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Workshops – 7th July 2014

Time Session Location

9:00am –

6:00pm

Chris O’Donnell

Introduction to Productivity and Efficiency Analysis

Sir Llew Edwards Building (14), Room 115

9:00am –

6:00pm

Rolf Fare & Shawna Grosskopf

Joint Production and Externalities

Sir Llew Edwards Building (14), Room 217

9:00am –

6:00pm

Leopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk

Boot camp on Bootstrap: Introduction to Bootstrap Methods

Sir Llew Edwards Building (14), Room 216

Workshops – 7th July 2014

Time Session Location

9:00am –

6:00pm

Chris O’Donnell

Introduction to Productivity and Efficiency Analysis

Sir Llew Edwards Building (14), Room 115

9:00am –

6:00pm

Rolf Fare & Shawna Grosskopf

Joint Production and Externalities

Sir Llew Edwards Building (14), Room 217

9:00am –

6:00pm

Leopold Simar & Valentin Zelenyuk

Boot camp on Bootstrap: Introduction to Bootstrap Methods

Sir Llew Edwards Building (14), Room 216

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ECR Day - Tuesday 8th July, 2014

Time Session Presenter Title Location

7:30am –

8:50am

Tea and Coffee Abel Smith

Theatre Foyer

(23)

7:30am -

8:50am

Registration Abel Smith

Theatre Foyer

(23)

8:50am Welcome Address

Deputy Vice Chancellor

Professor Joanne Wright

Abel Smith

Theatre (23)

9:00am –

9:45am

Session Chair:

Emili Grifell Tatjé

Thanh Phuong Le Private versus State-owned Banks: A Comparison of Technical Efficiency in the Vietnamese Banking Sector (ID 043)

Discussant: Kristiaan Kerstens Abel Smith

Theatre (23)

9:45am

– 10:15am Early Career Researchers Day - Morning Tea

Abel Smith Theatre Foyer

(23)

10:15am

– 11:45am

Session Chair:

Luiza Bădin

Laura López-Torres

Moira Scerri

Measuring school demand in the presence of spatial dependence. A conditional approach. (ID 026)

Discussant: Alicia Rambaldi A generalised approach to measuring service productivity (ID 002) Discussant: Sergio Perelman

Abel Smith Theatre (23)

11:45am – 12:45pm

Early Career Researchers Day - Lunch

Rooftop Café level 3

Collin Clark

building (39)

12:45pm – 2:30pm

Broadcast of the UQ Colin Clark Memorial

Lecture

Dale Jorgenson, Harvard University, USA

Australia and The Growth of the World Economy

Abel Smith Theatre (23)

2:30pm –

3:00pm

Early Career Researchers Day - Afternoon Tea Abel Smith

Theatre Foyer

(23)

3:00pm –

4:30pm

Session Chair:

Kristiaan Kerstens

Lesego Sekwati

Albane Christine Tarnaud

Investigating the technical efficiency of SMEs in non-resource sectors in a resource dependent and developing economy: application of

DEA bootstrap (ID 203). Discussant: Knox Lovell

Could investors in equity funds be risk-lovers? How to detect unexpected investors’ preferences with Data Envelopment Analysis. (ID 156). Discussant: John Quiggin

Abel Smith Theatre (23)

4:30pm

– 5:00pm

Early Career Researchers Day - Afternoon Tea Abel Smith

Theatre Foyer (23)

5:00pm

– 6:30pm

Session Chair:

Knox Lovell

Liang-Cheng Zhang

Felisitas Defung

Scope economies in Australian distance education (ID 133) Discussant: Chris O’Donnell

Regulatory Reforms and Bank Efficiency in Indonesia: A Two-Stage Analysis (ID 131) Discussant: Emili Grifell Tatjé Abel Smith

Theatre (23)

7:00pm Early Career Researchers Day - ECR Dinner

Saint Lucy’s (28/29)

UQ Campus

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Day 1 – Wednesday 9th July 2014

Time Session Presenter Title Location

7:30 am –

8:50am Tea and Coffee

Abel Smith Theatre

Foyer (23) 7:30am

– 9:00am

Registration Abel Smith

Theatre Foyer (23)

9:00am -

9:15am

Day 1 - Welcome Address Professor Joanne Wright, Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Abel Smith Theatre

(23) 9:15am

– 10:30am

Day 1 - Keynote Address Dale Jorgenson (Harvard University), ‘Australia and the World KLEMS Initiative’ Chair: Prasada Rao

Abel Smith Theatre

(23)

10:30am –

11:00am Day 1 - Morning Tea & Coffee Break

Sir Llew Edwards

Foyer (14)

11:00am –

1:00pm

Parallel Session 1.1.A: Agriculture Session Chair: Kolawole Ogundari

1. Bright Owusu Asante

2. Freda Asem 3. Omphile Temoso 4. Kolawole

Ogundari

1. Mix inefficiency and its determinants in integrated crops-livestock production systems in Ghana: A nonparametric approach (ID 084)

2. Technical Efficiency of Smallholder Horticultural Farmers in Ghana (ID 079) 3. Agricultural Productivity, Efficiency and Growth in a Semi-Arid Country: Case Study of Botswana, 1979-

2011 (ID 065) 4. A meta-regression analysis of frontier efficiency estimates from Africa (ID 032)

Sir Llew

Edwards

(14) –

Room 115

11:00am –

1:00pm

Parallel Session 1.1.B: Banking and Finance Session Chair: Luiza Bădin

1. Thanh Nguyen 2. Jin-Li Hu 3. Mei-ying Huang 4. Luiza Bădin

1. Comparison of efficiency and production technology among the banking systems of Vietnam, China and India: a stochastic cost and revenue meta-frontier approach (ID 161)

2. A Comparative Study of Disaggregate Input Efficiency of Banks in Taiwan and Mainland China: An Application of SFA (ID 068)

3. Sequential metafrontier cost Malmquist productivity index: an application to commercial banks in Asian countries (ID 122)

4. A Conditional Nonparametric Analysis for Assessing the Impact of Stock Volatility on the Efficiency of Listed Commercial Banks (ID 193)

Sir Llew

Edwards

(14) –

Room 116

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11:00am –

1:00pm

Parallel Session 1.1.C: Theory Session Chair: Finn Førsund

1a. Kristiaan Kerstens 1b. Ignace Van de Woestyne 2. Sungko Li 3. Giannis Karagiannis 4. Finn Førsund

1. Local and Global Scale Characteristics in Non-Convex Nonparametric Technologies (ID 075) 2. Benchmark Shadow Prices for an Extreme Point in Data Envelopment Analysis (ID 213) 3. Productivity Measurement in Radial DEA Models with Multiple Constant Inputs (ID 091) 4. Industry Productivity Measures Based on the Vintage Model (ID 116)

Sir Llew

Edwards

(14) –

Room 216

11:00am –

1:00pm

Parallel Session 1.1.D: Energy and Regulation Session Chair: Tommy Lundgren

1. Shanshan Zhang 2. Yoonhwan OH 3. Osiris Jorge

Parcero 4. Shanshan Zhang

1. Measuring firm level energy efficiency in Swedish industry (ID 097) 2. Evaluating productivity change using an unbalanced panel data approach: case of electric generation

companies in U.S. and Korea (ID 187) 3. Productivity and Efficiency of Leading European Electricity Companies in a time of Economic Downturn

(ID 205) 4. Evaluating firm level energy efficiency performance in Swedish manufacturing with linear programming

models (ID 099)

Sir Llew

Edwards

(14) –

Room 217

11:00am –

1:00pm

Invited Session 1.1.E: KLEMS Applications Session Chair: Marcel Timmer

1. Tsu-Tan Fu 2. Kenta Ikeuchi 3. Harry Wu 4. Hak K. Pyo

1. The Industry-Level Productivity Comparison between Korea-Taiwan: evidence from Korea and Taiwan KLEMS Database (ID 127)

2. The Structural Causes of Japan's Two Lost Decades (ID 144) 3. China’s Post-Reform Growth, Structural Change and Productivity Performance (ID 169) 4. Real - Financial Linkages in the Korean Economy: A Financial Social Accounting Matrix Approach (ID 087)

Sir Llew

Edwards

(14) –

Room 219

1:00pm –

2:00pm Day 1 - Lunch

Rooftop Café level

3 Collin Clark

building (39)

2:00pm –

3:30pm

Parallel Session 1.2.A: Macro Applications Session Chair: Gaetan de Rassenfosse

1. Kelly Trinh 2. Michael Graff 3. Gaetan de

Rassenfosse

1. Non-parametric Approach to Economic Growth and Convergence (ID 192) 2. Causal Links between Financial Activity and Economic Productivity Growth: New Empirical Evidence

(ID 112) 3. How well do we account for intangible capital: An exploratory study using trademarks and design rights

(ID 017)

Sir Llew

Edwards

(14) –

Room 115

2:00pm –

3:30pm

Parallel Session 1.2.B: Banking and Finance Session Chair: Dang Thanh

1. Nimesh Salike 2. Yen Bui 3. Dang Thanh 4. Dang Thanh

1. Determinants of Bank Profitability: Role of asset quality in Asia (ID 200) 2. Evaluating the performance of Australian superannuation funds: A non-parametric approach (ID 212) 3. Ratio Analysis for Performance Evaluation: The Case of Vietnamese Banks (ID 029) 4. Decomposing Productivity Growth with Unbalanced Panel Data and DEA: Application on the OECD

banking systems (ID 030)

Sir Llew

Edwards

(14) –

Room 116

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2:00pm –

3:30pm

Parallel Session 1.2.C: Theory Session Chair: Prasada Rao

1. Marcel Timmer 2. Bert M. Balk 3. Prasada Rao

1. Is Technological Change Skill Biased? A Global Value Chain Perspective (ID 010) 2. The Many Decompositions of Productivity Change (2014 version) (ID 056) 3. Aggregation and Productivity Measurement with Multiple Outputs and Inputs: Analytics and Empirics

(ID 083)

Sir Llew

Edwards

(14) –

Room 216

2:00pm –

3:30pm

Parallel Session 1.2.D: Policy and Regulation Session Chair: Davide Vannoni

1. Gerald Granderson 2. Sergio Perelman 3. Davide Vannoni

1. The Impact of Phase 1 Compliance with the 1990 Clean Air Act on Total Factor Productivity Growth in the Electric Utility Industry (ID 001)

2. Regulatory Incentives to Water Losses Reduction: The case of England and Wales (ID 069) 3. Corruption, Accountability and Efficiency: An Application to Municipal Solid Waste Services (ID 158)

Sir Llew

Edwards

(14) –

Room 217

2:00pm –

3:30pm

Invited Session 1.2.E: Wine Industry Performance Session Chair: Tim Coelli

1a. Boris Bravo-Ureta 1b. Victor Moreira 2. Euan Fleming 3. Tim Coelli

1. Technical Efficiency and Unobserved Heterogeneity for a Cross Section of Wine Grape Producers: A Final Look (ID 060)

2. The New World challenge: Performance trends in wine production in major wine-exporting countries in the

2000s 3. The Technical Efficiency of Wine Grape Growers in the Murray – Darling Basin in Australia. (ID 175)

Sir Llew

Edwards

(14) –

Room 219

2:00pm –

3:30pm

Parallel Session 1.2.F: Miscellaneous Applications Session Chair: Ying Chu Ng

1. Bernadetta Dwi Suatmi

2. Ying Chu Ng 3. Wen-Bin Lin

1. Liberalization Reform and Technical Efficiency in the Indonesian Manufacturing Sector (ID 125) 2. Effects of Chinese Enterprise Reforms on Efficiency and Productivity: Revisited (ID 067) 3. The Players’ Efficiency Monitoring Systems for Match-Fixing Events in CPBL (ID 027)

Sir Llew

Edwards

(14) –

Room 132

3:30pm –

4:00pm Day 1 - Afternoon Tea & Coffee Break

Sir Llew

Edwards

Foyer (14)

4:00pm –

5:30pm

Plenary Keynotes Session on DEA Chair: Shawna Grosskopf

Rolf Färe (Oregon State University) ‘Pricing Nonmarketed Goods’

Victor Podinovski (Warwick University)

‘Scale characteristics in DEA: a unifying framework’

Abel Smith

Lecture

Theatre

(23)

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4:00pm –

5:30pm

Plenary Keynotes Session on SFA Chair: Robin Sickles

Subal Kumbhakar (Binghamton University) ‘Productivity Index based on the Directional Output Distance Function with Undesirable Outputs: Direction, Normalization and the

Jacobian’

Peter Schmidt (Michigan State University) ‘A Post-Truncation Parameterization of Truncated Normal Technical Inefficiency’

Social

Sciences

Building

(24) –

Room

S304

6:00pm Welcome Reception/Social Dinner

Saint Lucy’s (28/29)

UQ Campus

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Day 2 - Thursday 10th July 2014

Time Session Presenter Title Location

8:00am –

9:00am Registration

Abel Smith Theatre

Foyer (23)

9:00am –

11:00am

Parallel Session 2.1.A: Agriculture Session Chair: Victor Podinovski

1. Bethany Burke 2. Nazrul Islam 3. Aziz A. Karimov 4. Victor Podinovski

1. Exploring the technical efficiency of dairy farms in Victoria (ID 062) 2. Climate Change and Farm Business Productivity in Australian Broadacre Agriculture (ID 105) 3. Farming efficiency in mixed smallholder crop-livestock agricultural systems in Uganda (ID 218) 4. Tailor-made DEA models: an analysis of European farming without price aggregation (ID 135)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 115

9:00am –

11:00am

Parallel Session 2.1.B: Banking and Finance Session Chair: Yung-Lieh Yang

1. Ana Maria Reyna Bernal

2. Phuong Anh Nguyen 3. Alex LaPlante 4. Yung-Lieh Yang

1. Profit changes in the insurance market under an undesirable output approach, the Mexican case (ID 003) 2. Productivity and Efficiency of Vietnamese Banking System: New Evidence using Färe-Primont Index

Analysis (ID 119) 3. Measuring Bank Branch Growth Efficiency and Growth Trends with a new DEA Model structure and

Malmquist-like Techniques (ID 028) 4. Analyze productivity and risk of Taiwan banks with meta frontier environment productivity index (ID 066)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 116

9:00am –

11:00am

Invited Session 2.1.C: Endogeneity in SFA Session Chair: Subal Kumbhakar

1. Chris O'Donnell 2. Christopher Parmeter 3. Hung-Jen Wang 4. Subal Kumbhakar

1. Technologies, Markets and Behaviour: Some Implications for Estimating Efficiency and Productivity Change (ID 063)

2. Incorporating non-positive Profit in a Translog Profit Function (ID 074) 3. Treatment Effect Stochastic Frontier Models with Endogenous Selection (Id 154) 4. Endogeneity in stochastic distance function models (ID 222)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 216

9:00am –

11:00am

Parallel Session 2.1.D: Education and IT Session Chair: Élisé Wendlassida Miningou

1. Joseph Chien 2. Fabian Von Scheele 3. Roger Carrington 4. Élisé Wendlassida

Miningou

1. Use of a prototype linked employer-employee dataset for productivity analysis (ID 045) 2. Complementarities Matter: A Search for Patterns of Effective IT-use at the Individual Level (ID 055) 3. Australian university productivity growth and shadow prices for university teaching and research (ID 049) 4. Matching the education system to the needs of the economy: evidence from Burkina Faso (ID 132)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 217

9:00am –

11:00am

Invited Session 2.1.E: China Session Chair: Tsu-Tan Fu

1. Chia-Hung Sun 2. Rui-Zhi Pang 3. James Laurenceson 4. Tsu-Tan Fu

1. Ownership, Governance, and Bank Performance in China (ID 122) 2. The Analysis on Environmental TFP and Influencing Factors of China’s Service Sector: 1998-2010

(ID 085) 3. Transitive estimates and an exhaustive decomposition of provincial productivity change in China (ID 163) 4. A SBM measurement of Chinese bank efficiency with considering undesirable output (ID 221)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 219

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9:00am -

11:00am

Parallel Session 2.1.F: Miscellaneous Session Chair: Robin Sickles

1. Alfons Palangkaraya 2. Christopher Parmeter 3. Giannis Karagiannis 4. Robin Sickles

1. Is science-based innovation more productive? A firm-level study (ID 215) 2. Incorporating nonpositive profit in a translog profit function (Id 074) 3. Assessing Research Productivity at Faculty and Department Level: The Case of Greek Departments of

Economics (ID 093) 4. Direct, Indirect and Total Elasticities of Substitution and Complementarity (ID 107)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 132

11:00am –

11:30am Day 2 - Morning Tea & Coffee Break

Sir Llew Edwards

Foyer (14) 11:30am

– 12:45pm

Day 2 - Keynote Address: William Greene (New York University), ‘True Random Effects’ Chair: Chris O’Donnell

Abel Smith Theatre

(23)

12:45pm –

2:00pm Day 2 - Lunch

Rooftop Café level 3 Collin Clark

building (39)

2:00pm -

3:30pm

Parallel Session 2.2.A: Macro Applications Session Chair: Gary Ferrier

1. Fabian Von Scheele 2. Kevin Fox 3. Gary Ferrier

1. Productivity Illusion: the Hidden Time Distortion as a Source for Productivity Decrease in Economic Organizations. (ID 018)

2. The Contribution of Research and Innovation to Productivity and Economic Growth (ID 129) 3. Corruption: Impediment or lubricant of economic growth? (ID 153)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 115

2:00pm –

3:30pm

Parallel Session 2.2.B: Environmental Session Chair: Hervé Dakpo

1. Andreia Zanella 2. Md Azad 3. Hervé Dakpo

1. An enhanced Malmquist-Luenberger index to assess productivity change in the presence of undesirable outputs (ID 020)

2. Luenberger Environmental Indicator: A New Approach to Measuring Productivity and Efficiency (ID 079) 3. Integrating undesirable outputs in production technology: The case of greenhouse gas emissions in

French meat sheep farming (ID 104)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 116

2:00pm –

3:30pm

Parallel Session 2.2.C: Theory Session Chair: Subal Kumbhakar

1. Gholamreza Hajargasht

2. Hung-pin Lai 3. Subal Kumbhakar

1. Flexible Productivity Analysis (ID 035) 2. Semiparametric Penalized Moment Estimation of Multiple-Output Stochastic Frontier Production

Functions (ID 089) 3. Dissections of Input and Output Efficiency: A Generalized Stochastic Frontier Model (ID 082)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 216

2:00pm –

3:30pm

Parallel Session 2.2.D: Miscellaneous Applications Session Chair: Russel Cooper

1. Roberto Jara-Rojas 2. Atakelty Hailu 3. Russel Cooper

1. Managerial Performance and Technical Efficiency: a Meta-Analysis of the Frontier Literature (ID 186) 2. APEAR: A package for productivity and efficiency analysis in R (ID 139) 3. The Productivity of the Internet Measured from a Consumer Perspective (ID 086)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 217

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2:00pm –

3:30pm

Invited Session 2.2.E: Performance in Fishery Session Chair: Peggy Schrobback

1. Benjamin Fissel 2. John Walden 3. Peggy Schrobback

1. Evaluating Changes in Total Factor Productivity in the Amendment 80 Catcher/Processor Fishery (ID 211)

2. Productivity Change in the Mid-Atlantic Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ) Fishery: 1980-2011 (ID 189)

3. Production efficiency and capacity utilisation of the Moreton Bay Sydney rock oyster industry (ID 041)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 219

2:00pm –

3:30pm

Parallel Session 2.2.F: Manufacturing Session Chair: Robin Sickles

1. Erwin Lin 2. Teresa Romano 3. Robin Sickles

1. Estimating performance of rail transport by bootstrap data envelopment analysis (ID 025) 2. Benchmarking gas distribution companies in Italy: challenges and opportunities (ID 111) 3. Impact of ICT Capital on Manufacturing Productivity: Evidence from Turkey (ID 140)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 132

3:30pm –

4:00pm Day 2 - Afternoon Tea Coffee Break

Sir Llew Edwards

Foyer (14)

4:00pm –

5:30pm

Plenary Keynotes Session on SFA Chair: Peter Schmidt

Robin Sickles (Rice University/Loughborough University/The University of Queensland)

‘ Productivity Measurement, Model Averaging, and World Trends in Growth and Inequality’

Paul W Wilson (Clemson University) ‘ Learning from SFA’

Abel Smith Lecture Theatre

(23)

4:00pm –

5:30pm

Plenary Keynotes Session on DEA Chair: Victor Podinovski

Shawna Grosskopf (Oregon State University) ‘Efficiency Models for Education: with some

Applications’

Chiang Kao (National Cheng Kung University) ‘ Network Data Envelopment Analysis: Models and Properties’

Social Sciences Building (24) –

Room S304

6:30pm Day 2 - Gala Dinner

The

Landing at

Dockside

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Day 3 – Friday 11th July, 2014 Time Session Presenter Title Location 8:00am

– 9:00am

Registration Abel Smith

Theatre Foyer (23)

9:00am –

11:00am

Parallel Session 3.1.A: Agriculture Session Chair: Kondo Katsunobu

1. Thong Ho 2. Farid Khan 3. Shamsul Arifeen

Khan Mamu 4. Kondo Katsunobu

1. Labour dependence, income diversification, rural credit and technical efficiency of small-holder coffee farms in the Dak Lak Province, Vietnam (ID 103)

2. Productivity and R&D in Australian Broadacre Agriculture: A Semi-parametric Smooth Coefficient Model (ID 204)

3. Effect of the access to ICT on outputs in Chinese agriculture: An empirical analysis using panel data (ID 061) 4. Panel unit root tests for convergence in Japanese rice productivity (ID 124)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 115

9:00am –

11:00am

Parallel Session 3.1.B: Education Session Chair: Daniel Santín

1. Jose Manuel Cordero Ferrera

2. Kathy Hayes 3. Boon Lee 4. Daniel Santín

1. Educational systems under scrutiny: an application using robust nonparametric frontier methods (ID 021) 2. Will Weighted-student Funding Enhance Equity in Texas? A Simulation using DEA (ID 174) 3. Performance Analysis of Primary Schools in Australia: A Case Study of Brisbane Schools (ID 050) 4. What makes an efficient classroom? Evidence for primary education in Spain (ID 006)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 116

9:00am –

11:00am

Parallel Session 3.1.C: Theory Session Chair: Giannis Karagiannis

1. Deockhyun Ryu 2. Hideyuki Mizobuchi 3. Gabriela Sicilia 4. Giannis Karagiannis

1. How to measure a spillover effect of public capital stock: a spatial stochastic frontier model (ID 012) 2. Multiple Direction Vectors for Measuring Biased Technical Change (ID 120) 3. Playing hide and seek. How to tackle the endogeneity problem in empirical DEA applications? (ID 005) 4. Towards A Composite Public Sector Performance Indicator (ID 090)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 216

9:00am –

11:00am

Parallel Session 3.1.D: Miscellaneous Applications Session Chair: Hsin-Hung Wu

1. Guanyu Zheng 2. Charles-Henri

DiMaria 3. Hsin-Hung Wu

1. Trade over distance for New Zealand firms: measurement and implications (ID 078) 2. Be happy, be productive: the relationship between productivity and well-being in Western Europe (ID 039) 3. Using Bayesian Network to Analyze Tourists’ Behaviors – A Case of Brand’s Health Museum (ID 121)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 217

9:00am –

11:00am

Invited Session 3.1.E: Semi and Non-parametric SFA: Endogeneity & other aspects Session Chair: Léopold Simar

1. Valentin Zelenyuk 2. Reza Hajargasht 3. Christopher

Parmeter 4. Léopold Simar

1. Nonparametric Least Squares Methods for Stochastic Frontier Models (ID 038) 2. A Semiparametric Stochastic Frontier Model with Correlated Effects (ID 219) 3. Orthogonality conditions for identification of joint production technologies Axiomatic nonparametric approach

to the estimation of stochastic distance functions (ID 073) 4. Unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity in nonparametric frontier estimation (ID 220)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 219

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9:00am –

11:00am

Session 3.1.F: Miscellaneous Applications Session Chair: Chris O'Donnell

1. Luke Emeka Okafor

2. Moriah Bostian 3a. Boris Bravo-

Ureta 3b. Chris O'Donnell

1. Do the use of Imported Inputs and Absorptive Capacity Matter for Productivity? Evidence from manufacturing firms in Ghana (ID 216)

2. Valuing water quality tradeoffs at the farm level: An integrated approach (ID 217) 3. A New Look at the Decomposition of U.S. Agricultural Productivity Growth: Are Climatic Effects Important?

(ID 059)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 132

11:00am –

11:30am Day 3 - Morning Tea & Coffee Break

Sir Llew Edwards

Foyer (14)

11:30am –

12:45pm

Keynote Address Léopold Simar (Université Catholique de Louvain), ‘Econometric Approaches to Nonparametric Frontier Models: where we are and where we go?’

Chair: Paul W Wilson

Abel Smith Theatre

(23)

12:45pm –

2:00pm Day 3 – Lunch

Rooftop Café level

3 Collin Clark

building (39)

2:00pm –

3:30pm

Parallel Session 3.2.A: Banking and Finance Session Chair: David Tripe

1. Hai Yen (Emily) Pham

2. David Tripe 3. Natalya Zelenyuk

1. Do Investors Value Firm Efficiency? Evidence from the Australian Context (ID 009) 2. Measuring the effect of bad loans on bank efficiency: how can we do this best? (ID 013) 3. Ownership Structure and Efficiency in Banking: The Case of Ukraine (ID 223)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 115

2:00pm –

3:30pm

Parallel Session 3.2.B: Health and Education Session Chair: Paul W. Wilson

1. Emili Grifell - Tatjé 2. Fanny Goude 3. Paul W. Wilson

1. Productivity, Firm Value Creation and its Distribution: The Spanish Health Care Case (ID 070) 2. Using health-outcomes measures for analysing cost and quality in health care (ID 092) 3. Assessing the Effect of High Performance Computing Capabilities on Academic Research Output (ID 114)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 116

2:00pm –

3:30pm

Parallel Session 3.2.C: Theory Session Chair: Subal Kumbhakar

1. Subal Kumbhakar 2. Robin Sickles 3. Subal Kumbhakar

1. A Semiparametric Stochastic Cost Frontier Model with Time-varying Coefficients Subject to Regularity Conditions (ID 015)

2. Spatial Autoregressive and Spatial Durbin Stochastic Frontier Models for Panel Data with Asymmetric Efficiency Spillovers (ID 109)

3. A Revenue System Model with Technical and Allocative Inefficiency (ID 150)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 216

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2:00pm –

3:30pm

Parallel Session 3.2.D: Efficiency in Manufacturing Session Chair: Thai Nguyen

1. Addisu Lashitew 2. Irina Ipatova 3. Thai Nguyen

1. A Cost Frontier Approach to Analysing Productivity Change in Ethiopian Manufacturing (ID 142) 2. Technical efficiency of Russian plastic and rubber production firms (ID 034) 3. Firm dynamics and productivity growth: a case study of Australian Manufacturing and Business Services

(ID 044)

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Room 217

3:30pm –

4:00pm Day 3 - Afternoon Tea & Coffee Break

Sir Llew Edwards

Foyer (14) 4:00pm

– 5:10pm

Round Table/General Panel Discussion: Productivity, Regulation and Public Policy Chair: Knox Lovell

Panellists: Dean Parham, Flavio Menezes, Marcel Timmer, John Quiggin;

Abel Smith Theatre

(23) 5:10pm

– 5:25pm

Closing Remarks Abel Smith

Theatre (23)

5:30pm -

8:30pm Farewell Reception

Sir Llew Edwards

(14) – Terrace Room