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Kristiaan Kerstens

Kristiaan Kerstens

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
36
Citations
5924
World Ranking
2798
National Ranking
70

Overview

Kristiaan Kerstens is affiliated with IESEG School of Management in France and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Decision Sciences. Their research emphasizes topics such as Efficiency Analysis Using DEA, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Economic Growth and Productivity, and Capital Investment and Risk Analysis.

The scientist has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • European Journal of Operational Research
  • Annals of Operations Research
  • Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
  • RAIRO. Operations research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Among recent papers authored by Kristiaan Kerstens are:

  • Cost functions are nonconvex in the outputs when the technology is nonconvex: convexification is not harmless, 2021, Annals of Operations Research
  • Using COVID-19 mortality to select among hospital plant capacity models: An exploratory empirical application to Hubei province, 2021, Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • Malmquist productivity indices and plant capacity utilisation: new proposals and empirical application, 2022, Annals of Operations Research

Other noteworthy papers, although not authored by Kerstens directly but part of the dataset, include works on energy productivity, efficiency measures, and environmental productivity issues, highlighting interdisciplinary connections relevant to their research fields.

Frequent co-authors of Kerstens include:

  • Ignace Van de Woestyne
  • Jafar Sadeghi
  • Zhiyang Shen
  • Xiaohong Chen
  • Stefano Nasini

In addition to journal publications, Kristiaan Kerstens has contributed to book literature with a recent publication titled Analytical Decision Making and Data Envelopment Analysis, published by Springer International Publishing in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Cost efficiency of Belgian local governments: A comparative analysis of FDH, DEA, and econometric approaches

    Bruno De Borger;Kristiaan Kerstens

  • Public transit performance: What does one learn from frontier studies?

    Bruno De Borger;Kristiaan Kerstens;Aâ Lvaro Costa

  • Explaining differences in productive efficiency: An application to Belgian municipalities

    B. De Borger;K. Kerstens;Wim Moesen;Wim Moesen;J. Vanneste

  • Technical efficiency measurement and explanation of French urban transit companies

    K. Kerstens

  • Mean-Variance-Skewness Portfolio Performance Gauging: A General Shortage Function and Dual Approach

    Walter Briec;Kristiaan Kerstens;Octave Jokung

  • Luenberger and Malmquist Productivity Indices: Theoretical Comparisons and Empirical Illustration

    Jean-Philippe Boussemart;Walter Briec;Kristiaan Kerstens;Jean-Christophe Poutineau

  • Short- and Long-Run Credit Constraints in French Agriculture: A Directional Distance Function Framework Using Expenditure-Constrained Profit Functions

    Stéphane Blancard;Jean-Philippe Boussemart;Walter Briec;Kristiaan Kerstens

  • Estimating returns to scale using non-parametric deterministic technologies: A new method based on goodness-of-fit

    Kristiaan Kerstens;Philippe Vanden Eeckaut

  • Radial and nonradial measures of technical efficiency: An empirical illustration for Belgian local governments using an FDH reference technology

    Bruno De Borger;Kristiaan Kerstens

  • Non-convex Technologies and Cost Functions: Definitions, Duality and Nonparametric Tests of Convexity

    W Briec;K Kerstens;P Vanden Eeckaut

  • Single-Period Markowitz Portfolio Selection, Performance Gauging, and Duality: A Variation on the Luenberger Shortage Function

    W. Briec;K. Kerstens;J. B. Lesourd

  • A Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator: its relation to the Hicks-Moorsteen productivity index and the Luenberger productivity indicator

    Walter Briec;Kristiaan Kerstens

  • Comparing Malmquist and Hicks–Moorsteen productivity indices: Exploring the impact of unbalanced vs. balanced panel data ☆

    Kristiaan Kerstens;Ignace Van de Woestyne

  • Infeasibility and Directional Distance Functions with Application to the Determinateness of the Luenberger Productivity Indicator

    Walter Briec;Kristiaan Kerstens

  • Multi-horizon Markowitz portfolio performance appraisals: A general approach

    Walter Briec;Kristiaan Kerstens

  • What is known about municipal efficiency: the Belgian case and beyond

    Bruno De Borger;Kristiaan Kerstens

  • Negative Data in DEA: A Simple Proportional Distance Function Approach

    K Kerstens;I Van de Woestyne

  • The choice of a technical efficiency measure on the free disposal hull reference technology: A comparison using US banking data

    Bruno De Borger;Gary D. Ferrier;Kristiaan Kerstens

  • The Performance of Bus Transit Operators

    Bruno De Borger;Kristiaan Kerstens

  • Bank Productivity and Performance Groups: A Decomposition Approach Based upon the Luenberger Productivity Indicator

    M. Epure;Kristiaan Kerstens;Diego Prior

  • Bank productivity and performance groups: A decomposition approach based upon the Luenberger productivity indicator ☆

    Mircea Epure;Kristiaan Kerstens;Diego Prior;Diego Prior

  • Metatechnology frontier and convexity: A restatement

    Kristiaan Kerstens;Christopher O’donnell;Ignace van de Woestyne

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno De Borger
Bruno De Borger University of Antwerp
Dale Squires
Dale Squires University of California, San Diego
Cinzia Daraio
Cinzia Daraio Sapienza University of Rome
Spiro E. Stefanou
Spiro E. Stefanou United States Department of Agriculture
Robin C. Sickles
Robin C. Sickles Rice University
Kaoru Tone
Kaoru Tone National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Shunsuke Managi
Shunsuke Managi Kyushu University
Rolf Färe
Rolf Färe Oregon State University
Shawna Grosskopf
Shawna Grosskopf Oregon State University

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