North American Productivity Workshop X (NAPW X)

Conference Dates:  June 12-15, 2018

Conference Venue: Miami Business School, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA

Conference Website: http://www.bus.miami.edu/thought-leadership/business-conferences/napw/index.html

Dear Colleagues,

The North American Productivity Workshop (NAPW), along with EWEPA and APPC, has long been established as a

major biennial conference on the topics of productivity, efficiency, and performance analysis. We expect a large and

diverse number of participants to attend NAPW X in Miami, hosted at Miami Business School, from a diverse,

international community. Presentations and contributed sessions are invited on the theory and application of

economics, econometrics, statistics, management science and operational research related to problems in the areas

of productivity and efficiency measurement. All popular techniques and methodologies will be represented,

including stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis. We also welcome papers on broader issues

related to measuring, understanding, incentivizing and improving the productivity and performance of firms, public

services, and industries. We will have the young researchers pre-conference on June 12, along with a diverse set of

keynote and plenary speakers across the four days of the conference.

Important dates:

Abstract submission closes: February 2, 2018

Notification of acceptance: February 15,  2018

Early registration ends: March 15, 2018

Registration deadline to present: April 15, 2018

Conference dates: June 12-15, 2018

All questions pertaining to the conference or the city of Miami may be addressed to me at cparmeter@bus.miami.edu

On behalf of the scientific committee, I look forward to welcoming all participants of NAPW X in June 2018 to sunny Miami.

The NAPW X organizing committee

Christopher F. Parmeter

Call for Papers

4th LEER Conference on Education Economics
March 28-29, 2018, KU Leuven, Campus Leuven (Belgium)

Deadline: January 5, 2018

This conference seeks to explore the use of economic and econometric techniques to study educational issues. We invite the submission of original research from colleagues working in the area. We especially welcome research which applies identification strategies as difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, static and dynamic choice modeling, (non-)parametric frontier models and structural equations. Both macro and micro-economic topics are of interest to this workshop.

The conference is organized by the research center ‘Leuven Economics of Education Research’ (LEER) of the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven.

Call for papers:
The conference includes oral and poster presentations. For all types of proposals, speakers are expected to send a minimum 200-300 word structured abstract to ann.vanespen@kuleuven.be by January 5, 2018 at the latest.

Authors will be notified on acceptance by January 22, 2018.

All details about this conference can be found by clicking on this link.

Currently there are several special issues in “Data Envelopment Analysis Journal”, see details below.

Manuscript Preparation /submission:

Please refer to the Journal Information and Instructions for Author about manuscript preparation: http://www.nowpublishers.com/Journal/AuthorInstructions/DEA

Call for papers: Data Envelopment Analysis Journal

Data Envelopment Analysis Journal Special issue on Measurement of Performance in Emerging Economies and Middle Income Countries Guest editors: Ali Emrouznejad, Aston Business School, Birmingham, UK Subhash C. Ray, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT USA Nurhan Davutyan, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey. LI Yongjun, University of Science and Technology of China

We invite high quality papers on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for a special issue of the DEA Journal on measurement of performance in Emerging Economies and Middle Income Countries. The aim of this special issue is to publish state-of-the-art empirical research using the DEA methodology for evaluating performance in addressing problems including (but not limited to) productivity, physical infrastructure, management of natural resources, education, employment, health care, competition in different sectors, as well as regulation/reform.

Manuscript Preparation /submission:

Please refer to the Journal Information and Instructions for Author about manuscript preparation: http://www.nowpublishers.com/Journal/AuthorInstructions/DEA

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2018

Anticipated publication: April, 2019

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Reviewing 

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed in the same manner as any other submission to a leading international journal. The major acceptance criterion for a submission is the quality and originality of the contribution.

Call for papers: Data Envelopment Analysis Journal

Data Envelopment Analysis Journal Special issue on Measurement of Environmental Efficiency Guest editors: Subhash C. Ray, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT USA Ali Emrouznejad, Aston Business School, Birmingham, UK Kankana Mukherjee, Babson College, Wellesley, MA, USA

We invite high quality papers on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for consideration for publication in a special issue of the DEA Journal on measurement of environmental efficiency and productivity. The aim of this special issue is to publish state-of-the-art analytical and empirical research using DEA as a methodology for evaluating environmental performance in managing air, water, and land pollution. New and improved models of DEA for analyzing production processes with undesirable outputs as well as novel applications to the different sources of pollution, including (but not limited to) agriculture, residential, transportation, and industry in the context of emerging as well as developed economies are welcome.

Manuscript Preparation /submission:

Please refer to the Journal Information and Instructions for Author about manuscript preparation: http://www.nowpublishers.com/Journal/AuthorInstructions/DEA

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: July 31, 2018

Anticipated publication: July, 2019

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Reviewing 

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed in the same manner as any other submission to a leading international journal. The major acceptance criterion for a submission is the quality and originality of the contribution.

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences: The International Journal of Public Sector Decision-Making

Special issue on Indices for the Betterment of the Public

Guest editors: 

Vincent Charles, Director of Research (Intl. Affairs), CENTRUM Católica Graduate Business School, Peru

Ali Emrouznejad, Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

Michael P. Johnson, McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA

Further details: please click here.

Over the years, the quest for a better society has led to the birth of a variety of composite indices of development, from the gross domestic product to the happiness index. These indices usually integrate various social, cultural, psychological, and political aspects and are considered of vital importance for evaluating a country’s level of development and for assessing the impact of policy specially in public sector. Overall, they consist of numerical measures that describe the well-being of both the individual and the society as a whole.

The Special Issue of Socio-Economic Planning Sciences encourages original research articles of high quality that provide innovative quantitative and qualitative methodologies based on optimization/non-optimization, statistical learning, econometrics, and heuristics.

Topics include but are not limited to:

•             Big Mac Index

•             Competitiveness Index

•             Corruption Perception Index

•             Country Risk Index

•             Democracy Index

•             Doing Business Index

•             GINI Index

•             Global Entrepreneurship Index

•             Global Marketing Index

•             Happiness Index

•             Human Development Index

•             Index of Economic Freedom

•              Social Progress Index, and so on

As such, the Special Issue focuses on the conceptualization and development of new indices for the betterment of the public and/or novel algorithms/approaches that integrate or refine the above indices and/or novel ways of using the existing indices to improve the public policies that serve the greater good. Moreover, this special issue is intended for articles that go beyond purely suggesting a new/modern/revised index with the economics view and conceivably validating it using real life vital data sets; hence, articles that eventually help policy-makers to not only gain an advanced understanding of the ways that would unleash greater long-term social success, but also propose strategies that would create the conditions for the betterment of the public are encouraged.

Contributions from both the academic and the practitioner communities are encouraged. Submitted articles should include a separate section on implications for public policy and, among others, the section should discuss the tie between the proposed indices and the decision strategies in view of public policy.

Important Dates

Editorial Process

Manuscripts need to be submitted via https://www.journals.elsevier.com/socio-economic-planning-sciences by choosing Article Type “Indices”. Early submission recommended, referee process starts once the paper received, accepted papers will be published individually online as they are accepted.  Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed in the same manner as any other submission to a leading international journal. The major acceptance criterion for a submission is the quality and originality of the contribution.