Final version, June 24.  

Book of abstracts

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Keynote address 11:00-13:00

Antonio Estache, World Bank Institute and Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB (Biography, CV)

Discussion: Peter Bogetoft.

Session 1-A 14:15-16:15 Advanced Parametric Approaches

Estimation of Technical and Allocative Inefficiency in a Translog Cost System
Mike Tsionas - Subal Kumbhakar

Estimation and Inference in Stochastic Frontier Models
Paul W. Wilson - Leopold Simar

On Estimating the Mixed Effects Model
Alois Kneip - Wonho Song - Robin C. Sickles

ENDOGENEITY PROBLEMS IN THE ESTIMATION OF MULTI-OUTPUT TECHNOLOGIES
CARLOS ARIAS - David Roibás

Session 1-B 14:15-16:15 Transportation and infrastructure

THE COST OF ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY FOR MULTIOUTPUT CARGO
Ana Rodríguez-Álvarez - Beatriz Tovar de la Fé - Lourdes Trujillo

EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT IN NETWORK INDUSTRIES: APPLICATION TO THE SWISS RAILWAY COMPANIES
Mehdi Farsi - Massimo Filippini - William Greene

The Efficiency and Effectiveness Measurements for Worldwide Railway System in An Unified Framework
Ming-Miin Yu - Erwin T. J. Lin

Session 1-C 14:15-16:15 Production under uncertainty

Disentangling Risk and Inefficiency Using State-Contingent Frontiers
Chris O'Donnell

Cost-based Asset Pricing and the Estimation of Stochastic Technologies
Robert Chambers

Frontier analysis and non-linear pricing for quality in supply-chain relationships
Angelo Zago - Robert G. Chambers

Contingent price duality in a multi-output state-contingent production model
Walter Briec - Laurent Cavaignac

Session 1-D 14:15-16:15 Agriculture

Multi-Output Technical Efficiency for Hillside Farm Households in Central America Using Stochastic Distance Functions and DEA Methods
Daniel Solis - Boris Bravo-Ureta - Ricardo Quiroga

U.S. Dairy Farm Cost Efficiency
Loren Tauer - Ashok Mishra

The Effects of Political Violence on Farm Household Efficiency: the Case of Colombia
Maria A. Gonzalez - Rigoberto Lopez

Structural change in transition: A role for organizational legitimacy? Evidence from Czech Agriculture
Jarmila Curtiss, Bernhard Brümmer, Tomas Medonos, Rob D. Weaver

Session 2-A 16:45-18:45 Advanced Parametric Approaches

On the generation of a regular multiple-inputs multiple-outputs technology using parametric output distance functions
Sergio Perelman - Daniel Santín

Semiparametric Stochastic Frontier Models with Varying Coefficients:A Local Likelihood Approach
kien tran - mike tsionas - giannis karagiannis

Estimation of Technical and Allocative Inefficiency using a System-Wide Local Maximum Likelihood Approach
Efthymios G. Tsionas - Kien C. Tran - Giannis Karagiannis

A Robust Estimator for Performance Modeling
Guan Zhengfei - Alfons Oude Lansink

Session 2-B 16:45-18:45 Transportation and infrastructure

Efficiency benchmarking of Railway Infrastructure: a DEA approach
Bart Roets - Johan Christiaens

Economies of scope in European railways - an efficiency analysis
Heike Wetzel - Christian Growitsch

Market Size and Contract Design:What Determines Efficiency and Productivity in Urban Transit Systems?
Alvaro Costa - ANA FARIA - Ana Faria - et al.

Technical Efficiency Versus Rail Reforms: the case of Western European Railways
CESAR RIVERA-TRUJILLO

Session 2-C 16:45-18:45 Axiomatic Theory

On the Minimum Extrapolation Principle of Data Envelopment Analysis
Timo Kuosmanen

Linearly interpolated FDH efficiency score for nonconvex frontiers
Leopold Simar - Seok-Oh Jeong

AXIOMATIC FOUNDATIONS OF EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT ON FREE-DISPOSAL-HULL TECHNOLOGIES
William Schworm - Robert Russell

Session 2-D 16:45-18:45 Agriculture

A Shadow Cost Function Model of the Dairy Sector in the United States
Roberto Mosheim - Knox Lovell

A Directional Distance Function Approach to Dynamic Efficiency: An Application to the Dutch Glasshouse Horticulture
Elvira Silva - Alfons Oude Lansink

Quality production and quality indicators in intermediate products
Angelo Zago

Do the ban on use of anti-microbial growth promoter impact on technical change and the efficiency of slaughter-pig production
Lartey Lawson - Lars Otto - Peter Vig Jensen - Mogens Lund

Thursday, June 30, 2005

Session 3-A 9:00-10:30 Energy and Regulation (Invited)

The role of the policy framework for the effectiveness of benchmarking in regulatory proceedings
Philip Burns

RESTRUCTURING AND EFFICIENCY IN THE U.S. ELECTRIC POWER SECTOR
Michael Pollitt - John Kwoka

Model Specification Games in DEA Yardstick Regimes
Per AGRELL - Peter Bogetoft - Mathias Lorenz

Session 3-B 9:00-10:30 Health

Absorption of innovations and the relationship between innovations and productivity in Dutch Hospital Industry
Jos Blank - Bart Van Hulst

Hospitals Affiliations; and Efficiency
Gerald Granderson - Ila Alam

Estimating structural efficiency of the public standard hospital sector in Austria: 1999-2002
Margit Sommersguter-Reichmann

Session 3-C 9:00-10:30 Growth and Dynamics

Productivity growth under uncertainty: an application to Spanish dairy farms
Alan Wall - Luis Orea

ECONOMIC GROWTH WITH INEFFICIENCY
Luis Orea - Antonio Álvarez

Measuring and Improving System Efficiency during Transition Periods
Warren Vaneman - Kostas Triantis

Session 3-D 9:00-10:30 Advanced Non-parametric Approaches

A Fully Nonparametric Stochastic Frontier Model for Panel Data: A Practical Approach
Daniel J. Henderson - Léopold Simar

CALCULATION OF SCALE ELASTICITIES IN DEA MODELS:”
Finn Førsund - Lennart Hjalmarsson - Vladimir Krivonozhko - et al.

Conditional Nonparametric Frontier Models for Convex and Non Convex Technologies: a Unifying Approach
Cinzia Daraio - Léopold Simar

Session 4-A 11:00-13:00 Energy and Regulation (Invited)

"Using the market at a cost: A note on how the implementation green certificates lead to market inefficiencies"
Thomas Sundqvist and Mats Nilsson

Mergers in Norwegian Electricity Distribution: An Efficiency Enhancing Exercise?
Thor Erik Grammeltvedt - Peter Bogetoft

DEA Based Yardstick Regulation: Implementation and New Challenges
Peter Bogetoft - Per Agrell - Dag Fjeld Edvardsen

Productivity and deregulation of Norwegian Electricity utilities
Sverre A.C. Kittelsen - Dag Fjeld Edvardsen - Finn R Førsund - et al.

Session 4-B 11:00-13:00 Health

Assessing the efficiencies of hospitals that provide health services research and teaching
Marcos Estellita Lins - Maria Stella Lobo - Angela Cristina Moreira da Silva - et al.

Decomposition of cost changes in Dutch homes for the mentally disabled
Evelien Eggink - Jedid-Jah Jonker - Michiel Ras

Police Reallocation Models
Mette Asmild - Joseph C. Paradi - Jesus Tadeo Pastor Ciurana

Session 4-C 11:00-13:00 Growth and Dynamics

Allocative Efficiency and Decomposition of Productivity Change
Jiro Nemoto - Mika Goto

Malmquist indexes using a Geometric Distance Function (GDF)
Maria Portela - Emmanuel Thanassoulis

On the Anatomy of Productivity Growth: A Decomposition of the Fisher Ideal TFP Index
Timo Kuosmanen - Timo Sipiläinen

A Decomposition of the Malmquist Productivity Index: Returns to Scale and Technical Progress with Imperfect Competition
Kevin Fox - W. Erwin Diewert

Session 4-D 11:00-13:00 Advanced Non-parametric Approaches

FINDING UNIQUE WEIGHTS FOR EFFICIENT UNITS IN DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS
Pekka Korhonen - Rolf Färe

Profit efficiency analysis with absolute and uniform shadow prices
Laurens Cherchye - Mika Kortelainen - Timo Kuosmanen - et al.

New formulations of DEA and FDH models
Hervé LELEU

Session 5-A 14:15-16:15 Energy and Regulation (Invited)

Quality of service technical efficiency and economies of scale - An analysis of European electricity distribution utilities
Christian Growitsch - Tooraj Jamasb - Michael Pollitt

Model Development for a Pan-Nordic Incentive Regulation for Electricity Distribution
Helle Gronli

The productivity of water and wastewater services in Australia
Tim Coelli

Session 5-B 14:15-16:15 Health

The long run productivity of primary care in Finland
Juha Aaltonen - Maija-Liisa Järviö - Kalevi Luoma - et al.

Peer Effects and Productivity: The Role of Competition and Safety Net Hospitals on Performance
Gary Ferrier - Vivian Valdmanis

A PARAMETRIC DECOMPOSITION OF THE OUTPUT-ORIENTED MALMQUIST PRODUCTIVITY INDEX FOR PUBLIC HOSPITALS IN GREECE
Roxani Karagiannis - Michalis Hatziprokopiou

Estimation of Information Asymmetries in Housing Markets: A Two-Tier Stochastic Frontier Approach
Christopher Parmeter - Subal Kumbhakar

Session 5-C 14:15-16:15 Empirical Productivity

Growth and convergence in the EU: relative contributions of physical and human capital accumulation
MªMar Salinas-Jiménez - Inmaculada Alvarez-Ayuso - Mª Jesus Delgado-Rodriguez

Contributions of ICT to Chinese Economic Growth
Almas Heshmati -

Productivity technological spillovers and human capital. An analysis on Italian firm data.
Vania Sena - Sergio Destefanis

Linking Investment Bursts and Productivity: An Empirical Investigation in US. Food Manufacturing
Spiro Stefanou - Pinar Celikkol

Session 5-D 14:15-16:15 Ecological Efficiency

Measuring eco-efficiency of production: A frontier approach
Mika Kortelainen - Timo Kuosmanen

Nitrate Pollution Control Policy and its impact on Farms'' Performance: A Nonparametric Approach
Isabelle Piot-Lepetit - Monique Le Moing

The Cost Implications of Waste Minimisation: Factor Demand Competitiveness and Policy Implications
Wendy Chapple - Catherine Morrison Paul - Richard Harris

Productive efficiency models for environmental performance measurement: a literature review
Ludwig LAUWERS - Hilde Wustenberghs - Lieve De Cock

Session 6-A 16:45-18:45 Energy and Regulation

Environmental Externalities and Regulation Constrained Cost productivity Growth in the U.S. Electric Utility Industry
Diego Prior - Gerald Granderson

Measuring the Efficiency and Returns to Scale of Publicly Owned Electricity Distribution Systems in the United States: An INput Distance Function Approach
David Saal

Economies of Scope and Diversification in the Electricity Industry: A Non Parametric Frontier Approach.
Pablo Arocena

Decomposition of Cost Efficiency and its Application to Japan-US Electric Utilities Comparisons
Miki Tsutsui - Kaoru Tone

Session 6-B 16:45-18:45 Parametric Applications

Where have all the data gone? Stochastic production frontiers with multiply imputed German establishment data
Uwe Jensen - Susanne Raessler

Economics and Olympics: An Efficiency Analysis
Alexander Rathke - Ulrich Woitek

Efficiency and Convergence in Developing Countries
CAMILLA MASTROMARCO

Session 6-C 16:45-18:45 Empirical Productivity

A Re-examination of the technological catching-up hypothesis across and OECD industries
Jean-Philippe Boussemart - Walter Briec - Isabelle Cadoret - et al.

Productivity Analysis of Market and Environmental Regulations in China
Shunsuke Managi - S. Kaneko

The effects of TFP and its components on inequality
Rogerio Cesar Souza - Fernando Garcia - Jorge Oliveira Pires

On the Relative Innovation and Productivity Performance of Domestic and Foreign-Owned Enterprises: A Cross-Country Analysis"
Hans Lööf - Bernd Ebersberger

Session 6-D 16:45-18:45 Invited Modelling Session

Introduction to Special Modelling Session
Spiro E. Stefanou

“Special Session - Public Inputs and Dynamic Producer Behavior: Endogenous Growth in U.S. Agriculture”
Alejandro Onofri - Lilyan Fulginiti

“Special session - Price-Induced Technical Progress in 80 years of US Agriculture<”
Quirino Paris

“Special session - paper 3”
Steven Buccola

“Special session - U.S. Productivity in Agriculture and R&D"
Rolf Färe - Shawna Grosskopf - Dimitri Margaritis

Additional Material: Info modelling session, Memo to Contributors, US Ag Production Data Series 1910-90 Jan-17-05

Friday, July 1, 2005

Session 7-A 9:00-10:30 Macro-level Applications

IMPACT OF TRADE AREA ENVIRONMENT ON BANK’S COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES
aude hubrecht - Leleu hervé

Allocative Efficiency Measurement Revisited--Do We Really Need Input Prices?
Oleg Badunenko - Michael Fritsch - Andreas Stephan

The Importance of Inward and Outward FDI for Productivity Growth in the UK
Nigel Driffield - Michael Henry - James Love

Session 7-B 9:00-10:30 Bootstrapping

The use of bootstrapped Malmquist indices to reassess productivity change findings: Application to a sample of Polish farms
Laure Latruffe - Kelvin Balcombe - Sophia Davidova

Relative Efficiency of Service Centres of Sickness Funds: A DEA-Bootstrap Approach
Matthias Staat

A Two-Stage Efficiency Analysis of Portuguese Municipalities”;
Paulo Daniel Vieira - Elvira Silva

Session 7-C 9:00-10:30 Ecological Efficiency

The Analysis of Eco-efficiency in an Input-Output Framework
Mikulas Luptacik - Bernhard Boehm

Environmental Bads and Nonparametric Modelling: Clearing some confusions
Atakelty Hailu

Session 7-D 9:00-10:30 University and Education

Research Peformance of Chinese Universities after a Decade of Reform: An Application of DEA
Ying Chu NG - Sung-Ko Li

Efficiency Evaluation of Polytechnic Higher Education Institutions with Considering Output Quality and Institutional Characteristics
Tsu-Tan Fu - Yun-Shone Lu

Substitution effects in multi-output production. Evidence from Italian universities
Cinzia Daraio - Andrea Bonaccorsi - Leopold Simar

Session 8-A 11:00-13:00 Software

'Just DEA It!': A New DEA Software and Its Possibilities for Applied Researcher
Eugene Morgunov - Valentin Zelenyuk

FEAR 1.0: A Software Package for Frontier Efficiency Analysis with R
Paul W. Wilson

"DEASoft-V1"
Emmanuel Thanassoulis

"OnFront 3"
Pontus Roos

Session 8-B 11:00-13:00 Banking and Finance

Rationalising Inefficiency: A Study of Canadian Bank Branches
Mette Asmild - Peter Bogetoft - Jens Leth Hougaard

Searching for obstacles to further banking integration in Europe
ANA LOZANO-VIVAS - Jesus T. Pastor

Session 8-C 11:00-13:00 Non-parametric Applications

The assessment of retailing efficiency using Network DEA
Clara Vaz - Ana Camanho

Searching for an Optimal Technical Efficiency Measure
Sung-ko Li

Modifications of the algorithms for visualization of the multidimensional frontier in DEA and efficiency analysis of Russian banks
Vladimir Krivonozhko - Oleg Utkin - Michail Safin - et al.

Constructing Balanced Portfolios of R&D Projects: A DEA Approach
Boaz Golany - Harel Eilat - Avraham Shtub

Session 8-D 11:00-13:00 University and Education

ASSESSING THE RELATIVE PERFORMANCE OF UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OFFICES IN THE U.K USING MULITPLE OUTPUT STOCHASTIC DISTANCE FUNCTIONS
Andy Lockett - Wendy Chapple - Mike Wright - et al.

Educational Efficiency in Belgian schools: A Parametric Distance Function Approach at Student Level
Sergio Perelman - Daniel Santín

Measuring public sector performance and productivity
Philip Stevens - Mary O'Mahony

Faculty Research Productivity and Promotion: Testing the Behavioral Reinforcement Theory
Flora F. Tien

Session 9-A 14:15-16:15 Empirical Industrial Organization

Shadow price of capital and underinvestment in cooperatives and conventional firms
Vania Sena - Ornella Maietta

Institutional reforms now and benefits tomorrow: how far is tomorrow?
Pierre-Guillaume Méon - Khalid Sekkat - Laurent Weill

Market Fragmentation and Structural Efficiency in China
Sung-ko Li - Yuk-Shing Cheng

A Comparison of Productivity in public and private industrial enterprises in India
Ram Mohan - Subhash Ray

Session 9-B 14:15-16:15 Banking and Finance

Mean-Variance-Skewness Portfolio Performance Gauging: A General Shortage Function and Dual Approach
Walter Briec - Kristiaan Kerstens - Octave Jokung

Mutual Fund Performance and Persistence in Taiwan:A Non-Parametric Approach
Chi-Sheng Hsu - Ching-Yao Lia

Session 9-C 14:15-16:15 Fisheries

Estimating the Stock of Red Seabream in the Strait of Gibralter: A DEA?Malmquist Analysis
David Castilla Espino - Harold Fried - Juan Jose Garcia del Hoyo - et al.

Estimating Fishing Capacity of Red Seabream Fishery in the Strait of Gibraltar: Parametric and Non-parametric Approaches
David Castilla Espino

DEA VERSUS ECONOMETRIC ESTIMATION OF EFFICIENCY IN FISHERIES: A REVIEW
Lamprakis Avdelas - Christos Floros

Modelling inefficiency in the product mix:”
Frank Asche - Kristin Helene Roll - Ragnar Tveteras

Session 9-D 14:15-16:15 Non-parametric Applications

Efficiency and Risk
Gary Ferrier

Productivity at the Post
Emili Grifell-Tatjé - C. A. Knox Lovell

Confident-DEA: A New Methodology Genetic Algorithm Based; For Dealing with Imprecise Data in Data Envelopment Analysis
Said Gattoufi

Minimum Distance and Efficiency Assessment with DEA Models
Inmaculada Sirvent - Juan Aparicio - Jose Luis Ruiz

Session 10-A 16:45-18:45 Micro-level Applications

Management Characteristics Collaboration and Innovation Performance in the UK
Andy Cosh - Xiaolan Fu - Alan Hughes

Corporate Governance and Firm’s Efficiency: The Case of a Transitional Country Ukraine
Vitaliy Zheka - Valentin Zelenyuk

Population Aging and firm level productivity
Bernhard Mahlberg - Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz - Vegard Skirbekk

"Productivity, Efficiency and Financial Performance of the United States Dairy Sector: A Frontier Approach"
Richard Nehring, Loren Tauer, Erik O’Donoghue, Carmen Sandretto

Session 10-B 16:45-18:45 Banking and Finance

Efficiency and market power in Spanish banking
Rolf Färe - Shawna Grosskopf - Emili Tortosa-Ausina

Capital Adequacy Risk Management; Efficiency and Productivity in Taiwan''s Banking Industry
Cliff J. Huang - Ming-hsiang Huang

Bank Concentration and Performance in the Single European Market
Barbara Casu - Claudia Girardone

Generalised Malmquist Productivity Measurement in the Banking Systems of Two Emerging Economies
Meryem Duygun Fethi - Mohamed Shaaban - Thomas G. Weyman-Jones

Session 10-C 16:45-18:45 Innovative nonparametric applications

“Water Use Shadow Prices and the Canadian Business Sector Productivity Performance
Tarek Harchaoui - Kais Dachraoui

The Use of DEA in the Measurement of Software Development Efficiency: A Quality Focused Approach
Joseph Paradi - Dwight Schmidt

EFFICIENCY FLOODING - BLACK-BOX FRONTIERS AND IMPLICATIONS
Johannes Sauer - PD Dr. Heinz Hockmann

A Comparison between Direct and Indirect Measures of Efficiency
Roxana Ciumara

Session 10-D 16:45-18:45 Returns to Scale

Global returns to scale in efficiency analysis
Victor Podinovski

Estimation Excess Capital Technical and Allocative Inefficiency
Hung-Jen Wang - Subal Kumbhakar

Returns to Scale in DEA with non-discretionary inputs and outputs.
ole olesen - niels christian petersen

DIRECT AND INDIRECT MEASURES OF CAPACITY UTILIZATION: A NONPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF U.S. MANUFACTURING
Subhash Ray - Kankana Mukherjee - Yanna Wu