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Rolf Färe is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with significant contributions to Decision Sciences. The main subfields of study covered by their work include Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Environmental Engineering, Finance, and Media Technology.

Their research encompasses a range of topics with a particular emphasis on efficiency and productivity analysis, environmental and economic valuation, and the dynamics of economic growth. Key research topics include:

  • Efficiency Analysis Using DEA
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Economic theories and models
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability

Rolf Färe's recent papers demonstrate ongoing work in these areas. Selected publications include:

  • On aggregation of multi-factor productivity indexes, 2021, Journal of Productivity Analysis
  • Hicks neutrality and homotheticity in technologies with multiple inputs and multiple outputs, 2020, Omega
  • Sequential data envelopment analysis, 2021, Annals of Operations Research
  • Profit efficiency: Generalization, business accounting and the role of convexity, 2020, Economics Letters
  • Reconstructing Nonparametric Productivity Networks, 2020, Entropy

The researcher has published extensively in a number of academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Productivity Analysis
  • Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
  • International Journal of Banking Accounting and Finance
  • World Scientific-Now Publishers series in business
  • Journal of Environmental Management

In addition to journal articles, Rolf Färe has contributed to academic books, including a work published by World Scientific titled "Market Power, Economic Efficiency, and the Lerner Index" in 2023.

Collaboration has involved several frequent co-authors, reflecting multidisciplinary partnerships. Notable co-authors include:

  • Shawna Grosskopf
  • Dimitris Margaritis
  • Giannis Karagiannis
  • Valentin Zelenyuk
  • Moriah Bostian

Best Publications

  • Productivity Growth, Technical Progress, and Efficiency Change in Industrialized Countries

    Rolf Fare;Shawna Grosskopf;Mary Norris;Zhongyang Zhang

  • Productivity and Undesirable Outputs: A Directional Distance Function Approach

    Y.H. Chung;R. Färe;S. Grosskopf

  • The measurement of efficiency of production

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

  • Multi-Output Production and Duality: Theory and Applications

    Rolf Färe;Daniel Primont

  • Benefit and Distance Functions

    Robert G. Chambers;Yangho Chung;Rolf Färe

  • Measuring the technical efficiency of production

    Rolf Färe;C.A Knox Lovell

  • Productivity Changes in Swedish Pharamacies 1980-1989: A Non-Parametric Malmquist Approach

    R. Färe;S. Grosskopf;B. Lindgren;P. Roos

  • Profit, directional distance functions, and Nerlovian efficiency

    R. G. Chambers;Y. Chung;R. Färe

  • Productivity Developments in Swedish Hospitals: A Malmquist Output Index Approach

    Rolf Färe;Shawna Grosskopf;Björn Lindgren;Pontus Roos

  • Characteristics of a polluting technology: theory and practice

    Rolf Färe;Shawna Grosskopf;Dong-Woon Noh;William Weber

  • Environmental production functions and environmental directional distance functions

    Rolf Färe;Shawna Grosskopf;Carl A. Pasurka

  • Intertemporal Production Frontiers: With Dynamic DEA

    Rolf Färe;Shawna Grosskopf

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

    Rolf Fare;Shawna Grosskopf

  • Network DEA

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  • Modeling undesirable factors in efficiency evaluation: Comment

    Rolf Färe;Shawna Grosskopf

  • PRODUCTIVITY AND INTERMEDIATE PRODUCTS: A FRONTIER APPROACH

    Rolf Färe;Shawna Grosskopf

  • New directions : efficiency and productivity

    Rolf Färe;Shawna Grosskopf;H. Fukuyama

  • Theory and Application of Directional Distance Functions

    Rolf Färe;Shawna Grosskopf

  • Accounting for Air Pollution Emissions in Measures of State Manufacturing Productivity Growth

    Rolf Färe;Shawna Grosskopf;Carl A Pasurka

  • A Nonparametric Cost Approach to Scale Efficiency

    Rolf Färe;Shawna Grosskopf

  • Environmental Performance : an Index Number Approach

    R. Färe;S. Grosskopf;F. Hernandez-Sancho

  • An activity analysis model of the environmental performance of firms—application to fossil-fuel-fired electric utilities

    Rolf Färe;Shawna Grosskopf;Daniel Tyteca

Frequent Co-Authors

Shawna Grosskopf
Shawna Grosskopf Oregon State University
C. A. Knox Lovell
C. A. Knox Lovell University of Queensland
Robert Chambers
Robert Chambers University of Maryland, College Park
William L. Weber
William L. Weber Southeast Missouri State University
Almas Heshmati
Almas Heshmati Jönköping University
Dale Squires
Dale Squires University of California, San Diego
Emili Tortosa-Ausina
Emili Tortosa-Ausina Jaume I University
Finn R. Førsund
Finn R. Førsund University of Oslo
Bengt Jonsson
Bengt Jonsson Uppsala University
Giancarlo Ruocco
Giancarlo Ruocco Italian Institute of Technology

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