2026 Finn R. Førsund: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	36	2745	2489	20	19	168	8819

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D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

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Economics and Finance

2745

2489

168

8819

Overview

Finn R. Førsund is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and specializes in Decision Sciences, with a focus on Management Science and Operations Research, Environmental Engineering, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Control and Systems Engineering, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their research encompasses a range of topics including:

Efficiency Analysis Using DEA
Environmental Impact and Sustainability
Scientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation
Optimization and Mathematical Programming
Economic Growth and Productivity

Among their recent publications are:

Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs, 2021, Journal of Productivity Analysis
Rejoinders to the comments on my paper "Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs", 2021, Journal of Productivity Analysis
Comparison of Different Methods for Estimation of Returns to Scale in Nonradial Data Envelopment Analysis Models, 2022, Automation and Remote Control
Multidimensional Visualization of Data Envelopment Analysis Models, 2021, Data Envelopment Analysis Journal

This publication record includes work in key venues such as:

Journal of Productivity Analysis
Automation and Remote Control
Data Envelopment Analysis Journal

Frequent collaboration partners include:

V. E. Krivonozhko
Alexander Afanasiev
Andrey V. Lychev

Best Publications

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

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

1628
Citations
Malmquist Indices of Productivity Growth during the Deregulation of Norwegian Banking, 1980-89

Finn R. Forsund;Eilev S. Jansen

887
Citations
Banking efficiency in the Nordic countries

Sigbjørn Atle Berg;Finn R. Førsund;Lennart Hjalmarsson;Matti Suominen

651
Citations
Slack-adjusted efficiency measures and ranking of efficient units

Arne Martin Torgersen;Finn R. Førsund;Sverre A. C. Kittelsen

394
Citations
On the Origins of Data Envelopment Analysis

Finn R. Førsund;Nikias Sarafoglou

357
Citations
Generalised Farrell Measures of Efficiency: An Application to Milk Processing in Swedish Dairy Plants

Finn R. Førsund;Lennart Hjalmarsson

347
Citations
Good modelling of bad outputs: Pollution and multiple-output production

Finn R. Førsund

282
Citations
Productivity development of Norwegian electricity distribution utilities

Finn R Førsund;Sverre A.C Kittelsen

259
Citations
Technical efficiency of Norwegian banks: The non-parametric approach to efficiency measurement

Sigbjørn Atle Berg;Finn R. Førsund;Eilev S. Jansen

257
Citations
Deterministic parametric and nonparametric estimation of efficiency in service production: A comparison

Hans Bjurek;Lennart Hjalmarsson;Finn R. Forsund

244
Citations
On the Measurement of Productive Efficiency

Finn R. Førsund;Lennart Hjalmarsson

227
Citations
Efficiency analysis of Norwegian district courts

Sverre A. C. Kittelsen;Finn R. Førsund

222
Citations
On the calculation of the scale elasticity in DEA models

Finn R. Førsund

168
Citations
Generalized Farrell Measures of Efficiency: An Application to Milk Processing in Swedish Dairy Plants

Finn R. Førsund;Lennart Hjalmarsson

159
Citations
International benchmarking of electricity distribution utilities

Dag Fjeld Edvardsen;Finn R. Førsund

156
Citations
Calculating scale elasticity in DEA models

Finn R. Førsund;Lennart Hjalmarsson

127
Citations
Frontier Production Functions and Technical Progress: A Study of General Milk Processing in Swedish Dairy Plants

Finn R. Forsund;Lennart Hjalmarsson

106
Citations
On Estimating Average and Best Practice Homothetic Production Functions via Cost Functions

Finn R. Forsund;Eilev S. Jansen

103
Citations
Calculation of scale elasticities in DEA models: direct and indirect approaches

Finn R. Førsund;Lennart Hjalmarsson;Vladimir E. Krivonozhko;Oleg B. Utkin

95
Citations
Analyses of industrial structure : a putty-clay approach

Finn R. Førsund;Lennart Hjalmarsson

93
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Hoel University of Oslo

Almas Heshmati Jönköping University

Rolf Färe Oregon State University

Shawna Grosskopf Oregon State University

Markus Amann International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Rajiv D. Banker Temple University

C. A. Knox Lovell University of Queensland

Subal C. Kumbhakar Binghamton University

External Links

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