This paper uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the performance of English
Premier League football clubs from 1998/99 to 2002/03 combining sport and financial …

In two widely cited but unpublished working papers, Simar and Wilson and Zofío and Lovell
proposed an alternative decomposition of the Malmquist Productivity Index, which retained …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the Italian total factor productivity (TFP) growth
for the 1995-2012 period that takes into account the factors explaining cross-regional …

Purpose–The purpose of this research paper is to prove the superiority of a two‐stage data
envelopment analysis compared to a one‐stage approach in measuring a football club's …

Do dynamic externalities, in the form of technology creation, adoption and spatial
agglomeration shape the pattern of regional growth in Europe? This study provides an …

This paper proposes a fixed-effect panel methodology that enables us to simultaneously
take into account both TFP convergence and the traditional neoclassical-type of …

Labour productivity growth in manufacturing is decomposed into technical efficiency change
(movement towards or away from the frontier), technological progress (shifts in the …

In the years of the prolonged post-crisis recession, the well-known North-South divide in Italy
has significantly worsened. Several structural weaknesses limit both post-crisis recovery and …

The main objective of this paper is to clarify the controversial role of energy in productivity
growth. This is done by reconciling conventional approaches to the measurement of …

The total amount of carbon emissions is limited by a fixed-sum constraint in the context of
China's dual carbon target, a factor ignored in previous studies on carbon productivity. To …