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C. A. Knox Lovell is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research spans several fields including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Environmental Science.

The subfields in which they focus include Economics and Econometrics, Soil Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Environmental Engineering, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The main topics of their work cover agricultural risk and resilience, climate change impacts on agriculture, environmental impact and sustainability, efficiency analysis using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), climate variability and models, climate change policy and economics, and fiscal policy and economic growth.

Lovell has contributed to publications in a range of scientific venues, including:

  • Ecological Indicators
  • Resources
  • Journal of Econometrics
  • Environmental Development
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their recent papers include:

  • "A new composite climate change vulnerability index," 2020, Ecological Indicators
  • "The Inequities of National Adaptation to Climate Change," 2022, Resources
  • "On the origins of Aigner, Lovell and Schmidt, 1977, and the development of stochastic frontier analysis," 2023, Journal of Econometrics
  • "Measuring climate risks: A new multidimensional index for global vulnerability and resilience," 2025, Environmental Development
  • "Measuring Climate Risks: A New Multidimensional Index for Global Vulnerability and Resilience," 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Heidi Edmonds
  • Julie Lovell
  • Jesús T. Pastor
  • Dennis J. Aigner
  • Peter Schmidt

Best Publications

  • Formulation and estimation of stochastic frontier production function models

    Dennis Aigner;Dennis Aigner;C.A.Knox Lovell;Peter Schmidt

  • Stochastic Frontier Analysis

    Subal C. Kumbhakar;C. A. Knox Lovell

  • ON THE ESTIMATION OF TECHNICAL INEFFICIENCY IN THE STOCHASTIC FRONTIER PRODUCTION FUNCTION MODEL

    Peter Schmidt;James Jondrow

  • The measurement of efficiency of production

    Rolf Färe;Shawna Grosskopf;C. A. Knox Lovell

  • Multilateral Productivity Comparisons When Some Outputs are Undesirable: A Nonparametric Approach

    Rolf Faere;Shawna Grosskopf;C. A. K. Lovell;Carl Pasurka

  • Measuring cost efficiency in banking: Econometric and linear programming evidence

    Gary D. Ferrier;C.A.Knox Lovell

  • Measuring the technical efficiency of production

    Rolf Färe;C.A Knox Lovell

  • A survey of frontier production functions and of their relationship to efficiency measurement

    Finn R. Førsund;C.A.Knox Lovell;Peter Schmidt

  • The measurement of productive efficiency : techniques and applications

    Harold O. Fried;C. A. Knox Lovell;Shelton S. Schmidt

  • The measurement of productive efficiency and productivity growth

    Harold O. Fried;C. A. Knox Lovell;Shelton S. Schmidt

  • Stochastic Frontier Analysis

    Subal Kumbhakar;C. Lovell

  • Derivation of shadow prices for undesirable outputs: A distance function approach

    Rolf Fare;Shawna Grosskopf

  • Estimating technical and allocative inefficiency relative to stochastic production and cost frontiers

    Peter Schmidt;C.A. Knox Lovell

  • A global Malmquist productivity index

    Jesús T. Pastor;C.A. Knox Lovell

  • Environmental efficiency with multiple environmentally detrimental variables : estimated with SFA and DEA

    Stijn Reinhard;C.A. Knox Lovell;Geert J. Thijssen

  • Accounting for Environmental Effects and Statistical Noise in Data Envelopment Analysis

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  • The impact of liberalization on the productive efficiency of Indian commercial banks

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  • Econometric Estimation of Technical and Environmental Efficiency: An Application to Dutch Dairy Farms

    Stijn Reinhard;C.A. Knox Lovell;Geert Thijssen

  • Measuring macroeconomic performance in the OECD: A comparison of European and non-European countries

    C.A. Knox Lovell;Jesús T. Pastor;Judi A. Turner

  • Chance‐constrained data envelopment analysis

    Kenneth C. Land;C. A. Knox Lovell;Sten Thore

  • Units invariant and translation invariant DEA models

    C. A. Knox Lovell;Jesús T. Pastor

  • A note on the Malmquist productivity index

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  • Efficiency and productivity

    Harold O. Fried;C. A. Knox Lovell;Shelton S. Schmidt

  • RESOURCES AND FUNCTIONINGS: A NEW VIEW OF INEQUALITY IN AUSTRALIA

    C. A. Knox Lovell;Peter Travers;Sue Richardson;Lisa Wood

  • The Impact of Financial Liberalization on the Performance of Thai Banks

    Jonathan E Leightner;C.A.Knox Lovell

  • The decomposition of malmquist productivity indexes

    C. A. Knox Lovell

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf Färe
Rolf Färe Oregon State University
Shawna Grosskopf
Shawna Grosskopf Oregon State University
Subal C. Kumbhakar
Subal C. Kumbhakar Binghamton University
Robin C. Sickles
Robin C. Sickles Rice University
Henry Tulkens
Henry Tulkens Université Catholique de Louvain
David K. Guilkey
David K. Guilkey University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kenneth C. Land
Kenneth C. Land Duke University
John C. Beghin
John C. Beghin University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Jacques H. Dreze
Jacques H. Dreze Université Catholique de Louvain

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