3rd Helsinki Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (HeWEPA) mini-workshop in 4 May 2012 at Aalto University School of Economics, Helsinki.
Organizers of the workshop would like to thank all the participants. See the photographs below.
PROGRAM
(The PICTURE link shows a picture of the presenter)
SESSION 1 9:00-10:15 (Session chair: Kristiaan Kerstens)
Opening Remarks by Timo Kuosmanen
Mika Kortelainen (Government Institute for Economic Research): Public and Private Capital Productivity in Russia – A Nonparametric Investigation SLIDES PICTURE
Aziz Karimov (UNU-WIDER): Estimation of Shadow Prices and Economic Inefficiency of Vegetable Farming in Uzbekistan: Directional Input Distance Function Approach PICTURE
BREAK (Coffee and tea) 10:15-10:30
KEYNOTE 1 10:30-12:00 (Session chair: Timo Kuosmanen)
Kristiaan Kerstens (IESEG School of Management, Lille, France): Scale Economies and Returns to Scale in Non-Parametric Models: Exploring the Impact of Convexity SLIDES PICTURE
LUNCH BREAK 12:00-13:00
KEYNOTE 2 13:00-14:30 (Session chair: Timo Sipiläinen)
Andrew L. Johnson (Texas A&M University, USA): Imposing Conservation of Mass in Abatement Function Estimates: NOx Generation in Coal-Fired Power Plants SLIDES PICTURE
BREAK (Coffee and tea) 14:30-14:45
SESSION 2 14:45-16:00 (Session chair: Andrew L. Johnson)
Juha Eskelinen (Aalto University School of Economics): Intertemporal Sales Efficiency Analysis of a Bank Branch Network: A Stochastic Semi-Nonparametric Approach SLIDES PICTURE
Juuso Liesiö (Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis, Aalto University School of Science): Characterizing Portfolios of DMUs with Ratio-based Efficiency Analysis. PICTURE