• C.A. Knox Lovell (Previous JPA Editor), Looking Back: Advances During the Past “Baker’s Decade”
  
• Robin Sickles (Current JPA Editor), Looking Forward to Your New Research
  

• Kevin J. Fox, Incentive Indexes for Regulated Industries
  
• Peter Bogetoft, DEA Based Auctions
  
• Denis Lawrence, Regulating Electricity Networks: The ABC of Setting X in New Zealand
  

• Erwin Diewert, The Role of ICT in Australia’s Economic Performance: Assessing the Assumptions
  

• Dean Parham, ICT: An Engine or Enabler of Australia’s Productivity Growth?
  

• Kenneth Carlaw, ICT in Australian Economic Performance: An Investigation of the Assumptions Influencing Productivity Estimates
  

• Nick Oulton, ICT and Productivity Growth in the UK: An Industry View and Some Comparisons with the US
  

• Robert G. Chambers, Superlative Productivity Indicators for Stochastic Technologies: The Risk-Neutral Case
  
• Subal C. Kumbhakar, Risk Preferences, Price Uncertainties, and Production Risk: A Joint Analysis with Technical Inefficiency
  
• William Griffiths, Estimating State Contingent Production Frontiers
  

1. Effects of ICT Use on the Performance of Australian Firms: Evidence from a Business Longitudinal Data Set
   Paul Gretton and Jyothi Gali
   
2. R&D, Technology Transfer, Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth of Taiwan's ICT Firms
   Vei-Lin Chan and Michael Liu
   
3. Electronic Commerce, R&D, Externalities, and Productivity - An Empirical Study of Taiwanese Manufacturing Firms
   Jong-Rong Chen, Ting-Kun Liu
   
4. Role of Information Technology in Achieving Knowledge-Based Economy Through Malaysia's Manufacturing Sector Total Factor Productivity Growth
   Elsadig Ahmed
   

1. Ways of Allowing for Correlation of Inefficiency over Time in Models in which Inefficiency Depends on Firm Characteristics
   Peter Schmidt, Antonio Alvarez, Christine Amsler and Luis Orea
   
2. Stochastic Frontier Models with Correlated Error Components
   Murray Smith
   
3. A Method of Moments Estimator for a Stochastic Frontier Model with Errors in Variables
   Hung-Jen Wang and Yi-Yi Chen
   

1. Controlling for Environmental Influence and Statistical Noise in Bank Performance
   Necmi Avkiran
   
2. Effects of the Financial Capital on the Efficiency of the Colombian Banking System
   Dairo Estrada and Poldy Osorio
   
3. Joint Estimation of Technical Efficiency with Production Risk for Multi-Output Banks under a Panel Data Cost Frontier Model
   Tai-Hsin Huang
   
4. The Relative Efficiency of Banks in Lending and Borrowing: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis
   Gerhardus van der Westhuizen
   

Session 1 D School Education

1. Competition and Efficiency: The Impact of Charter Schools on Public School Performance
   Shawna Grosskopf, Kathy Hayes and Lori Taylor
   
2. Human Capital In Agricultural Sector Of Ukraine - An Educational Efficiency Analysis
   Alexej Lissitsa
   
3. Does Fiscal Decentralization Improve The Results Of Public Education?: The Colombian Case
   Ligia Melo
   
4. Explaining Efficiency Differences of New Zealand Secondary Schools
   Robert Alexander and Mohammad Jaforullah
   

Contributed Paper Session 2: Wednesday 4.00 – 5.30

1. Testing the Relative Productivities Approach to Real Exchange Rate Determination: An Application to Taiwan
   Karen Hooper, Richard Brown and Alicia Rambaldi
   
2. International-price and Terms-of-trade Contributions to Changes in Factor Productivity: Cross-country Comparisons
   Claudio Sfreddo
   
3. Technological Change, Technological Catch-up, and Capital Deepening: Relative Contributions to Growth and Convergence During 90's
   Valentin Zelenyuk and Oleg Badunenko
   
4. Estimating TFP Growth Using Dynamic Equilibrium Restrictions of the Solow Model
   Debasis Bandyopadhyay and Alan Rogers
   

1. Measuring the Shadow Price of Irrigation Water in Rice Production: An Application of the Stochastic Choice Type Model
   Yoji Kunimitsu
   
2. On Estimation of Stochastic Production-Frontiers with Self-Selectivity: Jasmine and Non-Jasmine Rice in Thailand
   Songsak Sriboonchitta and Aree Wiboonpongse
   
3. The Effects of Production Inputs, Technical Efficiency and Other Factors on Jasmine and Non-Jasmine Rice Yields in Thailand
   Songsak Sriboonchitta and Aree Wiboonpongse
   
4. An Investigation of Production Risk, Risk Preferences and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from Rainfed Lowland Rice Farms in the Philippines
   Renato Villano, Christopher O’Donnell and George Battese
   

1. Commercial Bank Performance Before and After Financial Holding Companies' Establishment in Taiwan
   Yu-cheng Chen, Ling Sun and Chih-wei Peng
   
2. The Efficiency and Productiity of Securities Firms in Taiwan
   Mei-Ying Huang
   
3. The Cost of Inefficiency: An Empirical Study into the Relative Efficiency of a Financial Institution's Branches
   David Tripe and David Murray
   

1. Performance Improvement Management: A New DEA Software for Managing Performance of Organisational Units
   Ali Emrouznejad and Emmanuel Thanassoulis
   
2. On Measurement of Management Performance: Output-orientation or Behavioral-orientation?
   Yingjun Feng
   
3. A Nonparametric Approach to Measure the Consumption Efficiency in the Price-Characteristics Space Based on the Revealed Preference Theory
   Jeong-Dong Lee, Dong-Hyun Oh and Chan-Soo Park
   
4. Bridging the Gap between the FDH and VRS Technologies: New Models Based on Selective Convexity
   Victor Podinovski
   

Contributed Paper Session 3: Thursday 9.00 – 10.30

1. Productivity Growth in the Australian Electricity Industry: A Panel Data Envelopment Analysis using Distance Function
   Reza Fathollahzadeh A. and Deepak Sharm
   
2. An Analysis of Corporate Value of the US Electric Power Utilities from 1988 to 2001
   Mika Goto and Miki Tsutsui
   
3. Incentive Power and Long-Run Benefits
   Larry Kaufmann
   
4. An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to Assessment of the Electricity Distribution Sector in Iran
   Mostafa Kazemi, Alireza Moeini and Mohammad Javad Asgharpour
   

Session 3 B Manufacturing Industries

1. An Analysis of Productivity Levels in the Saudi Non-Oil Manufacturing Industries (Fixed Effects Model)
   Mansour Abdullah Al-miman
   
2. Productivity Growth and Structural Change
   Yilmaz Kilicaslan and Erol Taymaz
   
3. Technical Efficiency of Manufacturing Industries; Sri Lanka’s Experience in the Post-Trade Liberalisation Period
   Yapa Bandara and Neil Karunaratne
   
4. A Fresh Scrutiny of the Productivity Performance in Chinese Manufacturing in 1952-2000
   Harry X. Wu and Xinpeng Xu
   

Session 3 C Econometric Methodology – II

1. A Non-linear SFA Model Measuring Efficiency of IC Companies in Taiwan
   Yung-Lieh Yang, Wann-Jyi Hoorng, Ting-Hua Chang and Chu-Wu Gao
   
2. Comparisons of Economic Inefficiency between Output and Input Measures of Technical Inefficiency Using the Fourier Flexible Cost Function
   Mei-Hui Wang and Tai-Hsin Huang
   
3. Incorporating Environmental Influences in Stochastic Frontier Models: A Comparison of Alternative Models
   Yanrui Wu
   

1. Sensitivity of Technical Efficiency Estimates to Estimation Approaches: An Investigation Using New Zealand Dairy Industry Data
   Mohammad Jaforullah and Erandi Premachandra
   
2. Alternative Technical Efficiency Measures for Argentinean Dairy Farms Using a Stochastic Production Frontier and Unbalanced Panel Data
   Víctor Moreira, Boris Bravo-Ureta, Amilcar Arzubi and Ernesto Schilder
   
3. Re-ranking of Individual Firms Using Alternative Performance Measures: The Case of New Zealand Dairy Farms
   Mark Neal
   
4. Resource Use Efficiency and Its Determinants: A Case Study of Karnataka (India)
   M.J. Bhende
   

Contributed Paper Session 4: Thursday 2.00 – 3.30

Session 4 A Higher Education

1. Quality Adjusted Outputs and Cost Structure in Taiwan’s Universities
   Tsu-Tan Fu, Cliff Huang and Flora Tien
   
2. A Cost Efficiency Analysis for the Group of Traditional Universities in Chile
   Jose Maripani and Boris Bravo-Ureta
   
3. Determining the Relative Efficiency of European Higher Education Institutions using DEA
   Catherine Ris and Othman Joumady
   
4. Measuring the Performance of Australian Universities: Conceptual Issues and Initial Results
   Roger Carrington, Tim Coelli and Prasada Rao
   

Session 4 B Environmental Issues

1. Trade Restrictiveness and Pollution: An Indicator Approach
   Nancy Chau, Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf
   
2. Environmental Performance and Productivity Growth in Industrialised Countries
   Sergio Perelman and Philippe Barla
   
3. The Marginal Productivity of Pollution Abatement and Omitted Variables, Like Climate
   Jonathan Leightner and Tomoo Inoue
   

Session 4 C Productivity Comparisons

1. Metafrontier Functions for the Study of Inter-regional Productivity Differences
   Prasada Rao DS, Christopher O'Donnell and George Battese
   
2. Productivity of Nations: A Stochastic Frontier Approach to TFP Decomposition
   Jorge Pires and Fernando Garcia
   
3. Is a Theory of Total Factor Productivity Really Needed?
   Jesus Felipe and John McCombie
   
4. Estimating Industry-Level Multifactor Productivity in Australia
   Simon Zheng
   

Session 4 D Banking Sector – III

1. An Empirical Investigation of Efficiency and Performance Measures: The Case of United Arab Emirates' Banks
   Bruce Budd and Catherine Budd
   
2. Impact of Regulation Changes on the Productivity of the Banking Sector in the Indian Sub-Continent
   Shabbar Jaffry, Yaseen Ghulam and Sean Pascoe
   
3. Productivity and Efficiency Measurement in Australia Banking Sector - DEA Approach
   Su Wu
   
   

1. On the Estimation of Returns to Scale, Technical Progress and Monopolistic Markups
   Erwin Diewert and Kevin Fox
   
2. The Malmquist Productivity Index and Circularity
   Finn Førsund
   
3. On the Aggregation of Productivity Growth Measures (Withdrawn)
   Franklin Soriano, Prasada Rao and Tim Coelli
   
4. The Many Decompositions of Productivity Change
   Bert Balk
   

Session 5 B Agriculture – III

1. Estimation of a Multi-Input Multi-Output Model of Lot-Fed Beef Cattle in Australia
   Euan Fleming, David Johnston, Pauline Fleming and Garry Griffith
   
2. Measuring the Economic Efficiency of Iranian Maize Producers Under Risk
   Ali Reza Karbasi
   
3. Optimizing Production under Uncertainty: Generalisation of the State-Contingent Approach and Comparison of Methods for Empirical Application
   Svend Rasmussen
   
4. Explaining Agricultural Productivity Levels and Trends: An International Perspective
   Mohammad Alauddin, Prasada Rao and Derek Headey
   

Session 5 C Network Industries – II

1. Telecommunications Productivity Measurement in an Era of Major Technological Change
   Russel Cooper and Gary Madden
   
2. Benchmarking the Efficiency of Philippine Electric Cooperatives Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis
   Rouselle Lavado
   

3. Decomposition of Productivity Change in Japanese Electric Utility Industry Using a Hicks-Moorsteen Index Approach
   Jiro Nemoto and Mika Goto
   
4. An Analysis of Efficiency from the Deregulation of the U.S. Electricity Industry using a Dynamic Approach
   Supawat Rungsuriyawiboon
   

Session 5 D Service Sector Applications

1. Total Factor Productivity Growth at Sectoral Level: The Case of Singapore Hotel Industry
   Nancy Kong and Jose Tongzon
   
2. Performance Measurement in Hotel Service Provision: The Case of International Tourist Hotels in Taiwan
   Shinn Sun
   
3. Measuring the COL Index, Output and Productivity Growth of Service Industries: The Case of the Japanese Retail Industry
   Mitsuru Sunada
   
4. Corporate Performance of Indonesia's Private and Public Sector Firms: Financial and Production Efficiency
   Viverita Rita and Mohamed Ariff
   

1. Paradoxes and Paradigms: Explaining Australia's Productivity Performance in the Information Age
   Harvey Anderssen
   
2. Information, Technology and the Productivity Paradox
   Bronwyn Howell
   
3. ICT and Europe's Productivity Performance, Industry-level Growth Account Comparisons with the United States
   Robert Inklaar, Mary O'Mahony and Marcel Timmer
   
4. The Productivity of Information Technology Trainings: The Case of College Graduates in Taiwan
   Kamhon Kan, Tsu-Tan Fu and Cliff Huang
   

Session 6 B Fisheries

1. Technical Efficiency in Input Controlled Fisheries: A Case Study of the NSW Ocean Prawn Trawl Fishery
   Jared Greenville
   
2. An Analysis of Scope Economies and Specialisation Efficiencies among Thai Shrimp and Rice Smallholders
   Tham Mekhora and Euan Fleming
   
3. Marine Shrimp Production in Captivity: An Analysis of Technical, Allocative and Cost Efficiency
   Josemar Sousa-Júnior, Ahmad Khan, Patrícia Lima and Raúl Madrid
   

Session 6 C Performance Measurement Applications

1. Efficiency of Norwegian Building Entrepeneurs
   Dag Fjeld Edvardsen
   
2. Evaluating Planning the Postal Sector of Iran with the Help of DEA
   Morteza Rassol Rowaisi
   
3. Efficient Governance Structures and Corporate Performance
   Paul Rouse, Jilnaught Wong and Victoria Yeo
   
4. A Study on Productivity Performance of Indian Automobile Industry: Growth accounting Analysis
   Seema Sharma
   

Contributed Paper Session 7: Friday 2.00 – 3.30

1. A Technology Gap Contingent Approach to Outward Orientated Productivity Growth
   Krishna Iyer, Kam Ki Tang, Alicia Rambaldi
   
2. The Impact of Foreign R&D Through Trade on TFP: The Case of East Asian Economies
   Hailin Liao, Mark Holmes, Tom Weyman-Jones
   
3. Cross-Country Comparisons of Sectoral Productivity Performance and the Role of Policy: A Study of OECD Countries
   Dimitri Margaritis, Rolf Fare and Shawna Grosskopf
   
4. The Effects of Openness on Cost and Productivity: A Case Study of Australia
   Satya Paul and Andrew Mark
   

Session 7 B Agriculture – IV

1. A Survey on Efficiency of Wheat Farms in Sistan Area
   Karim Koshteh, A. Akbari and M.A. Mehri
   
2. Efficiency Analysis with Cross-Section and Panel Data
   Ali Reza Karbasi and Mahdi Tahami
   
3. Trends of Rural Poverty and Total Factor Productivity Growth in Pakistan Agriculture: A Time Series Analysis
   Abdul Saboor and Muhammad Siddique Javaid
   
4. Technical Efficiency Analysis of pistachio production in Iran (Khorasan province Case Study)”
   by Karim Koshteh, AR Karbasi and M Ashrafi
   

Session 7 C Econometric Methodology – III

1. The Econometric Approach to Efficiency Analysis
   William Greene
   
2. Interpreting and Testing the Scaling Property in Models where Inefficiency Depends on Firm Characteristics
   Christine Amsler, Antonio Alvarez, Luis Orea and Peter Schmidt
   
3. Nonparametric Stochastic Frontiers, A Bayesian Mixture Approach
   Gholamreza Hajargasht
   
4. Inferences from Models of Economies of Scale: Where Do They Stop?
   Joe Hirschberg and Jenny Lye
   

1. The Joint Determination of Efficiency in Multi-Mode Bus Transit
   Chih-Ku Fan and Ming-Miin Yu
   
2. Measuring the Railway Efficiency, Effectiveness, Productivity and Sales Force with Adjustment of Environmental Effects, Data Noise and Slacks
   Lawrence W. Lan and Erwin T. J. Lin
   
3. Cost Structure and Productivity Growth of Taiwan Railway
   Chun-Hsiung Liao and Shaw-Er Wang
   
4. A Joint Production Efficiency Model of the Water Industry in the United States
   Roberto Mosheim
   

Session 8 B Banking Sector – IV

1. Determining the Optimal Number of Branches for the Agricultural Bank of Iran: A Restricted Cost Function Analysis
   Ozra Javanbakht and Habibolah Salami
   
2. The Efficiency and Productivity of Australian Banks
   Tano Pelosi
   
3. Efficiency in Integrated Banking Markets - Australia and New Zealand
   David Tripe
   

Session 8 C Productivity and Economic Performance

1. A Decomposition of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) Growth; The Case of Sri Lanka’s Manufacturing Industries during the Post-Reforms Period
   Yapa Bandara
   
2. Economic Freedom, Democracy and Economic Performance (Withdrawn)
   Chris Doucouliagos and Mehmet Ulubasoglu
   
3. The Evaluation of China's Western Development Policy - Are Industries Developing According to Their Comparative Advantages and Are They Productively Efficient?
   Yong-sheng Chen
   

NOTES FOR SPEAKERS:

Contributed paper speakers will have 15 minutes to speak (plus 7 minutes question time).

Keynote and Plenary speakers will have 20 minutes to speak (plus 10 minutes question time).

All lecture rooms are located in the Steele Building.

• Keynote and Plenary Sessions will be held in Room 206.
• Contributed paper sessions will be held in the following rooms:
  
  • Session A Room 206
  • Session B Room 309
  • Session C Room 329
  • Session D Room 323

Each lecture room will contain an overhead projector (for standard lecture transparencies) and power point facilities. If you plan to use power point, you should arrive at your session a minimum of 10 minutes before the scheduled start so you have time to load and test your power point slides.

Information on the affiliations and contact details of all conference participants will be provided in the conference satchels.