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Overview

Subal C. Kumbhakar is affiliated with Binghamton University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on economics, econometrics, and finance, with a significant contribution to the subfields of economics and econometrics, management science and operations research, general economics, strategy and management, and general agricultural and biological sciences.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Efficiency Analysis Using DEA
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Global Trade and Economics
  • Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth

Kumbhakar has published extensively in venues such as:

  • European Journal of Operational Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Empirical Economics
  • Journal of Productivity Analysis
  • Economics Letters

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Kumbhakar are:

  • "Do subsidies increase firm productivity? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises," European Journal of Operational Research, 2022
  • "Achieving a sustainable cost-efficient business model in banking: The case of European commercial banks," European Journal of Operational Research, 2020
  • "Determinants of allocative and technical inefficiency in stochastic frontier models: An analysis of Norwegian electricity distribution firms," European Journal of Operational Research, 2020
  • "Do carbon taxes affect economic and environmental efficiency? The case of British Columbia's manufacturing plants," Energy Economics, 2022
  • "Estimation of firm-level productivity in the presence of exports: Evidence from China's manufacturing," Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020

Kumbhakar has also contributed to book publications, including "International Benchmarking for Country Economic Diagnostics: A Stochastic Frontier Approach," published by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks in 2020.

Frequent coauthors include Shunan Zhao, Gudbrand Lien, Fikru K. Alemayehu, Efthymios G. Tsionas, and Mingyang Li.

Best Publications

  • Stochastic Frontier Analysis

    Subal C. Kumbhakar;C. A. Knox Lovell

  • A Generalized Production Frontier Approach for Estimating Determinants of Inefficiency in U.S. Dairy Farms

    Subal C. Kumbhakar;Soumendra Ghosh;J. Thomas McGuckin

  • Production frontiers, panel data, and time-varying technical inefficiency

    Subal C. Kumbhakar

  • Stochastic Frontier Analysis

    Subal Kumbhakar;C. Lovell

  • A Practitioner's Guide to Stochastic Frontier Analysis Using Stata

    Subal C. Kumbhakar;Hung-Jen Wang;Alan P. Horncastle

  • Technical efficiency in competing panel data models: a study of Norwegian grain farming

    Subal C. Kumbhakar;Subal C. Kumbhakar;Subal C. Kumbhakar;Gudbrand D. Lien;Gudbrand D. Lien;J. Brian Hardaker

  • DEA, DFA and SFA: A Comparison

    Lennart Hjalmarsson;Subal C. Kumbhakar;Almas Heshmati

  • Efficiency measurement using a latent class stochastic frontier model

    Luis Orea;Subal C. Kumbhakar

  • Estimation and decomposition of productivity change when production is not efficient: a paneldata approach

    Subal C. Kumbhakar;M. Denny;M. Fuss

  • Nonparametric stochastic frontiers: a local maximum likelihood approach

    Subal C. Kumbhakar;Byeong U. Park;Léopold Simar;Efthymios G. Tsionas

  • Deregulation, Ownership, and Productivity Growth in the Banking Industry: Evidence from India

    Subal C. Kumbhakar;Subrata Sarkar

  • The specification of technical and allocative inefficiency in stochastic production and profit frontiers

    Subal C. Kumbhakar

  • Specification and Estimation of Production Risk, Risk Preferences and Technical Efficiency

    Subal C. Kumbhakar

  • Closed-skew normality in stochastic frontiers with individual effects and long/short-run efficiency

    Roberto Colombi;Subal C. Kumbhakar;Gianmaria Martini;Giorgio Vittadini

  • The Effects of Deregulation on the Performance of Financial Institutions: The Case of Spanish Savings Banks

    Subal C. Kumbhakar;Ana Lozano-Vivas;C. A. Knox Lovell;Iftekhar Hasan

  • Efficiency Measurement in Swedish Dairy Farms: An Application of Rotating Panel Data, 1976–88

    Subal C. Kumbhakar;Almas Heshmati

  • Joint estimation of technology choice and technical efficiency : an application to organic and conventional dairy farming

    Subal C. Kumbhakar;Efthymios G. Tsionas;Timo Sipiläinen

  • Estimation of growth convergence using a stochastic production frontier approach

    Subal C. Kumbhakar;Hung-Jen Wang

  • Modeling allocative inefficiency in a translog cost function and cost share equations: An exact relationship

    Subal C. Kumbhakar

  • FIRM HETEROGENEITY, PERSISTENT AND TRANSIENT TECHNICAL INEFFICIENCY: A GENERALIZED TRUE RANDOM-EFFECTS model

    Efthymios G. Tsionas;Subal C. Kumbhakar;Subal C. Kumbhakar

  • The Effects of Deregulation on the Performance of Financial Institutions: The Case of Spanish Savings Banks

    Subal C. Kumbhakar;Ana Lozano-Vivas;C.A. Knox Lovell

Frequent Co-Authors

Gudbrand Lien
Gudbrand Lien Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Almas Heshmati
Almas Heshmati Jönköping University
C. A. Knox Lovell
C. A. Knox Lovell University of Queensland
Ragnar Tveterås
Ragnar Tveterås University of Stavanger
Subhash C. Ray
Subhash C. Ray University of Connecticut
William W. Cooper
William W. Cooper The University of Texas at Austin
Frank Asche
Frank Asche University of Florida
Marco Vivarelli
Marco Vivarelli Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Patrick L. Brockett
Patrick L. Brockett The University of Texas at Austin
Timo Kuosmanen
Timo Kuosmanen Aalto University

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