaining

Hulya Eraslan and Kirill Evdokimov

19-006: Tax Competition and the Efficiency of “Benefit-Related†Business Taxes

Elisabeth Gugl and George Zodrow

19-005: Empirical Surveys of Frontier Applications: A Meta-Review

Cinzia Daraio, Kristiaan Kerstens, Thyago Nepomuceno and Robin Sickles

19-004: An Overview of Issues in Measuring the Performance of National Economies

Anthony Glass, Karligash Kenjegalieva, Robin Sickles and Thomas Weyman-Jones

19-003: Resource Allocation in Multi-divisional Multi-product Firms

Binlei Gong and Robin Sickles

19-002: Estimation of Industry-level Productivity with Cross-sectional Dependence by Using Spatial Analysis

Jaepil Han and Robin Sickles

19-001: Estimating Peer Effects on Career Choice: A Spatial Multinomial Logit Approach

Bolun Li, Robin Sickles and Jenny Williams

18-012: Non-structural Analysis of Productivity Growth for the Industrialized Countries: A Jackknife Model Averaging Approach

Anders Isaksson, Chenjun Shang and Robin Sickles

18-011: Evaluating countries’ innovation potential: an international perspective

Alexandros Leontitsis, Dionisis Philippas, Robin Sickles and Panagiotis Tziogkidis

18-010: Direction Selection in Stochastic Directional Distance Functions

Gary Ferrier, Andrew Johnson, Kevin Layer and Robin Sickles

18-009: Pricing Inputs and Outputs: Market prices versus shadow prices, market power, and welfare analysis

Aditi Bhattacharyya, Levent Kutlu and Robin Sickles

18-008: Econometric Analysis of Productivity: Theory and Implementation in R

Robin Sickles, Wonho Song and Valentin Zelenyuk

18-007: Market Structures in Production Economics

Devin Garcia, Levent Kutlu and Robin Sickles

18-006: Cost, Revenue, and Profit Function Estimates

Levent Kutlu, Shasha Liu and Robin Sickles

18-005: Frontier Efficiency, Capital Structure, and Portfolio Risk: An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Banks

Dong Ding and Robin Sickles

18-004: Capital Regulation, Efficiency, and Risk Taking: A Spatial Panel Analysis of U.S. Banks

Dong Ding and Robin Sickles

18-003: The Spatial Efficiency Multiplier and Common Correlated Effects in a Spatial Autoregressive Stochastic Frontier Model

Anthony J. Glass, Karligash Kenjegalieva, Robin Sickles and Thomas Weyman-Jones

18-002: Resource Allocation in Multi-divisional Multi-product Firms

Binlei Gong and Robin Sickles

18-001: Learning While Setting Precedents

Ying Chen and Hulya Eraslan

17-002: Identification and Estimation of Large Network Games with Private Link Information

Hulya Eraslan and Xun Tang

17-001: Information Gatekeeping and Media Bias

Hulya Eraslan and Saltuk Ozerturk

16-004: Non-structural and Structural Models in Productivity Analysis: Study of the British Isles during the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis

Binlei Gong and Robin Sickles

16-003: Relative Winners and Losers from Efficiency Spillovers in Africa with Policy Implications for Regional Integration

Anthony J. Glass, Karligash Kenjegalieva, Victor Ajayi, Morakinyo Adetutu and Robin Sickles

16-002: The Spatial Efficiency Multiplier and Random Effects in Spatial Stochastic Frontier Models

Anthony J. Glass, Karligash Kenjegalieva, Robin Sickles and Thomas Weyman-Jones

16-001: Balancing Act: Weighing the Factors Affecting the Taxation of Capital Income in a Small Open Economy

Margaret McKeehan and George Zodrow

15-021: Semiparametric Estimation under Shape Constraints

Ximing Wu and Robin Sickles

15-020: The Volcano Distribution with an Application to Stock Market Returns

Michael Naaman and Robin Sickles

15-019: Productivity Measurement, Model Averaging, and World Trends in Growth and Inequality

Robin Sickles, Jiaqi Hao and Chenjun Shang

15-018: Panel Data and Productivity Measurement

Robin Sickles, Jiaqi Hao and Chenjun Shang

15-017: Impact of ICT on the Productivity of the Firm: Evidence from Turkish Manufacturing

Aliye Atay Kayis, Yesim Ucdogruk Gurel, Yilmaz Kilicaslan and Robin Sickles

15-016: Analyzing Bank Efficiency: Are "Too-Big-to-Fail" Banks Efficient?

Hulusi Inanoglu, Michael Jacobs, Jr., Junrong Liu and Robin Sickles

15-015: How to Measure Spillover Effects of Public Capital Stock: A Spatial Autoregressive Stochastic Frontier Model

Jaepil Han, Deockhyun Ryu and Robin Sickles

15-014: A Spatial Autoregressive Stochastic Frontier Model for Panel Data with Asymmetric Efficiency Spillovers

Anthony J. Glass, Karligash Kenjegalieva and Robin Sickles

15-013: Pricing Characteristics: An Application of Shepard's Dual Lemma

Rolf Fare, Shawna Grosskopf, Chenjun Shang and Robin Sickles

15-012: How Regulatory Capital Requirement Affect Banks' Productivity: An Application to Emerging Economies' Banks

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

15-011: World Productivity Growth: A Model Averaging Approach

Meryem Duygun, Jiaqi Hao, Anders Isaksson and Robin Sickles

15-010: Measuring Productivity and Efficiency: A Kalman

Meryem Duygun, Levent Kutlu and Robin Sickles

15-009: Bootstrapping Unit Root Tests with Covariates

Yoosoon Chang, Robin Sickles and Wonho Song

15-008: Semi-nonparametric Spline Modifications to the Cornwell-Schmidt-Sickles Estimator: An Analysis of U.S. Banking Productivity

Pavlos Almanidis, Giannis Karagiannis and Robin Sickles

15-007: Identification and Estimation of Preference Distributions When Voters Are Ideological

Antonio Merlo and Aureo de Paula

15-006: Banking Crises, Early Warning Models, and Efficiency

Pavlos Almanidis and Robin Sickles