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Productivity analysis: roots, foundations, trends and perspectives
The goal of this article is to give a brief overview of productivity analysis, starting with general concepts, its importance and a brief historical...
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Aggregation in efficiency and productivity analysis: a brief review with new insights and justifications for constant returns to scale
The main goal of this paper is to clarify a few important aspects about the aggregation issues in efficiency and productivity analysis. By doing so...
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On the problem of the purchasing power of money by A. A. Konüs and S. S. Byushgens: translation and commentary
In 1939, Econometrica published an English translation of Konüs (
1924 ). Since then, Konüs (1924 [1939 ]) has become a classic work on the theory of the...
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Sequential data envelopment analysis: decentralization and solutions for panel data
To address the company-branch structure in data envelopment analysis (DEA), Färe and Zelenyuk (
2021 , Annals of Operations Research) proposed a...
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Performance analysis of hospitals in Australia and its peers: a systematic and critical review
Along with the development of productivity and efficiency analysis techniques, extensive research on the performance of hospitals has been conducted...
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A generalized flexible functional form for α-returns to scale
This study proposes a new flexible functional form for distance functions. This generalizes the existing functional form of Diewert (
1992b ) by... -
Further improvements of finite sample approximation of central limit theorems for envelopment estimators
A simple yet easy to implement method is proposed to further improve the finite sample approximation of the recently developed central limit theorems...
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Is newer always better? A reinvestigation of productivity dynamics using updated PWT data
Understanding the drivers of productivity remains one of the most sought after phenomena in economics. The ability to create produce more from less...
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Quadratic-mean-of-order-r indexes of output, input and productivity
This paper deals with the quadratic-mean-of-order- r indexes of output, input and productivity. Each index is a family of indexes that unify many of...
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On aggregation of multi-factor productivity indexes
The goal of this paper is to investigate the question of the importance of aggregation of the Paasche and Laspeyres versions of the Malmquist...
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Predicting recessions with a frontier measure of output gap: an application to Italian economy
Despite the long and great history, developed institutions, and high level of physical and human capital, the Italian economy has been fairly...
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Aggregate efficiency of industry and its groups: the case of Queensland public hospitals
In this paper, we explore the efficiency of different groups of hospitals in Queensland, Australia, focusing on teaching and non-teaching hospitals,...
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Robust Efficiency Analysis of Public Hospitals in Queensland, Australia
In this study, we utilize various approaches for efficiency analysis to explore the state of efficiency of public hospitals in Queensland, Australia,...
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Aggregation of Outputs and Inputs for DEA Analysis of Hospital Efficiency: Economics, Operations Research and Data Science Perspectives
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been widely recognised as a powerful tool for performance analysis over the last four decades. The application of...
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Forecasting of recessions via dynamic probit for time series: replication and extension of Kauppi and Saikkonen (2008)
In this work, we first replicate the results of the fully parametric dynamic probit model for forecasting US recessions from Kauppi and Saikkonen...
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Aggregation of Individual Efficiency Measures and Productivity Indices
Here, we consider the problem of aggregation of efficiency and productivity indices. We will summarize some of the existing results and will derive...
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Slack-based directional distance function in the presence of bad outputs: theory and application to Vietnamese banking
In this paper we extend the slack-based directional distance function introduced by Färe and Grosskopf (Eur J Oper Res 200(1):320–322,
2010 ) to...
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Nonparametric least squares methods for stochastic frontier models
When analyzing productivity and efficiency of firms, stochastic frontier models are very attractive because they allow, as in typical regression...
