Issue 6/2021
Special Issue on Productivity and Efficiency
Content (19 Articles)
Applications of efficiency and productivity analysis: editors’ introduction
Subal C. Kumbhakarⓡ, Emir Malikovⓡ, Christopher F. Parmeterⓡ
Predicting recessions with a frontier measure of output gap: an application to Italian economy
Camilla Mastromarco, Léopold Simar, Valentin Zelenyuk
Spatial effects of nutrient pollution on drinking water production
Roberto Mosheim, Robin C. Sickles
Aggregate efficiency of industry and its groups: the case of Queensland public hospitals
Bao Hoang Nguyen, Valentin Zelenyuk
Wrong skewness and finite sample correction in the normal-half normal stochastic frontier model
Jun Cai, Qu Feng, William C. Horrace, Guiying Laura Wu
Determining the efficiency of residential electricity consumption
Mark A. Andor, David H. Bernstein, Stephan Sommer
Persistent and transient inefficiency in adult education
Oleg Badunenko, Deni Mazrekaj, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Kristof De Witte
India’s calorie consumption puzzle: insights from the stochastic cost frontier analysis of calorie purchases
Gautam Hazarika, Sourabh Bikas Paul
Estimation of semi- and nonparametric stochastic frontier models with endogenous regressors
Artem Prokhorov, Kien C. Tran, Mike G. Tsionas
Is the productivity premium of internationalized firms technology-driven?
Michele Battisti, Filippo Belloc, Massimo Del Gatto
Unrestricted geometric distance functions and the Geometric Young productivity index: an analysis of Indian manufacturing
Subhash C. Ray, Arnab K. Deb, Kankana Mukherjee
Estimation of firm productivity in the presence of spillovers and common shocks
Shunan Zhao, Man Jin, Subal C. Kumbhakar
Evaluating the cdf of the Skew Normal distribution
Christine Amsler, Alecos Papadopoulos, Peter Schmidt