Program

 

Friday, June 12

 

9:00-9:30

Title: Exact Relationships between Fisher Indexes and Theoretical Indexes

Speaker: C. A. K. Lovell

 

9:30-10:00

Title: On the interpretation of Farrell efficiency measures and the Malmquist productivity index

Speaker: Finn R. Førsund

 

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

 

10:30-10:45

Welcome

 

10:45-11:15

Title: U.S. Farmer Age and Productivity

Speaker: Harold Fried

 

11:15-11:45

Title: Loss Distance Functions and Profit Function: General Duality Results

Speaker: José Luis Zofío

 

11:45-12:15

Title: A Unified DEA Approach for Decomposing Economic Inefficiency

Speaker: Jesús T. Pastor

 

12:15-12:45

Title: Parameterised Genetic Algorithm to resolve NP-hard problems in Data Envelopment Analysis

Speaker:  Domingo Giménez

 

13:00-14:30

Lunch

 

14:30-15:00

Title: Inefficiency patterns amongst different types, and generations, of Bangladeshi Banks.

Speaker: Mette Asmild

 

15:00-15:30

Title: Bankruptcy Prediction of Companies in the Retail-Apparel Industry Using Data Envelopment Analysis    

Speaker: Joseph C. Paradi

 

20:00

Gala Dinner

 

 

Saturday, June 13

 

9:00-9:30

Title: Banking Crises, Early Warning Models, and Efficiency

Speaker: Robin Sickles

 

9:30-10:00

Title: Industry Restructuring: an Analysis of Potential Horizontal Mergers among European Automobile Plants

Speaker: Emili Grifell-Tatjé

 

10:00-10:30

Title: Measuring eco-efficiency using the Stochastic Frontier Analysis approach

Speaker: Luis Orea

 

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

 

11:00-11:30

Title: On the use of DEA models with weight restrictions for benchmarking and target setting

Speaker: Inmaculada Sirvent

 

11:30-12:00

Title: On the stationarity of heterogeneity in production technology

Speaker: Per J. Agrell

 

12:00-12:30

Title: A decomposition of the aggregate energy intensity change of Spanish manufacturing industry

Speaker: Pablo Arocena

 

12:30-13:00

Title: The third way: strategic recombination as a means of improving efficiency.

Speaker: Jaap W.B. Bos

 

13:00-13:15

Closing Session

 

13:15

Lunch

7 June 2015