Advances in Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Editors’ Introduction

   • Christopher F. Parmeter, Robin C. Sickles

   Pages 1-7

3. The Difference Approach to Productivity Measurement and Exact Indicators

   • W. Erwin Diewert, Kevin J. Fox

   Pages 9-40

4. Efficiency Driven Socio-Technical System Design

   • Konstantinos Triantis

   Pages 41-67

5. A Framework for the Assessment and Consolidation of Productivity Stylized Facts

   • Cinzia Daraio

   Pages 69-102

6. Water’s Contribution to Agricultural Productivity over Space

   • Maria Vrachioli, Spiro E. Stefanou

   Pages 103-123

7. A Survey of the Use of Copulas in Stochastic Frontier Models

   • Christine Amsler, Peter Schmidt

   Pages 125-138

8. Does Xistence of Inefficiency Matter to a Neoclassical Xorcist? Some Econometric Issues in Panel Stochastic Frontier Models

   • Subal C. Kumbhakar, David H. Bernstein

   Pages 139-161

9. The Two-Tier Stochastic Frontier Framework (2TSF): Measuring Frontiers Wherever They May Exist

   • Alecos Papadopoulos

   Pages 163-194

10. Individual Efficient Frontiers in Performance Analysis

    • Markku Kallio, Merja Halme

    Pages 195-209

11. DEA Models Without Inputs or Outputs: A Tour de Force

    • Giannis Karagiannis

    Pages 211-232

12. U.S. Banking in the Post-Crisis Era: New Results from New Methods

    • Paul W. Wilson

    Pages 233-264

13. Room to Move: Why Some Industries Drive the Trade-Specialization Nexus and Others Do Not

    • Jaap W. B. Bos, Lu Zhang

    Pages 265-301

14. Expansionary Investment Activities: Assessing Equipment and Buildings in Productivity

    • Jasper Brinkerink, Andrea Chegut, Wilko Letterie

    Pages 303-333

15. Applying Statistical Methods to Compare Frontiers: Are Organic Dairy Farms Better Than the Conventional?

    • Mette Asmild, Dorte Kronborg, Anders Rsønn-Nielsen

    Pages 335-348

16. Nutrient Use and Precision Agriculture in Corn Production in the USA

    • Roberto Mosheim, David Schimmelpfennig

    Pages 349-363

17. Back Matter

    Pages 365-372

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The volume examines the state-of-the-art of productivity and efficiency analysis. It brings together a selection of the best papers from the 10th North American Productivity Workshop. By analyzing world-wide perspectives on challenges that local economies and institutions may face when changes in productivity are observed, readers can quickly assess the impact of productivity measurement, productivity growth, dynamics of productivity change, measures of labor productivity, measures of technical efficiency in different sectors, frontier analysis, measures of performance, industry instability and spillover effects.

The contributions in this volume focus on the theory and application of economics, econometrics, statistics, management science and operational research related to problems in the areas of productivity and efficiency measurement. Popular techniques and methodologies including stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis are represented. Chapters also cover broader issues related to measuring, understanding, incentivizing and improving the productivity and performance of firms, public services, and industries.

• Productivity
• Efficiency Measurement
• Endogeneity
• Performance Analysis
• Management Science
• Operations Research
• Econometrics
• Stochastic Frontier Analysis
• Data Envelopment Analysis
• Productivity Growth
• Productivity Measurement
• Nonparametric

• Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami, Miami, USA

  Christopher F. Parmeter

• Department of Economics, Rice University, Houston, USA

  Robin C. Sickles

Christopher F. Parmeter is an associate professor at the University of Miami. His research focuses on applied econometrics across a broad array of fields in economics including economic growth, microfinance, international trade, environmental economics and health economics. Professor Parmeter has served as associate editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Empirical Economics, Journal of African Business and Journal of Productivity Analysis.


Robin C. Sickles is the Reginald Henry Hargrove Professor of Economics, a Joint Professor at the Department of Statistics at Rice, and an Adjunct Professor at the Baylor College of Medicine. He is also a Research Associate at the Ovideo (Spain) Efficiency Group and a Member of Executive Committee for the International Finance and Banking Society. Professor Sickles is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Productivity Analysis. His research interests center around applied economics and empirical measurement of productivity.

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