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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Resource capacity and economic growth convergence	24
The role of poverty measurements in achieving educational equity through school finance reform	20
Alternative output, input and income concepts for the production accounts	18
Assessing environmentally sensitive productivity growth: incorporating externalities and heterogeneity into water sector evaluations	16
Direct utility functions for rank two and quadratic logarithmic continuous demand systems	15
Nonparametric estimation of allocative efficiency using indirect production theory: Application to container ports in Norway	15
Analyzing the land and labour productivity of farms producing renewable energy: the Italian case study	14
Finance, productivity, and exports: Theory and firm-level evidence from China	14
Technical efficiency and firm heterogeneity in stochastic frontier models: application to smallholder maize farms in Ethiopia	13
Estimation of industry-level productivity with cross-sectional dependence by using spatial analysis	13
General network production theory for good and bad inputs and outputs	12
A class of generalized autoregressive score panel stochastic frontier models	12
Laspeyres-Paasche bounds for productivity index	12
The evaluation of productivity in South African deciduous fruit industry: evidence from stone and pome fruits	12
Some Remarks on the Occasion of Léopold Simar’s Lifetime Achievement Award	12
Elasticity measurement on multiple levels of DEA frontiers: an application to agriculture	11
Aggregation in efficiency and productivity analysis: a brief review with new insights and justifications for constant returns to scale	11
Production under Physical Constraints: In honor of Finn Førsund	9
Introduction to the special issue on African productivity	9
On aggregation of technical and revenue efficiency measures	9
The generalized panel data stochastic frontier model: A review and nonparametric estimation	9
In Memoriam: R. Robert Russell, 1938–2023	9
Fintech and bank efficiency: a robust nonparametric approach for Chinese commercial banks	9
Dedication to my father, Robert	9
Firm exit and entry over the business cycle in Spain	9

Flying high or falling short? markup and product differentiation in the U.S. airline industry (2002–2022)	9
Is newer always better? A reinvestigation of productivity dynamics using updated PWT data	9
Efficiency in electricity distribution in Sweden and the effects of small-scale generation, electric vehicles and dynamic tariffs	8
Regularized conditional estimators of unit inefficiency in stochastic frontier analysis, with application to electricity distribution market	8
Capacity utilization change over time	7
Two-tier stochastic frontier analysis: heterogeneous error distributions and model selection	7
Approximations and inference for envelopment estimators of production frontiers	7
Persistent and transient productive efficiency in the African airline industry	7
The productivity growth of euro area banks	6
The choice of efficiency benchmarking metric in evaluating firm productivity and viability	6
Semi-parametric modelling of inefficiencies in stochastic frontier analysis	6
Assessing total factor productivity across Africa: an empirical investigation	6
Using stochastic frontier analysis to assess the performance of public service providers in the presence of demand uncertainty	6
Measurement and decomposition of profit efficiency under alternative definitions in nonparametric models	6
Latent class models with persistence in regime changes: a distributed lag analysis	6
Adjusting for teammate effects in evaluating college prospects for the NBA draft	6
Regional differences in Italian school efficiency: A conditional DEA approach	6
A generalization of environmental productivity analysis	6
Production analysis with asymmetric noise	5
Introduction to the symposium on inequality, discrimination, and productivity	5
Trade for catch-up: examining how global value chains participation affects productive efficiency	5
Enhancing Cost Efficiency Estimates with Trade-offs for Improved Reallocation Processes	5
Stochastic vs. deterministic frontier distance output function: Evidence from Brazilian higher education institutions	5
Nonparametric analysis of separable production technologies with intermediate inputs	5
Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models	5
R& D investments, outsourcing and non-neutral productivity growth	5
Positive weights in data envelopment analysis	5
Productivity slowdown and regional productivity heterogeneity	5
Club convergence in regional labor productivity: how do Australian states and territories compare to the US, UK, and Canadian subnational regions?	4
Approximate Bayesian computation to estimate persistent and transient efficiency in stochastic frontier panel data models	4
A note on functional form specification in random coefficients stochastic frontier models	4
The impacts of agricultural productivity on structural transformation, and poverty alleviation in Africa: evidence from Guinea-Bissau	4
Firm heterogeneity, biased technological change, and total factor productivity: Evidence from China	4
An alternative derivation of the van IJzeren weights and some new results for the additive decomposition of Fisher indices	4
Two-tiered stochastic frontier models: a Bayesian perspective	4
Correction to: Eliminating congestion in China’s papermaking and paper products industry: from both the perspective of increasing and decreasing inputs	4
Productivity, investment slowdown, and misallocation: evidence from Indian manufacturing	4
The wrong skewness problem in stochastic frontier analysis: a review	4
Special Symposium on Lifetime Achievements of Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf	4
Environmental efficiency measurement when producers control pollutants under heterogeneous conditions: a generalization of the materials balance approach	4
Integrating soil natural capital into agricultural total factor productivity analysis	3
Labor productivity growth effects of structural reforms: evidence from developing countries	3
Efficiency measurement of higher education units using multilevel frontier analysis	3
Can digital transformation enhance total factor productivity? Evidence from chinese listed manufacturing firms	3
Persistent and transient inefficiency in a spatial autoregressive panel stochastic frontier model	3
Correction: Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models	3
“Wrong” skewness and endogenous regressors in stochastic frontier models: an instrument-free copula approach with an application to estimate firm efficiency in Vietnam	3
Sequential data envelopment analysis: decentralization and solutions for panel data	3
Correction: The contribution of innovation to farm-level productivity	3
Symmetries and duality in economic indexes inspired by R. Robert Russell	3

On asymmetry and quantile estimation of the stochastic frontier model	3
Inter-industry and intra-industry switching as sources of productivity growth: structural change of Finland’s ICT industries	3
Partial local and global returns to scale in efficiency analysis with different technologies	3
Productivity in Procurement Auctions of Pavement Contracts in Mexico	3
The role of Spatial dynamics in labor productivity: A regional multifactor partitioning analysis of mexico’s manufacturing sector: 1993-2018	2
Another look at productivity growth in industrialized countries	2
Weighted index of graph efficiency improvements for by-production technology and its application to the Indian coal-based thermal power sector	2
The contribution of industrial robots to labor productivity growth and economic convergence: a production frontier approach	2
Productive efficiency analysis with incomplete output information	2
Technical progress and induced innovation in China: a variable profit function approach	2
Facet analysis in data envelopment analysis: some pitfalls of the CRS models	2
Spatial dependence in production frontier models	2
Technology and managerial performance of farm operators by age in Ghana	2
Best practices, performance advantage and trade-offs: new insights from frontier analysis	2
Measuring and comparing World Bank regions’ ‘ease of doing business’ opportunity sets	2
On the problem of the purchasing power of money by A. A. Konüs and S. S. Byushgens: translation and commentary	2
Skewness-based test diagnosis of technical inefficiency in spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier models	2
Ph.D. publication productivity: the role of gender and race in supervision in South Africa	2
The conditional mode in parametric frontier models	2
Bayesian stochastic frontier models under the skew-normal half-normal settings	2
The structure of production technologies with ratio inputs and outputs	2
Spatial and cross-sectoral input spillover effects: the case of the Italian tourism industry	2
The impact of local financial development and corruption control on firm efficiency in Vietnam: evidence from a geoadditive stochastic frontier analysis	2