Advances in Efficiency and Productivity

Juan Aparicio  is a Lecturer in the Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science at the Operations Research Center of University Miguel Hernandez, Alicante, Spain.  He earned his Ph.D. in Statistics in 2007 at the UMH.  He is Co-Chair (with Lovell Knox) of the Santander Chair on Efficiency and Productivity.  His research interests include Efficiency and Productivity Analysis and Game Theory.

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 served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Productivity Analysis for a decade. He has authored several books, including Production Frontiers (with Färe and Grosskopf) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (with Kumbhakhar) for Cambridge University Press.

Jesus T. Pastor is a Professor in the Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Informatics at the Operations Research Center of University Miguel Hernandez, Alicante, Spain.  He earned his Bachelor’s, Master, and Ph.D., all in Mathematics, at the University of Valencia, and was awarded as one of the three most relevant Spanish Scientists of 2013 by the Scientific Spanish Association.  His research interests are in Productivity and Efficiency, Statistics, and Informatics.