OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Productivity Analysis is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Alternative output, input and income concepts for the production accounts	18
Resource capacity and economic growth convergence	17
The role of poverty measurements in achieving educational equity through school finance reform	15
Assessing environmentally sensitive productivity growth: incorporating externalities and heterogeneity into water sector evaluations	14
Nonparametric estimation of allocative efficiency using indirect production theory: Application to container ports in Norway	13
Direct utility functions for rank two and quadratic logarithmic continuous demand systems	13
Analyzing the land and labour productivity of farms producing renewable energy: the Italian case study	13
Technical efficiency and firm heterogeneity in stochastic frontier models: application to smallholder maize farms in Ethiopia	13
Finance, productivity, and exports: Theory and firm-level evidence from China	12
A class of generalized autoregressive score panel stochastic frontier models	11
Estimation of industry-level productivity with cross-sectional dependence by using spatial analysis	11
General network production theory for good and bad inputs and outputs	11
The evaluation of productivity in South African deciduous fruit industry: evidence from stone and pome fruits	11
Aggregation in efficiency and productivity analysis: a brief review with new insights and justifications for constant returns to scale	10
Some Remarks on the Occasion of Léopold Simar’s Lifetime Achievement Award	10
Elasticity measurement on multiple levels of DEA frontiers: an application to agriculture	10
The generalized panel data stochastic frontier model: A review and nonparametric estimation	9
Firm exit and entry over the business cycle in Spain	9
Production under Physical Constraints: In honor of Finn Førsund	9
Introduction to the special issue on African productivity	9
Dedication to my father, Robert	9
On aggregation of technical and revenue efficiency measures	8
In Memoriam: R. Robert Russell, 1938–2023	8
Regularized conditional estimators of unit inefficiency in stochastic frontier analysis, with application to electricity distribution market	8
Is newer always better? A reinvestigation of productivity dynamics using updated PWT data	8

Two-tier stochastic frontier analysis: heterogeneous error distributions and model selection	7
Persistent and transient productive efficiency in the African airline industry	7
Efficiency in electricity distribution in Sweden and the effects of small-scale generation, electric vehicles and dynamic tariffs	7
Assessing total factor productivity across Africa: an empirical investigation	6
Capacity utilization change over time	6
The productivity growth of euro area banks	6
The choice of efficiency benchmarking metric in evaluating firm productivity and viability	6
Using stochastic frontier analysis to assess the performance of public service providers in the presence of demand uncertainty	6
Approximations and inference for envelopment estimators of production frontiers	6
Adjusting for teammate effects in evaluating college prospects for the NBA draft	6
Measurement and decomposition of profit efficiency under alternative definitions in nonparametric models	6
Stochastic vs. deterministic frontier distance output function: Evidence from Brazilian higher education institutions	5
Positive weights in data envelopment analysis	5
Introduction to the symposium on inequality, discrimination, and productivity	5
Production analysis with asymmetric noise	5
Semi-parametric modelling of inefficiencies in stochastic frontier analysis	5
Productivity slowdown and regional productivity heterogeneity	5
A generalization of environmental productivity analysis	5
Enhancing Cost Efficiency Estimates with Trade-offs for Improved Reallocation Processes	5
R& D investments, outsourcing and non-neutral productivity growth	4
Productivity, investment slowdown, and misallocation: evidence from Indian manufacturing	4
Approximate Bayesian computation to estimate persistent and transient efficiency in stochastic frontier panel data models	4
Special Symposium on Lifetime Achievements of Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf	4
Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models	4
Club convergence in regional labor productivity: how do Australian states and territories compare to the US, UK, and Canadian subnational regions?	4
Firm heterogeneity, biased technological change, and total factor productivity: Evidence from China	4
A note on functional form specification in random coefficients stochastic frontier models	4
Trade for catch-up: examining how global value chains participation affects productive efficiency	4
Nonparametric analysis of separable production technologies with intermediate inputs	4
The wrong skewness problem in stochastic frontier analysis: a review	4
An alternative derivation of the van IJzeren weights and some new results for the additive decomposition of Fisher indices	4
Persistent and transient inefficiency in a spatial autoregressive panel stochastic frontier model	3
Environmental efficiency measurement when producers control pollutants under heterogeneous conditions: a generalization of the materials balance approach	3
Correction: The contribution of innovation to farm-level productivity	3
Productivity in Procurement Auctions of Pavement Contracts in Mexico	3
On asymmetry and quantile estimation of the stochastic frontier model	3
Can digital transformation enhance total factor productivity? Evidence from chinese listed manufacturing firms	3
Integrating soil natural capital into agricultural total factor productivity analysis	3
Symmetries and duality in economic indexes inspired by R. Robert Russell	3
Correction: Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models	3
Correction to: Eliminating congestion in China’s papermaking and paper products industry: from both the perspective of increasing and decreasing inputs	3
The impacts of agricultural productivity on structural transformation, and poverty alleviation in Africa: evidence from Guinea-Bissau	3
Two-tiered stochastic frontier models: a Bayesian perspective	3
Ph.D. publication productivity: the role of gender and race in supervision in South Africa	2
Efficiency measurement of higher education units using multilevel frontier analysis	2
Sequential data envelopment analysis: decentralization and solutions for panel data	2
The structure of production technologies with ratio inputs and outputs	2
Best practices, performance advantage and trade-offs: new insights from frontier analysis	2
Bayesian stochastic frontier models under the skew-normal half-normal settings	2
The impact of local financial development and corruption control on firm efficiency in Vietnam: evidence from a geoadditive stochastic frontier analysis	2

Spatial dependence in production frontier models	2
Another look at productivity growth in industrialized countries	2
Labor productivity growth effects of structural reforms: evidence from developing countries	2
Technology and managerial performance of farm operators by age in Ghana	2
The conditional mode in parametric frontier models	2
The contribution of industrial robots to labor productivity growth and economic convergence: a production frontier approach	2
Technical progress and induced innovation in China: a variable profit function approach	2
Facet analysis in data envelopment analysis: some pitfalls of the CRS models	2
“Wrong” skewness and endogenous regressors in stochastic frontier models: an instrument-free copula approach with an application to estimate firm efficiency in Vietnam	2
Inter-industry and intra-industry switching as sources of productivity growth: structural change of Finland’s ICT industries	2
Weighted index of graph efficiency improvements for by-production technology and its application to the Indian coal-based thermal power sector	2
Skewness-based test diagnosis of technical inefficiency in spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier models	2
Measuring and comparing World Bank regions’ ‘ease of doing business’ opportunity sets	2