Professor
Department of Economics
Office
Department of Economics
309 Ballard Extension Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-3612
Telephone: 541-737-8185
email:
shawna.grosskopf@orst.edu
Office Hours
Current term faculty office hours can be found at Faculty Office Hours
Courses
Winter Term 2001
Econ 4/535 - The Public Economy - Mon. & Wed.- 1-2:50 p.m.
Econ 4/563 - Efficiency & Productivity analysis - Mon. & Wed.- 3-4:50 p.m.
Links
http://ucs.orst.edu/~grosskos/eff-prod.htm
Education
1977, Ph.D. and M.S., Syracuse University
1972, B.A., Kalamazoo College
Professional Activities:
1992-present: Advisory Board, Journal of Productivity Analysis
1997-present: Editorial Board, Health Care Management Science
Areas of Specialization:
Public (State and Local) Finance
Performance Measurement
Labor/Public Employment
Selected Publications:
1. (C. Moutray), "Evaluation of School Reform in Chicago Public Schools," Economics of Education Review, forthcoming.
2. (R. Färe, S. Grosskopf and Y.H. Chung) "Productivity and Undesirable Outputs: A Directional Distance Function Approach," Journal of Environmental Management, 51,1997, 229-240.
3. (R. Färe and S. Grosskopf) "Profit Efficiency, Farrell Decompositions and the Mahler Inequality," Economics Letters, 57, 1997, 283-287.
4. (S. Grosskopf, K. Hayes, L. Taylor and W. Weber) "Anticipating the Consequences of School Reform: a new use of DEA," Management Science, 45:4, 1999, 608-620.
5. (S. Grosskopf, K. Hayes, L. Taylor and W. Weber) "Budget-Constrained Frontier Measures of Fiscal Equality and Efficiency in Schooling," Review of Economics and Statistics, 79:1, February 1997, 116-124.
6. (S. Grosskopf), "Statistical Inference and Nonparametric Efficiency: A Selective Survey," Journal of Productivity Analysis 7, 1996, 161-176.
7. (R. Chambers, R. Färe and S. Grosskopf), "Productivity Growth in APEC Countries,'' Pacific Economic Review, 1:3, December 1996, 181-190.
8. (J. Clement, S. Grosskopf and V. Valdmanis) "A Comparison of Shadow Prices and Reimbursement Rates of Hospital Services," Annals of Operations Research, 67, 1996, 163-182.
9. (R. Färe and S. Grosskopf), "Nonparametric Tests of Regularity, Farrell Efficiency and Goodness-of-Fit," Journal of Econometrics, 69, 1995, 415-425.
10. (S. Grosskopf, K. Hayes, J. Hirschberg), "Fiscal Stress and the Production of Public Safety: A Distance Function Approach," Journal of Public Economics 57, 1995,277-296.
11. (R. Färe, S. Grosskopf, M. Norris, Z. Zhang) "Productivity Growth, Technical Progress and Efficiency Change in Industrialized Countries," American Economic Review, 84:1, March 1994, 66-83.
12. (G. Ferrier, S. Grosskopf, K. Hayes, S. Yaisawarng) "Economics of Diversification in the Banking Industry: A Frontier Approach," Journal of Monetary Economics, 31, 1993, 229-249.
13. (S. Grosskopf and K. Hayes) "Local Public Sector Bureaucrats and Their Input Choices," Journal of Urban Economics, 33, 1993, 151-166.
14. (R. Färe,S. Grosskopf, C.A.K. Lovell, S. Yaisawarng) "Derivation of Shadow Prices for Undesirable Outputs: A Distance Function Approach," Review of Economics and Statistics, 1993, 374-380.
15. (S. Grosskopf, K. Hayes and S. Yaisawarng) "Measuring Economies of Diversification: A Frontier Approach," Journal of Business Economics and Statistics, 10:4, 1992, 453-459.
Books and Monographs:
1. (R. Färe, C.A.K. Lovell) The Measurement of Efficiency of Production, Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishing, Boston (1985).
2. (R. Färe) Cost and Revenue Constrained Production, Bilkent University Lecture Series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (1994).
3. (R. Färe, C.A.K. Lovell) Production Frontiers, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1994).
4. (R. Färe) Intertemporal Production Frontiers, Kluwer-Nijhoff (1996).
5. (R. Färe and R. R. Russell), eds., Index Numbers: Essays in Honor of Sten Malmquist, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1998.
Current Research (Unpublished)
1. (S. Grosskopf, K. Hayes, L. Taylor, W. Weber) "On Competition and School Efficiency", Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, working paper 95-06.
2. (D. Boisso, S. Grosskopf and K. Hayes) "Regional Productivity and Efficiency in the U.S.: Effects of Business Cycles and Public Capital", Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, working paper 96-02.
3. (M. Davis, S. Grosskopf, K. Hayes, J. Hirschberg) "Safety Services: Implicit Valuation by Type of Crime," mimeo, revised 1996.
4. (D. Margaritis, S. Grosskopf and V. Valdmanis) "Effect of Teaching on Hospital Productivity", mimeo, June 1996.
5. (R. Färe, S. Grosskopf, W. Weber) "The Effect of Risk-Based Capital Requirements on Profit Efficiency in Banking", 1997.
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