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  1. PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS SOFTWARE: AN EXPLORATORY BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE OPTIONS

    Article • Journal of Economic Surveys, June 2018, Wiley

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  2. Testing general and special Färe-Primont indices: A proposal for public and private sector synthetic indices of European regional expenditures and tourism

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, May 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  3. Enumeration algorithms for FDH directional distance functions under different returns to scale assumptions

    Article • Annals of Operations Research, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  4. Global and local scale characteristics in convex and nonconvex nonparametric technologies: A first empirical exploration

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, June 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  5. Frontier-based vs. traditional mutual fund ratings: A first backtesting analysis

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, April 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  6. A note on a variant of radial measure capable of dealing with negative inputs and outputs in DEA

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, April 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  7. Comparing Malmquist and Hicks–Moorsteen productivity indices: Exploring the impact of unbalanced vs. balanced panel data

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, March 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  8. SOLUTION METHODS FOR NONCONVEX FREE DISPOSAL HULL MODELS: A REVIEW AND SOME CRITICAL COMMENTS

    Article • Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, February 2014, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  9. Nonparametric cost and revenue functions under constant economies of scale: an enumeration approach for the single output or input case

    Article • International Transactions in Operational Research, January 2014, Wiley

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  10. Portfolio selection with skewness: A comparison of methods and a generalized one fund result

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, October 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  11. Static efficiency decompositions and capacity utilization: integrating economic and technical capacity notions

    Article • Applied Economics, August 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  12. Backtesting superfund portfolio strategies based on frontier‐based mutual fund ratings

    Article • May 2013, Wiley

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  13. Static efficiency decompositions and capacity utilization: integrating economic and technical capacity notions

    Article • Applied Economics, November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  14. Total factor productivity growth and convergence in the petroleum industry: Empirical analysis testing for convexity

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, September 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  15. Benchmarking mean-variance portfolios using a shortage function: the choice of direction vector affects rankings!

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, September 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  16. Returns to growth in a nonparametric DEA approach

    Article • International Transactions in Operational Research, March 2012, Wiley

    Biresh Sahoo, Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  17. Technology-based total factor productivity and benchmarking: New proposals and an application

    Article • Omega, December 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  18. Negative data in DEA: a simple proportional distance function approach

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, July 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  19. Bank productivity and performance groups: A decomposition approach based upon the Luenberger productivity indicator

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, June 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  20. Directional measurement of technical efficiency of production: An axiomatic approach

    Article • Economic Modelling, May 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  21. Non-parametric frontier estimates of mutual fund performance using C- and L-moments: Some specification tests

    Article • Journal of Banking & Finance, May 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  22. Geometric representation of the mean–variance–skewness portfolio frontier based upon the shortage function

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, April 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  23. EXACT RELATIONS BETWEEN FOUR DEFINITIONS OF PRODUCTIVITY INDICES AND INDICATORS

    Article • Bulletin of Economic Research, March 2011, Wiley

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  24. THE HICKS-MOORSTEEN PRODUCTIVITY INDEX SATISFIES THE DETERMINATENESS AXIOM

    Article • Manchester School, December 2010, Wiley

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  25. Tangency capacity notions based upon the profit and cost functions: A non-parametric approach and a general comparison

    Article • Economic Modelling, September 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  26. Comparing efficiency across markets: An extension and critique of the methodology

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, September 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  27. Portfolio performance gauging in discrete time using a Luenberger productivity indicator

    Article • Journal of Banking & Finance, August 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  28. Portfolio selection in multidimensional general and partial moment space

    Article • Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, April 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  29. The Luenberger productivity indicator: An economic specification leading to infeasibilities

    Article • Economic Modelling, May 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  30. Multi-horizon Markowitz portfolio performance appraisals: A general approach☆

    Article • Omega, February 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  31. Infeasibility and Directional Distance Functions with Application to the Determinateness of the Luenberger Productivity Indicator

    Article • Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  32. Erratum to “Transit costs and cost efficiency: Bootstrapping non-parametric frontiers” [Research in Transport Economics 23 (2008) 53–64]

    Article • Research in Transportation Economics, January 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  33. Ecological Benchmarking to Explore Alternative Fishing Schemes to Protect Endangered Species by Substitution: The Danish Demersal Fishery in the North Sea

    Article • Environmental and Resource Economics, December 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  34. Hedonic price function estimation in economics and marketing: revisiting Lancaster’s issue of “noncombinable” goods

    Article • Annals of Operations Research, May 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  35. INCENTIVE REGULATION AND THE ROLE OF CONVEXITY IN BENCHMARKING ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION: ECONOMISTS VERSUS ENGINEERS

    Article • Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, May 2008, Wiley

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  36. Applied production analysis unveiled in open peer review: introductory remarks

    Article • Journal of Productivity Analysis, March 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  37. Transit costs and cost efficiency: Bootstrapping non-parametric frontiers

    Article • Research in Transportation Economics, January 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  38. Mean-Variance-Skewness Portfolio Performance Gauging: A General Shortage Function and Dual Approach

    Article • Management Science, January 2007, INFORMS

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  39. Temporal technical and profit efficiency measurement: Definitions, duality and aggregation results

    Article • International Journal of Production Economics, September 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  40. A short-run Johansen industry model for common-pool resources: planning a fishery's industrial capacity to curb overfishing

    Article • European Review of Agricultural Economics, July 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  41. Input, output and graph technical efficiency measures on non-convex FDH models with various scaling laws: An integrated approach based upon implicit enumeration algorithms

    Article • Top, June 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  42. Short- and Long-Run Credit Constraints in French Agriculture: A Directional Distance Function Framework Using Expenditure-Constrained Profit Functions

    Article • American Journal of Agricultural Economics, May 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  43. Non-convex Technologies and Cost Functions: Definitions, Duality and Nonparametric Tests of Convexity (Journal of Economics 81(2):155–192)

    Article • Journal of Economics, April 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  44. A Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator: its relation to the Hicks-Moorsteen productivity index and the Luenberger productivity indicator

    Article • Economic Theory, May 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  45. Single-Period Markowitz Portfolio Selection, Performance Gauging, and Duality: A Variation on the Luenberger Shortage Function

    Article • Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  46. Non-convex Technologies and Cost Functions: Definitions, Duality and Nonparametric Tests of Convexity

    Article • Journal of Economics, December 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  47. Luenberger and Malmquist Productivity Indices: Theoretical Comparisons and Empirical Illustration

    Article • Bulletin of Economic Research, September 2003, Wiley

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  48. L’influence des contraintes de financement de court terme sur le profit des exploitations agricoles. Une approche non paramétrique

    Article • Économie & prévision, January 2003, PERSEE Program

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  49. Public transit performance: What does one learn from frontier studies?

    Article • Transport Reviews, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  50. The Malmquist Productivity Index and Plant Capacity Utilization

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Economics, June 2000, Wiley

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  51. Rationalisation de l'offre de soins en chirurgie. Réduction des surcapacités et réallocation sectorielle

    Article • Revue économique, May 1999, JSTOR

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  52. A new criterion for technical efficiency measures: non-monotonicity across dimensions axioms

    Article • Managerial and Decision Economics, February 1999, Wiley

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  53. Estimating returns to scale using non-parametric deterministic technologies: A new method based on goodness-of-fit

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, February 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  54. Rationalisation de l'offre de soins en chirurgie. Réduction des surcapacités et réallocation sectorielle

    Article • Revue économique, January 1999, PERSEE Program

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  55. Radial and nonradial static efficiency decompositions: a focus on congestion measurement

    Article • Transportation Research Part B Methodological, June 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  56. The choice of a technical efficiency measure on the free disposal hull reference technology: A comparison using US banking data

    Article • European Journal of Operational Research, March 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  57. Technical efficiency measurement and explanation of French urban transit companies

    Article • Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice, November 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  58. Cost efficiency of Belgian local governments: A comparative analysis of FDH, DEA, and econometric approaches

    Article • Regional Science and Urban Economics, April 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  59. Radial and nonradial measures of technical efficiency: An empirical illustration for Belgian local governments using an FDH reference technology

    Article • Journal of Productivity Analysis, March 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens

  60. Explaining differences in productive efficiency: An application to Belgian municipalities

    Article • Public Choice, September 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens