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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The sensitivity of efficiency scores to input and other choices in stochastic frontier analysis: an empirical investigation	18
Latent heterogeneity to evaluate the effect of human capital on world technology frontier	13
Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs	13
World agricultural convergence	12
Stochastic frontier models using the Generalized Exponential distribution	12
Optimal solutions of multiplier DEA models	11
Resource allocation in multi-divisional multi-product firms	10
The structure of production technologies with ratio inputs and outputs	10
On aggregation of multi-factor productivity indexes	9
A new family of copulas, with application to estimation of a production frontier system	9
The shadow prices of CO2, SO2 and NOx for U.S. coal power industry 2010–2017: a convex quantile regression method	8
Capital and labor misallocation in the Netherlands	8
Energy intensity improvement and energy productivity changes: an analysis of BRICS and G7 countries	8
Technical efficiency and firm heterogeneity in stochastic frontier models: application to smallholder maize farms in Ethiopia	8
A generalization of environmental productivity analysis	7
Trade for catch-up: examining how global value chains participation affects productive efficiency	7
Exploring hospital efficiency within and between Italian regions: new empirical evidence	7
On asymmetry and quantile estimation of the stochastic frontier model	7
Nonparametric measurement of potential gains from mergers: an additive decomposition and application to Indian bank mergers	7
Production analysis with asymmetric noise	6
Productivity analysis: roots, foundations, trends and perspectives	6
Efficiency measurement of higher education units using multilevel frontier analysis	6
Estimation of bank performance from multiple perspectives: an alternative solution to the deposit dilemma	6
Stochastic vs. deterministic frontier distance output function: Evidence from Brazilian higher education institutions	6
Global Malmquist and cost Malmquist indexes for group comparison	6

Environmental information disclosure and firm production: evidence from the estimated efficiency of publicly listed firms in China	6
Heterogeneity in frontier analysis: does it matter for benchmarking farms?	5
Cross-country agricultural TFP convergence and capital deepening: evidence for induced innovation from 17 OECD countries	5
Model uncertainty and efficiency measurement in stochastic frontier analysis with generalized errors	5
Modeling dependence in two-tier stochastic frontier models	5
Vertical integration vs. specialization: a nonparametric conditional efficiency estimate for the global semiconductor industry	5
Elasticity measurement on multiple levels of DEA frontiers: an application to agriculture	5
Spatial dependence in production frontier models	5
Investment Inefficiency and Corporate Social Responsibility	5
Density deconvolution with Laplace errors and unknown variance	5
Persistent and transient inefficiency in a spatial autoregressive panel stochastic frontier model	5
A solution to log of dependent variables with negative observations	4
The productivity growth of euro area banks	4
The closest strong efficient targets in the FDH technology: an enumeration method	4
Regularized conditional estimators of unit inefficiency in stochastic frontier analysis, with application to electricity distribution market	4
The choice of efficiency benchmarking metric in evaluating firm productivity and viability	4
Quadratic-mean-of-order-r indexes of output, input and productivity	4
Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models	4
Estimation of costs of technical and allocative inefficiency	4
The wrong skewness problem in stochastic frontier analysis: a review	4
Aggregation in efficiency and productivity analysis: a brief review with new insights and justifications for constant returns to scale	3
Assessing total factor productivity across Africa: an empirical investigation	3
In search for the most preferred solution in value efficiency analysis	3
Capacity utilization change over time	3
Efficiency decomposition for multi-level multi-components production technologies	3
Do Egocentric information networks influence technical efficiency of farmers? Empirical evidence from Ghana	3
A commentary on “Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs” by Finn Førsund	3
Eliminating congestion in China’s papermaking and paper products industry: From both the perspective of increasing and decreasing inputs	3
Spatial and cross-sectoral input spillover effects: the case of the Italian tourism industry	3
From micro to macro: a note on the analysis of aggregate productivity dynamics using firm-level data	3
Extending the zero-sum gains data envelopment analysis model	3
Is newer always better? A reinvestigation of productivity dynamics using updated PWT data	2
Detecting Learning by Exporting and from Exporters	2
Comments: Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs	2
Goodness--of--fit tests for stochastic frontier models based on the characteristic function	2
Technical progress and induced innovation in China: a variable profit function approach	2
Further improvements of finite sample approximation of central limit theorems for envelopment estimators	2
Comment: Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs	2
Does joining the European monetary union improve labor productivity? A synthetic control approach	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
A semiparametric stochastic input distance frontier model with application to the Indonesian banking industry	2
The impact of local financial development and corruption control on firm efficiency in Vietnam: evidence from a geoadditive stochastic frontier analysis	2
Addition and aggregative efficiency	2
The contribution of industrial robots to labor productivity growth and economic convergence: a production frontier approach	2
Decomposition of technical efficiency under fixed proportion technologies: an application of data envelopment analysis	2
Evidence from shadow price of equity on “Too-Big-to-Fail” Banks	2
Semi-parametric modelling of inefficiencies in stochastic frontier analysis	2
Sources of productivity growth in Eastern Europe and Russia before the global financial crisis	2
Proper modelling of industrial production systems with unintended outputs: a different perspective	2
Environmental efficiency measurement when producers control pollutants under heterogeneous conditions: a generalization of the materials balance approach	2

A general equilibrium assessment of COVID-19's labor productivity impacts on china's regional economies