1. Parametric Decomposition of a Generalized Malmquist Productivity Index

   • Luis Orea

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 22

2. Separating Technical Change from Time-Varying Technical Inefficiency in the Absence of Distributional Assumptions

   • G. Karagiannis
   • P. Midmore
   • V. Tzouvelekas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 38

3. Heterogeneity in Returns to Scale: A Random Coefficient Analysis with Unbalanced Panel Data

   • Erik Biørn
   • Kjersti-Gro Lindquist
   • Terje Skjerpen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 57

4. An Efficiency Comparison of European Banking Systems Operating under Different Environmental Conditions

   • Ana Lozano-Vivas
   • Jesús T. Pastor
   • José M. Pastor

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 77

5. How Fast Do Banks Adjust? A Dynamic Model of Labor-Use with an Application to Swedish Banks

   • Subal C. Kumbhakar
   • Almas Heshmati
   • Lennart Hjalmarsson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 102