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Skewness-based test diagnosis of technical inefficiency in spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier models J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Ming-Yu Deng, Levent Kutlu, Mingxi Wang
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Measurement and decomposition of profit efficiency under alternative definitions in nonparametric models J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Subhash C. Ray, Linge Yang
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Estimation of industry-level productivity with cross-sectional dependence by using spatial analysis J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Jaepil Han, Robin C. Sickles
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Nonparametric estimation of allocative efficiency using indirect production theory: Application to container ports in Norway J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-25
Abstract Adaption to prices is an important feature of productivity development. This paper proposes an extension of the StoNED model to accommodate estimation of allocative efficiency. It demonstrates how indirect production theory is suited for assessing allocative efficiency and helps alleviating the curse of dimensionality for stochastic nonparametric estimators compared to conventional measures
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Partially Convex Production Technology and Efficiency Measurement J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-12
Abstract Economists tend to believe that production technology should exhibit increasing returns to scale first and then constant and finally decreasing returns to scale, called regular variable returns to scale (RVRS) in this paper. Further, a special pattern of RVRS production technology when there is only one output is the production function that has an S-shaped curve along any ray of inputs from
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Facet analysis in data envelopment analysis: some pitfalls of the CRS models J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-11
Abstract The nonparametric estimator of the Extended Facet reference technology for the Constant Returns to Scale case has attracted some attention, because the associated production frontier by construction does only include strongly efficient faces of maximal dimension, or strongly efficient faces that are part of such strongly efficient faces of maximal dimension. The strongly efficient faces of
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The contribution of industrial robots to labor productivity growth and economic convergence: a production frontier approach J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Andreas Eder, Wolfgang Koller, Bernhard Mahlberg
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The impacts of agricultural productivity on structural transformation, and poverty alleviation in Africa: evidence from Guinea-Bissau J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Júlio Vicente Cateia, Maurício Vaz Lobo Bittencourt, Terciane Sabadini Carvalho, Luc Savard
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Best practices, performance advantage and trade-offs: new insights from frontier analysis J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Rui Sousa, Ana S. Camanho, Maria Conceição Silva, Giovani J. C. da Silveira, Behrouz Arabi
There are still important theoretical and empirical gaps in understanding the role of best practices (BPs), such as quality management, lean and new product development, in generating firm’s performance advantage and overcoming trade-offs across distinct performance dimensions. We examine these issues through the perspective of performance frontiers, integrating in novel ways the resource-based theory
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Inter-industry and intra-industry switching as sources of productivity growth: structural change of Finland’s ICT industries J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Natalia Kuosmanen, Timo Kuosmanen
Structural change is an important driver of productivity growth at the aggregate level. While previous productivity decompositions account for the contributions of market entry and exit, they overlook continuing firms that switch from one industry to another. We develop an improved productivity decomposition that accounts for both intra-industry and inter-industry switching, is applicable to both static
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On aggregation of technical and revenue efficiency measures J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Mehmet A. Begen, Fredrik Ødegaard, Jafar Sadeghi
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The evaluation of productivity in South African deciduous fruit industry: evidence from stone and pome fruits J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Lindikaya W. Myeki, Omphile Temoso, Bonani Nyhodo
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On the problem of the purchasing power of money by A. A. Konüs and S. S. Byushgens: translation and commentary J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Erwin Diewert, Valentin Zelenyuk
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Productivity analysis: roots, foundations, trends and perspectives J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Valentin Zelenyuk
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Growing green: enablers and barriers for Africa J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Chuku Chuku, Victor Ajayi
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The wrong skewness problem in stochastic frontier analysis: a review J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Alecos Papadopoulos, Christopher F. Parmeter
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Two-tiered stochastic frontier models: a Bayesian perspective J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Shirong Zhao, Jeremy Losak
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Short-run Johansen frontier-based industry models: methodological refinements and empirical illustration on fisheries J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Kristiaan Kerstens, Jafar Sadeghi, Ignace Van de Woestyne, John Walden
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The conditional mode in parametric frontier models J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 William C. Horrace, Hyunseok Jung, Yi Yang
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A note on functional form specification in random coefficients stochastic frontier models J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Ioannis Skevas
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The denominator rule with unit ratio difference J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Rolf Färe, Giannis Karagiannis
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The role of social protection in mitigating the effects of rainfall shocks. Evidence from Ethiopia J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Silvio Daidone, Francisco Pereira Fontes
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Alternative output, input and income concepts for the production accounts J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 W. Erwin Diewert, Kevin J. Fox
Definitions of output and input are key to studies of productivity analysis, as they are to the national accounts of countries. This paper systematically reviews alternative definitions at production unit and aggregate levels, illustrating the different perspectives that they provide on production and income, and making the case for their use in understanding different aspects of firm and country economic
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Productive efficiency analysis with incomplete output information J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Dieter Saelens, Marijn Verschelde
We present a novel Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)-type method to evaluate the productive efficiency of Decision Making Units (DMUs) when the empirical analyst has incomplete output information. Our method builds on the Afriat Theorem that was originally proposed in the context of consumer analysis. We translate this result to a production setting and show that it provides a productive basis for cost
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Another look at productivity growth in industrialized countries J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Léopold Simar, Paul W. Wilson
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Adjusting for teammate effects in evaluating college prospects for the NBA draft J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Joseph Kuehn
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Efficiency decomposition for multi-level multi-components production technologies J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Antonio Peyrache, Maria C. A. Silva
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The impact of local financial development and corruption control on firm efficiency in Vietnam: evidence from a geoadditive stochastic frontier analysis J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Rouven E. Haschka, Helmut Herwartz, Clara Silva Coelho, Yabibal M. Walle
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The gender-equal Union? Measuring female (dis)advantage and achievement in European Union Member States using a benefit-of-the-doubt framework J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Perrine Dehaspe, Nicky Rogge
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An empirical assessment of the role of trade in services in export product diversification in Sub-Saharan Africa J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Bouraima Sawadogo, Constant Fouopi Djiogap, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Moukaila Mouzamilou Takpara
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Efficiency measurement in the tendering of road surface renewal contracts J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Andrew S. J. Smith, Jan-Eric Nilsson, Ivan Ridderstedt, Oskar Johansson
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Positive weights in data envelopment analysis J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Maryam Hasannasab, Dimitris Margaritis, Israfil Roshdi, Paul Rouse
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models give each decision making unit freedom to assign values to the input-output weights maximising its efficiency score. However, there is no guarantee that the optimal weights obtained from a DEA model are always positive which poses a problem, in both theory and practice. This paper offers new linear programming models to deal with the zero weights problem without
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A ray-based input distance function to model zero-valued output quantities: Derivation and an empirical application J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Juan José Price, Arne Henningsen
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Persistent and transient productive efficiency in the African airline industry J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Gianmaria Martini, Flavio Porta, Davide Scotti
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Ph.D. publication productivity: the role of gender and race in supervision in South Africa J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Giulia Rossello, Robin Cowan, Jacques Mairesse
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Production analysis with asymmetric noise J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Oleg Badunenko, Daniel J. Henderson
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Technology and managerial performance of farm operators by age in Ghana J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Richard K. Asravor, Alexander N. Wiredu, Manfred Zeller
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Productivity in Procurement Auctions of Pavement Contracts in Mexico J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Daniel Prudencio
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The Estimation of a Polluting By-Production Technology Using Statistical Copulas J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Alexandre Repkine
We estimate the parameters of a two-equation by-production technology defined as an intersection of two sub-technologies producing one good, and two polluting outputs using a sample of 130 countries for the period between 2000 and 2011. We use Frank, Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern, and Ali-Mikhail-Haq copulas in order to account for stochastic dependence between technical inefficiency components of the
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Aggregation in efficiency and productivity analysis: a brief review with new insights and justifications for constant returns to scale J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Valentin Zelenyuk
The main goal of this paper is to clarify a few important aspects about the aggregation issues in efficiency and productivity analysis. By doing so we also sketch a brief historical map on how the area of aggregation in efficiency and productivity analysis has developed to where it is now and its connection to some classic studies in economic theory. As a result, this paper also serves as a tribute
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On asymmetry and quantile estimation of the stochastic frontier model J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 William C. Horrace, Christopher F. Parmeter, Ian A. Wright
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On hypothesis testing in latent class and finite mixture stochastic frontier models, with application to a contaminated normal-half normal model J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Alexander D. Stead, Phill Wheat, William H. Greene
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Spatial dependence in production frontier models J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Kassoum Ayouba
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Detecting Learning by Exporting and from Exporters J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Jingfang Zhang, Emir Malikov
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Addition and aggregative efficiency J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Rolf Färe, Giannis Karagiannis
The aim of this paper is to relate the condition for cost subadditivity to aggregative efficiency. In particular, we verify that subadditivity of the cost function occurs when aggregate cost efficiency is not less than the cost efficiency of the average production unit. This provides a simple way of examining the potential of merging two or more firms and of making inference about the extent of industry
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Does joining the European monetary union improve labor productivity? A synthetic control approach J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Hong Zhuang, Miao Grace Wang, Imre Ersoy, Mesut Eren
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Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Inmaculada C. Álvarez, Luis Orea, Alan Wall
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Spatial and cross-sectoral input spillover effects: the case of the Italian tourism industry J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Silvia Emili, Federica Galli
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Sources of productivity growth in Eastern Europe and Russia before the global financial crisis J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Ilya B. Voskoboynikov
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A generalized flexible functional form for α-returns to scale J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Hideyuki Mizobuchi, Valentin Zelenyuk
This study proposes a new flexible functional form for distance functions. This generalizes the existing functional form of Diewert (1992b) by allowing for α-returns to scale technology and employing the quadratic mean of order r aggregator function. Because we allow parameter α to be any strictly positive real number and r to be any non-zero real number, it includes a variety of functional forms as
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Trade for catch-up: examining how global value chains participation affects productive efficiency J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Gideon Ndubuisi, Solomon Owusu
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Further improvements of finite sample approximation of central limit theorems for envelopment estimators J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Léopold Simar, Valentin Zelenyuk, Shirong Zhao
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Proper modelling of industrial production systems with unintended outputs: a different perspective J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Harald Dyckhoff
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Analyzing the land and labour productivity of farms producing renewable energy: the Italian case study J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-21 Antonella Basso, Maria Bruna Zolin
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The role of poverty measurements in achieving educational equity through school finance reform J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Lori Taylor, Shawna Grosskopf, Kathy Hayes, Laura Razzolini
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Semi-parametric modelling of inefficiencies in stochastic frontier analysis J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Giovanni Forchini, Raoul Theler
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Regularized conditional estimators of unit inefficiency in stochastic frontier analysis, with application to electricity distribution market J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Zangin Zeebari, Kristofer Månsson, Pär Sjölander, Magnus Söderberg
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Assessing environmentally sensitive productivity growth: incorporating externalities and heterogeneity into water sector evaluations J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Jayanath Ananda, Dong-hyun Oh
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Measuring heterogeneity in hospital productivity: a quantile regression approach J. Prod. Anal. (IF 2.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Galina Besstremyannaya, Sergei Golovan