CEPA Research - Publications

 

Journal Articles

Prasada Rao, D.S., H.E. Doran and E.A. Selvanathan (2003), Estimation of General and Commodity Specific Inflation Rates Using Linear Time-Varying Constraints, Special Issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics in Honour of Henri Theil.

Woodbury,K. B. Dollery and D.S. Prasada Rao (2003), Is local government efficiency measurement in Australia adequate?: An analysis of the evidence, To appear in Public Performance and Management Review.

Prasada Rao, D.S., and M.P. Timmer (2003), "Purchasing Power Parities for Manufacturing Sector Price Comparisons Using New Multilateral Index Number Methods", Review of Income and Wealth, December Issue

Battese, G.E., D.S. Prasada Rao and C.J. O'Donnell, "A Metafrontier Production Function for Estimation of Technical Efficiencies and Technology Gaps for Firms Operating Under Different Technologies", Accepted for publication in the Journal of Productivity Analysis, To appear by November 2003.

Bayarsaihan, T. and T.J. Coelli (2003), "Productivity Growth in pre-1990 Mongolian Agriculture: Spiralling Disaster or Emerging Success?", Agricultural Economics, 28, 121-137.

Hasnah, E. Fleming, and T.J. Coelli (2003), “Assessing the performance of an oil palm production system: A stochastic frontier analysis of a nucleus estate and smallholder scheme in West Sumatra”, Agricultural Systems, to appear.

Battese, G.E. and D.S. Prasada Rao (2002), "Technology Gap, Efficiency and a Stochastic Metafrontier Function", Accepted for Publication in International Journal of Bsiness and Economics , Vol. 1, No. 2, 87-93.

Coelli, T.J., S. Rahman, and C. Thirtle (2002), “Technical, Allocative, Cost and Scale Efficiency In Bangladesh Rice Cultivation: A Non-Parametric Approach”, Journal of Agricultural Economics, 53, 607-626.

Carrington, R., T.J. Coelli and E. Groom (2002), “International benchmarking for monopoly price regulation: The case of Australian gas distribution”, Journal of Regulatory Economics, 21, 191-216.

Nghiem, H.S. and T.J. Coelli (2002), "The Effect of Incentive Reforms upon Productivity: Evidence from the Vietnamese Rice Industry", Journal of Development Studies, 39, 74-93.

Coelli, T.J, E. Grifell-Tatje and S. Perelman (2002), “Capacity Utilisation and Short Run Profit Efficiency”, International Journal of Production Economics, 79, 261-278.

Kotey, B. and C.J. O'Donnell (2002) "Data Envelopment Analysis in Small and Medium Enterprises: A Study of the Australian Food, Beverages and Tobacco Manufacturing Industry" Small Enterprise Research, 10(2), 3-22.

Hutasuhut, M., Chang, H-S., Griffith, G., O'Donnell, C.J. and H. Doran (2002) "The Demand for Beef in Indonesia: Implications for Australian Agribusiness" Agribusiness Review, Vol. 10, Paper 4, pp.1-10.

O'Donnell, C.J. and G. van der Westhuizen (2002) "Regional Comparisons of Banking Performance in South Africa" South African Journal of Economics, 70(3), 485-518.

O'Donnell, C.J., A. Smith and J. Madison (2002) "Using Demographic Risk Factors to Explain Variations in the Incidence of Violence Against Women", Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 17(12): 1239-1262.

Frame, W.S. and Coelli, T.J. (2001), “U.S. Financial Services Consolidation: The Case of Corporate Credit Unions”, The Review of Industrial Organisation, 18, 229-242.

Singh, S., T.J. Coelli and E. Fleming (2001), “Performance of dairy plants in the cooperative and private sectors in India”, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 72, 453-479.

O’Donnell, C.J., A.N. Rambaldi and H.E. Doran (2001) "Estimating Economic Relationships Subject to Firm- and Time-Varying Equality and Inequality Constraints", Journal of Applied Econometrics, 16:709-726.

Chua, C.L, Griffiths, W.E. and C.J. O'Donnell (2001) "Bayesian Model Averaging in Consumer Demand Systems With Inequality Constraints" Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 49(2001): 269-291.

Dwyer, L., Peter Forsyth and D.S. Prasada Rao, (2001), "Destination Price Competitiveness: Exchange Rate changes versus Domestic Inflation ", Journal of Travel Research

Griffiths, W.E., O'Donnell, C.J. and A. Tan Cruz (2000) "Imposing regularity conditions on a system of cost and cost-share equations: a Bayesian approach", Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 44(1):107-127.

Davidson, B., S.A. Khan and D.S. Prasada Rao, (2000), "Child Poverty in Rural Regions of Australia in 1990", Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 6:1, 47-65.

Kasipillai, J., J.C. Baldry and D.s. Prasada Rao (2000), "Estimating the Size and Determinants of Hidden Income and Tax Evasion in Malaysia", Asian Review of Accounting, 8:1, 25-42.

Dwyer, L., Peter Forsyth and D.S. Prasada Rao, (2000) "Price Competitiveness of Package Tourism: Beyond the Big Mac Approach" To appear in Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research

Dwyer, L., Peter Forsyth and D.S. Prasada Rao, (2000), "Sectoral Analysis of Destination Price Competitiveness: An International Comparison", Tourism Analysis, 5. 1-12.

Dwyer, L., Peter Forsyth and D.S. Prasada Rao, (2000) “The price competitiveness of travel and tourism: A comparison of 19 destinations”, Tourism Management, 21, 9-22.

Coelli, T.J. and Perelman, S. (2000), “Technical Efficiency of European Railways: A Distance Function Approach”, Applied Economics, 32, 1967-1976.

Coelli, T.J. (1998), “ A Multi-stage Methodology for the Solution of Orientated DEA Models”, Operations Research Letters, 23, 143-149.

Coelli, T.J. and Perelman, S. (1999), “A Comparison of Parametric and Non-parametric Distance Functions: With Application to European Railways”, European Journal of Operations Research, 117, 326-339.

Coelli, T.J., Perelman, S. and Romano, E. (1999), “Airlines, Environment and Technical Efficiency: An International Comparative Study”, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 11, 251-273.

O'Donnell, C.J., C.R. Shumway and V.E. Ball (1999) "Input demands and inefficiency in U.S. agriculture" American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 81(November 1999), 865-880.

Dwyer, L., Peter Forsyth and D.S. Prasada Rao, (1999), "Tourism Price Competitiveness and Journey Purpose", Tourizam, 47 (4), 283-299.

Chotikapanich, D. and D.S. Prasada Rao (1998) “Inequality in Asia 1975-1990: A Decomposition Analysis”, The Asia Pacific Journal of Economics and Business, 2, 63-78.

Shepherd, W.F., D.S. Prasada Rao and A.Z. Szirmai (1998) “Manufacturing Sector Output and Productivity in Indonesia from an Australian Comparative Perspective”, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies., August, 1998.

Complete lists of publications are available from the web pages of Coelli, O’Donnell and Rao

Book Chapters

O'Donnell, C.J. (2002) "'Parametric Estimation of Technical and Allocative Efficiency in U.S. Agriculture" in Ball, V.E. and G.E. Norton (eds.) Agricultural Productivity: Measurement and Sources of Growth Kluwer, Boston.

Rao, D.S.P., O'Donnell, C.J. and V.E. Ball (2002) "Transitive Multilateral Comparisons of Output, Input and Productivity: A Nonparametric Approach" in Ball, V.E. and G.E. Norton (eds.) Agricultural Productivity: Measurement and Sources of Growth Kluwer, Boston.

Prasada Rao, D.S. and Coelli, T.J. (2002), “Economic Performance of Selected Asian Countries in an International Perspective: Economic Growth, Productivity and Inequality” in Economic Efficiency and Productivity Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region II, C. Huang, C.A.K. Lovell and T.T. Fu (eds), Edward Elgar, Cheletenham.

Coelli, T.J. (2002), “A Comparison of Alternative Productivity Growth Measures: With Application to Electricity Generation”, in Efficiency in the Public Sector, Fox, K. (ed), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.

Prasada Rao, D.S., A. Maddison and B. Lee (2002) "International Comparison of Farm Sector Performance: Methodological Options and empirical findings for Asia-Pacific Economies, 1900-94", in Maddison et al (eds.) The Asian Economies in the Twentieth Century, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 27-52.

Shepherd, W.F. and D.S. Prasada Rao (2002) "A Comparison of Real Output and Productivity Levels in Australia and United States Manufacturing, 1970-95", in Maddison et al (eds.) The Asian Economies in the Twentieth Century, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 53-81.

Coelli, T.J. and S. Perelman (2001), “Multi-output Parametric Frontier Methods”, in La Medicion de la Eficiencia Productiva, A. Alvarez (ed), Editorial Piramide, Madrid (in Spanish).

Shepherd, W.F., B.L. Lee and D.S. Prasada Rao (2001) “Manufacturing Sector Output and Productivity in Korea: An Australian Perspective” in Korean Economic Prospects: Recovery from the Financial Crisis (eds. Shepherd and Kwong), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

Prasada Rao, D.S., W.F. Shepherd and K.C. Sharma (1998) "Cross-Country Comparison of Consumption Expenditure Patterns" in Quantitative Economics: Theory and Practice, edited by S. Chakraborty, D. Coondoo and R. Mukherjee, Allied Publishers, 82-118.

Chotikapanich, D., R. Valenzuela and D.S. Prasada Rao (1998) “Global and Regional Inequality in the Distribution of Income: Estimation with Limited and Incomplete Data”, in Studies in Empirical Economics, edited by Daniel Slottje and Baldev Raj, Physica-Verlag, 65-78.

Books

Maddison, A., W.F. Shepherd and D.S. Prasada Rao (eds.) The Asian Economies In The Twentieth Century, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., London. 2002, p. 250.

Coelli, T.J., Estache, A., Perelman, S. and Trujillo, L. (2002), A Primer on Efficiency Measurement for Utilities and Transport Regulators, World Bank Publications, 129 pp.

Coelli, T.J., Prasada Rao, D.S., and Battese, G.E. (1998), An Introduction to Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 271 pp.

Coelli, T.J. and Griffiths, W.E. (1989), Computer and Exercise Solutions Manual to Accompany : The Theory and Practice of Econometrics, 2nd Edition, Wiley, New York, 447 pp.