Efficiency Series Papers

From University of Oviedo, Department of Economics, Oviedo Efficiency Group (OEG)
Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad de Oviedo, Avenida del Cristo, s/n. 33006 Oviedo - SPAIN.
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2024/01: A multisector growth model for testing the Tourism-Led Growth versus the Beach Disease hypotheses

Roberto Balado-Naves, David Boto-García and José Francisco Baños-Pino

2023/06: Residential water demand: Gender differences in water consumption

Roberto Balado-Naves and Sara Suarez-Fernandez

2023/05: Economic, Environmental, and Energy Equity Convergence: Evidence of a Multi-Speed Europe?

Manuel Llorca and Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez

2023/04: Fitting spatial stochastic frontier models in Stata

Kerui Du, Luis Orea and Inmaculada Álvarez

2023/03: How institutions shape the economic returns of public investment in European regions

Inmaculada Álvarez, Javier Barbero, Luis Orea and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

2023/02: Assessing environmental profiles: An analysis of water consumption and waste recycling habits

Marian Garcia-Valiñas, Fernando Arbués and Roberto Balado-Naves

2023/01: Efficiency, perceived prices, and household water demand: A stochastic frontier analysis for the Spanish city of Gijón

Roberto Balado-Naves, Marian Garcia-Valiñas and David Roibas

2022/04: TFP growth, embeddedness, and Covid-19: a novel production model that allows estimating trade elasticities

André Carrascal and Luis Orea

2022/03: Estimating the dynamic effects of volcano eruptions on domestic tourism: Evidence based on mobile-phone geo-positioning records

David Boto-Garcia and Veronica Leoni

2022/02: Binary endogenous treatment in stochastic frontier models with an application to soil conservation in El Salvador

Samuele Centorrino, María Pérez-Urdiales, Boris Bravo-Ureta and Alan Wall

2022/01: The Structural and Productivity Effects of Infrastructure Provision in Developed and Developing Countries

Luis Orea, Inmaculada Álvarez and Luis Servén

2021/08: Management accounting practices and performance in organic farms. The link to local development

Beatriz García-Cornejo, José A. Pérez-Méndez, Alan Wall and David Castrillo Cachón

2021/07: Contribution of management accounting practices to the efficiency of organic farms

Beatriz García-Cornejo, José A. Pérez-Méndez, Alan Wall and David Castrillo Cachón

2021/05: Does land consolidation promote livestock production and combat rural depopulation? A multi-cohort multi-treatment Difference-in-Difference analysis of parishes in northern Spain

Luis Orea, José A. Pérez-Méndez and Inmaculada Álvarez

2021/04: Is it MOLS or COLS?

Christopher Parmeter

2021/03: Persistence and dynamics in the efficiency of toll motorways: The Spanish case

José F. Baños-Pino, David Boto-García and Emma Zapico

2021/02: Electricity Sector Reform Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Parametric Distance Function Approach

Adwoa Adwoa Asantewaa, Tooraj Jamasb and Manuel Llorca

2021/01: Estimating the propagation of the COVID-19 virus with a stochastic frontier approximation of epidemiological models: a panel data econometric model with an application to Spain

Luis Orea, Inmaculada Álvarez and Alan Wall

2020/02: How effective has been the Spanish lockdown to battle COVID-19? A spatial analysis of the coronavirus propagation across provinces

Luis Orea and Inmaculada Álvarez

2020/01: Managing power supply interruptions: a bottom-up spatial (frontier) model with an application to a Spanish electricity network

Pablo Argüelles and Luis Orea

2019/06: Spatial Production Economics

Luis Orea and Inmaculada Álvarez

2019/05: Network Utilities Performance and Institutional Quality: Evidence from the Italian Electricity Sector

Golnoush Soroush, Carlo Cambini, Tooraj Jamasb and Manuel Llorca

2019/04: Rural and agricultural development by land consolidation: a spatial production analysis of Asturias´ parishes

Inmaculada Álvarez, Luis Orea and José Pérez-Méndez

2019/03: Does Specialization Affect the Efficiency of Small-Scale Fishing Boats?

Antonio Alvarez, Lorena Couce and Lourdes Trujillo

2019/02: The Econometric Measurement of Firms’ Efficiency

Luis Orea

2019/01: Effects of inter-industry and spatial spillovers on regional productivity: Evidence from Spanish panel data

Inmaculada Álvarez, Alberto Gude and Luis Orea

2018/05: Infrastructure, resource allocation and productivity growth: a mutually consistent decomposition of inter and intra-industry productivity effects

Luis Orea

2018/04: Utilities Governance, Incentives, and Performance: Evidence from the Water Sector in India

Sai Amulya Nyathikala, Tooraj Jamasb, Manuel Llorca and Mukul Kulshrestha Kulshrestha

2018/03: Institutions and Performance of Regulated Firms: Evidence from Electric Utilities in the Indian States

Tooraj Jamasb, Manuel Llorca, Pavan Khetrapal and Tripta Thakur

2017/05: A primer on the theory and practice of efficiency and productivity analysis

Luis Orea and José Zofío

2017/04: A new stochastic frontier model with cross-sectional effects in both noise and inefficiency terms

Luis Orea and Inmaculada Álvarez

2017/03: Heterogeneous spillovers among Spanish provinces: A generalized spatial stochastic frontier model

Alberto Gude, Inmaculada Álvarez and Luis Orea

2017/02: Wage Frontiers in Pre & Post-Crisis Spain: Implications for Welfare and Inequality

Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez and Joanna M. Bashford-Fernández

2017/01: Revisiting the Decomposition of Cost Efficiency for Non-homothetic Technologies: A Directional Distance Function Approach

Juan Aparicio and José Zofío

2016/07: Matching frontiers: A random parameter model approach

José Baños, Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez and Patricia Suárez

2016/06: A spatial approach to control for unobserved environmental conditions when measuring firms’ technology: an application to Norwegian electricity distribution networks

Luis Orea, Inmaculada Álvarez and Tooraj Jamasb

2016/05: Animal health indicators and technical efficiency in milk production: A stochastic frontier analysis for Spanish dairy farms

Jose Antonio Pérez, David Roibás and Alan Wall

2016/04: Long run effect of public grants on the R&D investment: A non-stationary panel data approach

Inmaculada Álvarez, Chihwa Kao and Desiderio Romero-Jordán

2016/03: Energy efficiency and rebound effect in European road freight transport

Manuel Llorca and Tooraj Jamasb

2016/02: A spatial autoregressive panel model to analyze road network spillovers on production

Inmaculada Álvarez, Javier Barbero and José Zofío

2016/01: Modelling the effect of crime on economic activity: The case of Mexican states

Antonio Alvarez, Rafael Garduño Rivera and Héctor Núñez

2015/02: A parametric frontier model for measuring eco-efficiency

Luis Orea and Alan Wall

2015/01: Physical versus economic depletion of a nonrenewable natural resource

Xosé A. Rodríguez, Carlos Arias and Ana Rodríguez-González

2014/04: A latent class approach for estimating energy demands and efficiency in transport: An application to Latin America and the Caribbean

Manuel Llorca, José Baños, José Somoza and Pelayo Arbués

2014/03: Identifying efficient regulated firms with unobserved technological heterogeneity: A nested latent class approach to Norwegian electricity distribution networks

Luis Orea and Tooraj Jamasb

2014/02: The influence of meteorological conditions on dairy production

David Roibás, Alan Wall and José A. Pérez

2014/01: Measuring energy efficiency and rebound effects using a stochastic demand frontier approach: the US residential energy demand

Luis Orea, Manuel Llorca and Massimo Filippini

2013/08: Evaluating the double effect of land fragmentation on technology choice and dairy farm productivity: A latent class model approach

Luis Orea, Jose A. Pérez and David Roibás

2013/07: Determinants of ground transport modal choice in long-distance trips in Spain

Pelayo González, José Baños, Matías Mayor and Patricia Suárez

2013/06: Spatial productivity of road transportation infrastructure

Pelayo Arbués, Matías Mayor and José Baños