Publications and communications of Barnabé Walheer

Gautier, A., Nsabimana, R., & Walheer, B. (June 2023). Quality performance gaps and minimal electricity losses in East Africa. Utilities Policy, 82, 101558. doi:10.1016/j.jup.2023.101558

Walheer, B. (2023). One world several technologies ? A nonparametric test of club technology convergence. Applied Economics Letters, 1-9. doi:10.1080/13504851.2023.2178621

Walheer, B. (2023). Meta-frontier and technology switchers: A nonparametric approach. European Journal of Operational Research. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2022.05.038

Walheer, B. (September 2022). Cross-efficiency for advanced manufacturing technology selection: A multi-task approach. RAIRO. Operations Research, 56 (5), 3471 - 3490. doi:10.1051/ro/2022158

Gautier, A., Nsabimana, R., & Walheer, B. (2022). Quality performance gaps and minimal electricity losses in East Africa. Eprint/Working paper retrieved from https://orbi.uliege.be/2268/261348.

Liu, F., & Walheer, B. (2022). Financial inclusion, financial technology, and economic development: a composite index approach. Empirical Economics. doi:10.1007/s00181-021-02178-1

Walheer, B. (2022). Global Malmquist and cost Malmquist indexes for group comparison. Journal of Productivity Analysis. doi:10.1007/s11123-022-00640-5

Walheer, B., & Zhang, L. (2022). TOURISM PRODUCTIVITY INDICATORS IN A MULTIACTIVITY FRAMEWORK. Tourism Analysis, 27 (2), 233 - 236. doi:10.3727/108354221X16186396395746

Walheer, B. (2021). Labour productivity and technology heterogeneity. Journal of Macroeconomics, 68, 103290. doi:10.1016/j.jmacro.2021.103290

Walheer, B. (2021). A directional technology convergence index. Economics Bulletin.

Perelman, S., & Walheer, B. (2020). Economic growth and under-investment: A nonparametric approach. Economics Letters, 186. doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2019.108824

Walheer, B. (2020). Output, input, and undesirable output interconnections in Data Envelopment Analysis: convexity and returns-to-scale. Annals of Operations Research, 284, 447–467. doi:10.1007/s10479-018-3006-9

Walheer, B. (2020). A sector-based nonparametric decomposition of economic growth. Economics and Business Letters, 9. doi:10.17811/ebl.9.2.2020.48-55

Walheer, B., & He, M. (2020). Technology intensity and ownership in the Chinese manufacturing industry: A labor productivity decomposition approach. National Accounting Review, 2. doi:10.3934/NAR.2020007

Walheer, B., & He, M. (2020). Technical efficiency and technology gap of the manufacturing industry in China: Does firm ownership matter? World Development: the Multi-Disciplinary International Journal Devoted to the Study and Promotion of World Development, (127), 104769. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104769

Walheer, B., & He, M. (2020). Spillovers and path dependences in the Chinese manufacturing industry: a firm-level analysis. Journal of Development Studies, 56. doi:10.1080/00220388.2019.1605058

Walheer, B., Zhang, L., & Luo, Y. (2020). Bidirectional technological spillover in the Chinese star-rated hotel sector: an empirical investigation. Economic Modelling, 86, 210-226. doi:10.1016/j.econmod.2019.06.013

Walheer, B., & Liu, F. (June 2019). Financial inclusion, financial technology, and economic development: A composite index approach. Paper presented at European Workshop in Efficiency and Productivity Analysis XVI.

Walheer, B. (2019). Scale, congestion, and technical efficiency of European countries: a sector-based nonparametric approach. Empirical Economics, 56 (6), 2025-2078. doi:10.1007/s00181-018-1426-7

Walheer, B. (2019). Malmquist productivity index for multi-output producers: An application to electricity generation plants. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 65, 76-88. doi:10.1016/j.seps.2018.02.003

Walheer, B. (2019). Is constant returns-to-scale a restrictive assumption for sector-level empirical macroeconomics? The case of Europe. Applied Economics Letters, 26 (3), 231-236. doi:10.1080/13504851.2018.1458186

Walheer, B. (2019). Input allocation in multi-output settings: nonparametric robust efficiency measurements. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 70, 2127-2142. doi:10.1080/01605682.2018.1516175

Walheer, B. (2019). How foreign investments contribute to economic growth of industrial parks in China: a production frontier decomposition approach. Applied Economics Letters, 26, 281-285. doi:10.1080/13504851.2018.1467545

Walheer, B. (2019). Dynamic directional nonparametric profit efficiency analysis for a single decision making unit: an aggregation approach. OR Spectrum, 41, 1123-1149. doi:10.1007/s00291-019-00564-x

Walheer, B. (2019). Disentangling Heterogeneity Gaps and Pure Performance Differences in Composite Indexes Over Time: The Case of the Europe 2020 Strategy. Social Indicators Research, 143 (1), 25–45. doi:10.1007/s11205-018-1974-4

Walheer, B. (2019). Disaggregation for efficiency analysis. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 51 (2-3), 137–151. doi:10.1007/s11123-019-00546-9

Walheer, B. (2019). Aggregating Farrell efficiencies with private and public inputs. European Journal of Operational Research, 276 (3), 1170-1177. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2019.01.071

Walheer, B., & Hudik, M. (2019). Reallocation of resources in multi-divisional firms: a nonparametric approach. International Journal of Production Economics, 214, 196-205. doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.04.020

Walheer, B. (July 2018). Cost Malmquist productivity index: from output to group. Paper presented at Asia Pacific Productivity Conference, Seoul, South Korea.

Walheer, B. (2018). Scale efficiency for multi-output cost minimizing producers: The case of the US electricity plants. Energy Economics, 70, 26-36. doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2017.12.017

Walheer, B. (2018). Labour productivity growth and energy in Europe: a production-frontier approach. Energy, 152, 129-143. doi:10.1016/j.energy.2018.03.133

Walheer, B. (2018). Economic growth and greenhouse gases in Europe: A non-radial multi-sector nonparametric production-frontier analysis. Energy Economics, 74, 51-62. doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2018.05.028

Walheer, B. (2018). Disaggregation of the cost Malmquist productivity index with joint and output-specific inputs. Omega: the International Journal of Management Science, 75, 1-12. doi:10.1016/j.omega.2017.01.012

Walheer, B. (2018). Decomposing the Europe 2020 Index. Social Indicators Research, 140 (3), 875–905. doi:10.1007/s11205-017-1797-8

Walheer, B. (2018). Cost Malmquist productivity index: an output-specific approach for group comparison. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 49 (1), 79-94. doi:10.1007/s11123-017-0523-5

Walheer, B. (2018). Aggregation of metafrontier technology gap ratios the case of European sectors in 1995–2015. European Journal of Operational Research, 269, 1013-1026. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2018.02.048

Walheer, B., & Zhang, L. (2018). Profit Luenberger and Malmquist-Luenberger indexes for multi-activity decision-making units: The case of the star-rated hotel industry in China. Tourism Management, 69, 1-11. doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2018.05.003

Walheer, B. (November 2017). Cost Malmquist productivity index: from output to group. Paper presented at Annual CEPA International Workshop 2017, Brisbane, Australia.

Walheer, B. (2016). Multi-Sector Nonparametric Production-Frontier Analysis of the Economic Growth and the Convergence of the European Countries. Pacific Economic Review, 21, 498-524. doi:10.1111/1468-0106.12195

Walheer, B. (2016). Growth and convergence of the OECD countries: A multi-sector production-frontier approach. European Journal of Operational Research, 252 (2), 665-675. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2016.01.030

Walheer, B., Cherchye, L., & De Rock, B. (2016). Multi-output profit efficiency and directional distance functions. Omega: the International Journal of Management Science, 61, 100-109. doi:10.1016/j.omega.2015.07.010

Walheer, B., Cherchye, L., & De Rock, B. (2015). Multi-ouput efficiency with good and bad outputs. European Journal of Operational Research, 240, 872-881. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2014.07.028

Walheer, B., Cherchye, L., & De Rock, B. (2014). Reducing Energy Use Without Affecting Economic Objectives: A Sectoral Analysis. In A. Estache, The Next Generation of Economic Issues in Energy Policy in Europe. London, United Kingdom: CEPR Press.

Walheer, B. (June 2013). Nonparametric Input-Oriented Efficiency With Output-Specific Targets Application to the US electric plants that produces greenhouse gases as by-products. Paper presented at European Workshop in Efficiency and Productivity Analysis XIII, Helsinki, Finland.

Walheer, B. (June 2012). How cost efficient are European countries while aiming at the EU’s 2020 objectives? Paper presented at North American Productivity Workshop VII, Houston, Texas, United States.

Walheer, B. (2011). Labor productivity and technology heterogeneity. Journal of Macroeconomics, 68 (103290).