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C.A. Knox Lovell is Honorary Professor with the Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland. He has traveled widely, has held visiting positions at universities on three continents, and holds honorary doctorate degrees from two European universities. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Productivity Analysis for a decade. He has authored several books, including Production Frontiers (with Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (with Subal Kumbhakar) for Cambridge University Press. |
Professors E. Grifell-Tatjé and C.A.K. Lovell have been collaborating for a long period of time. Previous research from the authors includes:
| (2015), “Exact Relationship between Fisher Indexes and Theoretical Indexes,” Center for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (CEPA). University of Queensland. Working Paper nº WP06/2015, May (ISSN No. 1932 – 4398). (C.A.K. Lovell). http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/cepa/docs/WP/WP062015.pdf |
| (2015), “Decompositions of Profitability Change Using Cost Functions: A Comment,” Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (CEPA). University of Queensland. Working Paper nº WP03/2015, March. [Accessible a http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/cepa/docs/WP/WP032015.pdf] |
| (2014), “Productivity, Price Recovery, Capacity Constraints and their Financial Consequences,” Journal of Productivity Analysis 41(1), 3-17. (Lead article). [DOI 10.1007/s11123-013-0373-8] |
| (2013), “Advances in Cost Frontier Analysis of the Firm,” Chapter 4 in C.R. Thomas and W. Shughart II (ed.), Oxford Handbook in Managerial Economics. Oxford University Press: New York. p 66 – 88. [Accessible a través http://cataleg.uab.cat/record=b1898141~S1*cat] |
| (2011), “Testing the Product Test,” Economics Letters 113(2), November, 157-159. (with H. Brea Solís).[Versió postprint d'aquest article a http://ddd.uab.cat/record/131757 ] |
| (2008), “Productivity at the Post: its Drivers and its Distribution,” Journal of Regulatory Economics 33(2), April, 133 – 158. (Lead article) [Versió postprint de l'aquest article a http://ddd.uab.cat/record/131749] |
| (2007), “Profit, Productivity and Distribution: Differences Across Organizational Form,” Documentos de Trabajo 27. Fundación BBVA. 79 pages. [Accessible a través http://www.fbbva.es/TLFU/tlfu/ing/publicaciones/documentos/fichadoc/index.jsp?codigo=262] |
| (2004), “Decomposing the Dividend,” Journal of Comparative Economics 32(3), 500 - 518. [Versió postprint d'aquest article a http://ddd.uab.cat/record/131746] |
| (2004), “Farrell’s Technical Efficiency Measurement,” in J. Segura and C. Rodriguez Braun (ed.), An Eponymous Dictionary of Economics: A Guide to Laws and Theorems Named after Economists. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [Accessible a través http://cataleg.uab.cat/record=b1628705~S1*cat] |
| (2003), “The Managers vs. the Consultants,” The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 105(1), 119 – 138 [Versió postprint d'aquest article a http://ddd.uab.cat/record/131747]. |
| (2000), “Cost and Productivity,” Managerial and Decision Economics 21(1), 19 – 30. [Versió postprint a http://ddd.uab.cat/record/131744] |
| (1999), "Profits and Productivity,” Management Science 45(9), September, 1177 – 1193. (Lead article) [Versió postprint d'aquest article a http://ddd.uab.cat/record/131753] |
| (1999), “A Generalized Malmquist Productivity Index,” TOP. Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa 7(1), 81 – 101. [Accessible a través http://cataleg.uab.cat/record=b1636545~S1*cat] |
| (1998), “The Quasi-Malmquist Index,” Journal of Productivity Analysis 10(1), July, 7-20 (with J. T. Pastor). (Lead article) [Versió postprint d'aquest article a https://ddd.uab.cat/record/131754] |
| (1997), “Biased Technical Change and the Malmquist Productivity Index,” The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 99(1), 119-127 (with R. Färe and S. Grosskopf). [DOI 10.1111/1467-9442.00051] |
| (1997), “The Sources of Productivity Change in Spanish Banking,” European Journal of Operational Research 98(2), April, 364 - 380. [DOI 10.1016/S0377-2217(96)00353-0] |
| (1997), "A DEA-Based Analysis of Productivity Change and Intertemporal Managerial Performance," Annals of Operations Research 73 (Special Issue in Honor of Abraham Charnes), 177 – 189. [Accessible a través http://cataleg.uab.cat/record=b1525942~S1*cat] |
| (1996), "Deregulation and Productivity Decline: the Case of Spanish Savings Banks," European Economic Review 40(6), June, 1281 – 1303. [DOI 10.1016/0014-2921(95)00024-0] [2001, reprinted in M.J.B. Hall (Editor) en The Regulation and Supervision of Banks: Volume IV Regulation and Efficiency in Banking. International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing]. |
| (1995), "A Note on the Malmquist Productivity Index," Economics Letters 47(2), 169-175. [DOI /10.1016/0165-1765(94)00497-P] |
| (1995), "Estrategias de Gestión y Cambio Productivo en el Sector Bancario Español,” Papeles de Economía Española 65, 174 – 185. [Accessible a travès http://cataleg.uab.cat/record=b1006482~S1*cat] |
| (1994), "Economías de Escala y Cambios en la Productividad: El Caso de las Cajas de Ahorro Españolas," Perspectivas del Sistema Financiero 48, 123-131. [Accessible a través de http://cataleg.uab.cat/record=b1224465~S1*cat] |
Work in progress
- The authors are editing (with Professor Robin Sickles, Rice University US), The Oxford Handbook of Productivity Analysis, Oxford University Press. The Handbook contains twenty six chapters grouped in four parts, with thirty seven contributors from twenty four different institutions around the word, who contribute to broadening the perspective on the concept of productivity.
- We are exploring the relationships between empirical index numbers (e.g., Fisher) and corresponding implicit theoretical (e.g., Konüs and Malmquist) index numbers.
- Together with Pau Turon Dols (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), we are conducting research into the concept of economic progress that was introduced nearly a century ago and modern analytical models of firm behavior.
What we share
We share the passion for the jazz music. In fact, Knox Lovell has been a collector of jazz music for a very long time. Knox broadcasts, every Sunday, a radio Jazz Show in the radio station "4zzz Brisbane" from 9:00 am to 12:00 am.
You can listen to him at http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/program/the-jazz-show
When we are working together in Brisbane (Australia), we occasionally share the jazz show on Sunday morning. We love the music of the Barcelonian jazz pianist Tete Montoliu (1933 -1997), and classics such as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Shirley Horn among many others, including Joe Lovano and the jazz singers from Brisbane Ingrid James and Katie Noonan.
What we do not share
We do not share the passion for gardening. It is difficult to move Knox to the countryside. Emili lives on the outskirts of Barcelona, in the countryside, and his family has a vegetable garden. His family plants a broad range of vegetables, free of pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
The photo shows some of the vegetables from the garden: tomatoes, zucchini, eggplants, green beans and different kinds of lettuces.
We do not share the love of pub life. It is equally difficult to move Emili from his garden to Knox’s pub. The photo shows Knox in his favorite pub, La Bitacora, in the Barcelona community of Barceloneta, with some friends celebrating the Christmas holidays.
