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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2013/05: A dynamic approach to road freight flows modeling in Spain

Pelayo Arbués and José Baños

2013/04: Responses to changes in domestic water tariff structures: An analysis on household-level data from Granada, Spain

María Pérez, María A. García-Valiñas and Roberto Martinez-Espineira

2013/03: Using in the latent class approach as a supervised method to cluster firms in DEA: An application to the US electricity transmission industry

Manuel Llorca, Luis Orea and Michael G. Pollit

2013/02: Efficiency and environmental factors in the US electricity transmission industry

Manuel Llorca, Luis Orea and Michael G. Pollit

2013/01: Are dairy farms becoming more intensive? Impact on farm efficiency

Antonio Alvarez and Carlos Arias

2012/04: Using Supervised Environmental Composites in Production and Efficiency Analyses: An Application to Norwegian Electricity Networks

Luis Orea, Christian Growitsch and Tooraj Jamasb

2012/03: Bayesian Estimation of Inefficiency Heterogeneity in Stochastic Frontier Models

Jorge Galan, Helena Veiga and Michael P. Wiper

2012/02: Estimating Market Power in Homogenous Product Markets Using a Composed Error Model: Application to the California Electricity Market

Luis Orea and Jevgenijs Steinbuks

2012/01: Expectations with Unrealistic Optimism: An Empirical Application

Humberto Brea, Emili Grifell-Tatje and Luis Orea

2011/02: Productivity growth and its determinants in the Spanish provinces: Do within-regions differences matter?

María Pérez and Luis Orea

2011/01: A one-stage random effect counterpart of the fixed-effect vector decomposition model with an application to UK electricity distribution utilities

William Greene, Luis Orea and Alan Wall

2010/05: The Impact of Infraestructures in Provincial Production: Assesing its Dynamic Impact

David Roibás and José Baños

2010/04: Stochastic Frontiers using a Fixed-effect Vector Decomposition Approach with an Application to ICT and Regional Productivity in Spain

William Greene, Luis Orea and Alan Wall

2010/03: Estimating Marginal Cost of Quality Improvements: The Case of the UK Electricity Distribution Companies

Tooraj Jamasb, Luis Orea and Michael G. Pollit

2010/02: The impact of land fragmentation on milk production

Julio del Corral, J.A. Pérez and David Roibás

2010/01: Weather Factors and Perfomance of Network Utilities: A Methodology and Application to Electricity Distribution

Tooraj Jamasb, Luis Orea and Michael Pollitt

2009/05: Reformas regulatorias y eficiencia en el sector portuario español

Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez and Beatriz Tovar de la Fe

2009/04: Factors determining the response of hospitals to demand uncertainty

Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez, David Roibás and Alan Wall

2009/03: Legal and political barriers to entry in the Spanish retail market: a frontier approach

Luis Orea

2009/02: Entry efficiency and barriers to entry in the Spanish retail market

Luis Orea

2009/01: Studying the Impact of Managerial Activities on the Technical Efficiency of Wisconsin Dairy Farm

Julio del Corral

2008/04: Explaining Occupancy Rates in the European Railways: a Reduced-Form Approach

Luis Orea, Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez and Subal Kumbhakar

2008/03: Benchmarking and Total Factor Productivity: A Luenberger Decomposition within the Banking Sector

Mircea Epure, Kristiaan Kerstens and Diego Prior

2008/02: Imposing Weak Monotonicity on Parametric Distance Function Estimations

Sergio Perelman and Daniel Santín

2008/01: Assesing Performance in the Management of the Urban Water Cycle

Andres Picazo-Tadeo, Francisco J. Sáez-Fernández and Francisco González-Gómez

2007/06: The effects of Stochastic Demand and Expense Preference Behaviour on Public Hospital Cost and Excess Capacity

C. Lovell, Ana Rodríguez-Álvarez and Alan Wall

2007/05: Productivity and Tertiarization in Industrialized Countries. A Comparative Analysis

Andrés Maroto-Sánchez and Juan Cuadrado-Roura

2007/04: Does Intensification Help to Improve the Economic Efficiency of Dairy Farms?

Antonio Alvarez, Julio del Corral, Daniel Solis and José Antonio Pérez

2007/03: Do Performance and Environmental Conditions Behave as Barriers for Cross-Country Banking Activity in Europe?

Ana Lozano-Vivas and Jesus Pastor

2007/02: Estimating Firm-Specific Market Power: A Composed Error Term Approach

Luis Orea

2007/01: Identification of Segments of Soccer Clubs in the Spanish League First Division with a Latent Class Model

Carlos Barros, Julio del Corral and Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio

2006/06: Modeling Regional Heterogeneity with Panel Data: Application to Spanish Provinces

Antonio Alvarez and Julio del Corral

2006/05: Impact of Managerial Quality on Organizational Performance. Evidence from German Soccer

Bernd Frick and Robert Simmons

2006/04: Using Value Efficiency Analysis (VEA) to Measure Productivity Efficiency in Primary Health Care

Eduardo González Fidalgo and Vicente García

2006/03: Separating Catch-up and Technical Change in Stochastic Frontier Models. A Monte Carlo Approach

Antonio Alvarez and Julio del Corral

2006/02: An Economic Model to Evaluate the Contribution of Genetics to Milk Production

Antonio Alvarez and David Roibás

2006/01: Soil Conservation and Technical Efficiency Among Hillside Farmers in Central America: A Switching Regression Model

Daniel Solis, Boris Bravo-Ureta and Ricardo E. Quiroga

2005/07: Accounting for Unobservables in Production Models: Management and Inefficiency

Antonio Alvarez, Carlos Arias and William Greene

2005/06: The Effects of Resource Depletion on Coal Mining Productivity

Carlos Arias and Xosé Antón Rodríguez

2005/05: The Effects of Resource Depletion on Coal Mining Productivity

Carlos Arias and Xosé Antón Rodríguez

2005/04: Estimating the Productivity of Public Infrastructure using Maximum Entropy Econometrics

Jorge Rodriguez-Vález, Antonio Alvarez, Carlos Arias and Esteban Fernández Vázquez

2005/03: Interpreting and Testing the Scaling Property in Models where Inefficiency Depends on Firm Characteristics

Antonio Alvarez, Christine Amsler, Luis Orea and Schmidt Peter

2005/02: An Inter-Country Comparison of Agricultural Productivity with Intertemporal DEA

Natalia Aldaz and Joaquín Millán

2005/01: Technical Efficiency in Farming: A Meta-regression analysis

Boris Bravo-Ureta, Daniel Solis, Victor Moreira, José Maripani, Abdourahmane Thiam and Teodoro Rivas

2004/08: The Measurement of Spatial Productivity Spillovers from Public Capital

Antonio Alvarez, Carlos Arias and Luis Orea

2004/07: The Estimation of Different Technologies using a Latent Class Model

Julio del Corral and Antonio Alvarez

2004/06: Endogeneity Problems in the Estimation of Multi-Output Technologies

David Roibás and Carlos Arias

2004/05: Differences in Productivity Between Efficient and Inefficient Firms

Antonio Alvarez and Luis Orea

2004/04: Technical and Allocative Efficiency in Spanish Port Cargo Handling Firms

Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez, Beatriz Tovar de la Fe and Lourdes Trujillo

2004/03: On the Approximation of Production Functions: A Comparison of Artificial Neural Networks Frontiers and Efficiency Techniques

Daniel Santín