OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Productivity Analysis is 4. 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
Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs	13
Latent heterogeneity to evaluate the effect of human capital on world technology frontier	13
Stochastic frontier models using the Generalized Exponential distribution	12
World agricultural convergence	12
Optimal solutions of multiplier DEA models	11
The structure of production technologies with ratio inputs and outputs	10
Resource allocation in multi-divisional multi-product firms	10
On aggregation of multi-factor productivity indexes	9
A new family of copulas, with application to estimation of a production frontier system	9
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
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
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
A generalization of environmental productivity analysis	7
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
Production analysis with asymmetric noise	6

Productivity analysis: roots, foundations, trends and perspectives	6
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
Heterogeneity in frontier analysis: does it matter for benchmarking farms?	5
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
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