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Estimation of industry-level productivity with cross-sectional dependence by using spatial analysis
In this paper, we incorporate spatial analysis to estimate industry-level productivity in the presence of inter-sectoral linkages. Since each industry plays a role in providing intermediate goods to other sect...
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Introduction to the special issue on African productivity
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Special Symposium on Lifetime Achievements of Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf
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Introduction to the symposium on inequality, discrimination, and productivity
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Correction to: Heterogeneous decision-making and market power: an application to Eurozone banks
In the original publication of the article, the affiliation for “Prof. Emmanuel Mamatzakis” was incorrectly published.
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Heterogeneous decision-making and market power: an application to Eurozone banks
We provide a structural model wherein the decision-makers are payoff maximizers in a general game theoretic setting in which heterogeneity is formally factored into the decisions of the players. The decision-m...
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Chapter
Efficiency Analysis with Stochastic Frontier Models Using Popular Statistical Softwares
This chapter provides a brief introduction to the stochastic frontier paradigm—one of the most powerful techniques for performance analysis developed over the last few decades to address various research quest...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Airline Economics: A Survey of Applied Issues in the Performance of the US and International Airline Industry
In this survey, we consider applied issues in the productivity and efficiency of the US and the international airline industry. We discuss the implications of mergers and alliances, vertical integration, collu...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Cost, Revenue, and Profit Function Estimates
This chapter reviews the ways in which cost, revenue, and profit functions are used to identify and characterize an underlying technology. It concentrates on the more widely used functional forms to motivate v...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Market Structures in Production Economics
Our chapter begins by discussing the structure-conduct-performance (SCP) paradigm, which is an early descriptive literature that provided many of the stylized facts about market behaviors. This is followed by ...
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Spatial effects of nutrient pollution on drinking water production
According to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), nutrient pollution was viewed as America’s most “widespread, costly and challenging environmental problem” (USEPA 2020a, https://ww...
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Resource allocation in multi-divisional multi-product firms
This paper is concerned with specifying and estimating the productive characteristics of multidivisional multiproduct companies at the divisional level. In order to accomplish this, we augment division-level i...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Editors’ Introduction
The papers in this collection of works presented at the 2018 North American Productivity Workshop X hosted at the University of Miami, represent contributed, peer reviewed chapters across all areas of efficien...
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Non-structural and structural models in productivity analysis: study of the British Isles during the 2007–2009 financial crisis
The paper compares unrestricted and restricted reduced-form estimates of productivity and efficiency performance constructed from non-structural stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) and the structural models of ...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Cost, Revenue, and Profit Function Estimates
This chapter reviews the ways in which cost, revenue, and profit functions are used to identify and characterize an underlying technology. It concentrates on the more widely used functional forms to motivate v...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Market Structures in Production Economics
Our chapter begins by discussing the structure-conduct-performance (SCP) paradigm, which is an early descriptive literature that provided many of the stylized facts about market behaviors. This is followed by ...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Airline Economics: A Survey of Applied Issues in the Performance of the US and International Airline Industry
In this survey, we consider applied issues in the productivity and efficiency of the US and the international airline industry. We discuss the implications of mergers and alliances, vertical integration, collu...
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Chapter
An Overview of Issues in Measuring the Performance of National Economies
This chapter reviews the ways that economists measure the aggregate economic performance of national economies. Efficiency and productivity analysis using the methodologies of data envelopment analysis and sto...
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Pricing Inputs and Outputs: Market Prices Versus Shadow Prices, Market Power, and Welfare Analysis
Our chapter surveys the literature on why market prices may provide distorted signals, i.e., diverge from socially efficient prices. There are a number of reasons for this to occur, such as price controls, ext...