Publications
Books
Coelli, Tim and Lawrence, Denis (2006). Performance Measurement and Regulation of Network Utilities. 1st ed. Northampton, Mass, USA: Edward Elgar.
Coelli, T. J., Rao, D. S. P., O'Donnell, C. J. and Battese, G. E. (2005). An introduction to efficiency and productivity analysis. 2nd ed. New York, NY, United States: Springer. doi: 10.1007/b136381
Coelli, T., Estache, A., Perelman, S. and Trujillo, L. (2003). A Primer on Efficiency Measurement for Utilities and Transport Regulators. 1st ed. Washington DC, USA: The World Bank.
Coelli, Tim, Rao, D. S. Prasada and Battese, George E. (1998). An introduction to efficiency and productivity analysis. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic.
Book Chapters
Nghiem, Hong Son, Coelli, Tim and Rao, Prasada (2013). Microfinance in Vietnam. Social entrepreneurship and microfinance. (pp. 188-213) edited by Jonathan H. Westover. Champaign, IL, United States: Common Ground Publishing.
Coelli, Tim and Sanders, Orion (2013). The technical efficiency of wine grape growers in the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia. Wine economics: quantitative studies and empirical applications. (pp. 231-249) edited by Marie-Claude Pichery and Éric Giraud-Héraud. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137289520.0021
Coelli, Tim and Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat (2006). Regulatory Reform and Economic Performance in US Electricity Generation. Performance Measurement and Regulation of Network Utilities. (pp. 267-296) edited by T. Coelli and D. Lawrence. Northampton, Mass, US: Edward Elgar.
Coelli, T and Lawrence, D. (2006). Editors Introduction. Performance Measurement and Regulation of Network Utilities. (pp. 1-7) edited by T. Coelli and D. Lawrence. Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar.
Coelli, Tim and Walding, Shannon (2006). Performance measurement in the Australian water supply industry: A preliminary analysis. Performance measurement and regulation of network utilities. (pp. 29-61) edited by Tim Coelli and Denis Lawrence. Northampton, Mass, U.S.A.: Edward Elgar.
Prasado Rao, D. S. and Coelli, T. (2002). Economic performance of selected Asian countries in an international perspective: Economic growth, productivity and inequality. Economic efficiency and productivity growth in the Asia-Pacific Region. (pp. 100-137) edited by Tsu-Tan Fu, Cliff J. Huang and C.A. Knox Lovell. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar.
Journal Articles
Eckermann, Simon, Willan, Andrew R., Okely, Anthony, Tremblay, Mark S. and Coelli, Tim (2021). Robust cross-country comparison of children meeting 24-HR movement guidelines: an odds solution for binary effect efficiency measures. Journal of Public Health, 30 (8), 2059-2068. doi: 10.1007/s10389-021-01587-x
See, Kok Fong and Coelli, Tim (2014). Total factor productivity analysis of a single vertically integrated electricity utility in Malaysia using a Törnqvist index method. Utilities Policy, 28, 62-72. doi: 10.1016/j.jup.2013.11.001
See, Kok Fong and Coelli, Tim (2013). Estimating and decomposing productivity growth of the electricity generation industry in Malaysia: a stochastic frontier analysis. Energy Policy, 62, 207-214. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.06.115
Coelli, Tim J., Gautier, Axel, Perelman, Sergio and Saplacan-Pop, Roxana (2013). Estimating the cost of improving quality in electricity distribution: a parametric distance function approach. Energy Policy, 53, 287-297. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.10.060
Eckermann, Simon and Coelli, Tim (2013). Including quality attributes in efficiency measures consistent with net benefit: creating incentives for evidence based medicine in practice. Social Science & Medicine, 76 (1), 159-168. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.10.020
Arocena, Pablo, Saal, David S. and Coelli, Tim (2012). Vertical and horizontal scope economies in the regulated U.S. electric power industry. Journal of Industrial Economics, 60 (3), 434-467. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6451.2012.00486.x
See, Kok Fong and Coelli, Tim (2012). An analysis of factors that influence the technical efficiency of Malaysian thermal power plants. Energy Economics, 34 (3), 677-685. doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2011.09.005
Nghiem, Son, Coelli, Tim and Rao, Prasada (2012). Assessing the welfare effects of microfinance in Vietnam: Empirical results from a quasi-experimental survey. Journal of Development Studies, 48 (5), 619-632. doi: 10.1080/00220388.2011.638051
Hoang, Viet-Ngu and Coelli, Tim (2011). Measurement of agricultural total factor productivity growth incorporating environmental factors: A nutrients balance approach. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 62 (3), 462-474. doi: 10.1016/j.jeem.2011.05.009
Nghiem, Son, Coelli, Tim and Barber, Scott (2011). Sources of productivity growth in health services: A case study of Queensland public hospitals. Economic Analysis and Policy, 41 (1), 37-48. doi: 10.1016/S0313-5926(11)50003-7
Carrington, Roger, Coelli, Tim and Rao, Prasada (2011). Australian private health insurance productivity growth: Is there scope to limit premium increases?. The Economic Record, 87 (276), 125-139. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2010.00684.x
Lefebvre, Mathieu, Coelli, Tim and Pestieauz, Pierre (2010). On the convergence of social protection performance in the European Union. CESifo Economic Studies, 56 (2) ifp030, 300-322. doi: 10.1093/cesifo/ifp030
Peyrache, A. and Coelli, T. (2009). Testing procedures for detection of linear dependencies in efficiency models. European Journal of Operational Research, 198 (2), 647-654. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.08.014
Hajargasht, Gholamreza, Coelli, Tim and Rao, D. S. Prasada (2008). A dual measure of economies of scope. Economic Letters, 100 (2), 185-188. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.01.004
De Mateo, Filadelfo, Coelli, Tim J. and O'Donnell, Chris J. (2006). Optimal Paths and Costs of Adjustment in Dynamic DEA Models: With Application to Chilean Department Stores. Annals of Operations Research, 145 (1), 211-227. doi: 10.1007/s10479-006-0034-7
Nghiem, H., Coelli, T. and Rao, D. S. P. (2006). The efficiency of microfinance in Vietnam: Evidence from NGO schemes in the north and the central regions. International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, 2 (5), 71-78.
Coelli, T. J. and Rao, D.S. Prasada (2005). Total factor productivity growth in global agriculture: A Malmquist Index analysis of 93 countries, 1980-2000. Agricultural Economics, 31 (1), 115-134. doi: 10.1111/j.0169-5150.2004.00018.x
O'Donnell, Christopher J. and Coelli, Timothy J. (2005). A Bayesian approach to imposing curvature on distance functions. Journal of Econometrics, 126 (2), 493-523. doi: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2004.05.011
Carrington, R., Coelli, T. and Rao, D.S.P. (2005). The Performance of Australian Universities: Conceptual Issues and Preliminary Results. Economic Papers, 24 (2), 145-163. doi: 10.1111/j.1759-3441.2005.tb01001.x
Lawson, Lartey G., Agger, Jens F., Lund, Mogens and Coelli, Tim (2004). Lameness, metabolic and digestive disorders, and technical efficiency in Danish dairy herds: a stochastic frontier production function approach. Livestock Production Science, 91 (1-2), 157-172. doi: 10.1016/j.livprodsci.2004.07.016
Lawson, L. G., Bruun, J., Coelli, T., Agger, J. F. and Lund, M. (2004). Relationships of Efficiency to Reproductive Disorders in Danish Milk Production: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis. Journal of Dairy Science, 87 (1), 212-224. doi: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(04)73160-4
Rao, D.S.P. and Coelli, T. (2004). Catch-up and Convergence in Global Agricultural Productivity, 1980-1995. Indian Economic Review, 39 (1), 123-148.
Hasnah, Fleming, E and Coelli, T (2004). Assessing the performance of a nucleus estate and smallholder scheme for oil palm production in West Sumatra: a stochastic frontier analysis. Agricultural Systems, 79 (1), 17-30. doi: 10.1016/S0308-521X(03)00043-X
Bayarsaihan, T. and Coelli, T. (2003). Productivity growth in pre-1990 Mongolian agriculture: Spiralling disaster or emerging success?. Agricultural Economics, 28 (2), 121-137. doi: 10.1016/S0169-5150(02)00102-0
Coelli, T., Rahman, S and Thirtle, C (2003). A stochastic frontier approach to total factor productivity measurement in Bangladesh crop agriculture, 1961-92. Journal of International Development, 15 (3), 321-333. doi: 10.1002/jid.975
Leong, W.H., Dollery, B. and Coelli, T. (2003). Measuring the Technical Efficiency of Banks in Singapore for the Period 1993-99: An Application and Extension of the Bauer et. al. (1997) Technique. ASEAN Economic Bulletin, 20 (3), 195-210.
Nghiem, Hong Son and Coelli, Tim (2002). The effect of incentive reforms upon productivity: Evidence from the Vietnamese rice industry. Journal of Development Studies, 39 (1), 74-93. doi: 10.1080/00220380412331322671
Carrington, R., Coelli, T. J. and Groom, E. (2002). International benchmarking for monopoly price regulation: The case of Australian gas distribution. Journal of Regulatory Economics., 21 (2), 191-216. doi: 10.1023/A:1014391824113
Coelli, T, Grifell-Tatje, E and Perelman, S (2002). Capacity utilisation and profitability: A decomposition of short-run profit efficiency. International Journal of Production Economics, 79 (2002), 261-278. doi: 10.1016/S0925-5273(02)00236-0
Coelli, T, Rahman, S and Thirtle, C (2002). Technical, allocative, cost and scale efficiencies in Bangladesh rice cultivation: A non-parametric approach. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 53 (3), 607-626. doi: 10.1111/j.1477-9552.2002.tb00040.x
Conference Papers
Coelli, T., Hajargasht, G. and Lovell, Charles A.K. (2007). Econometric Estimation of an Input Distance Function in a System of Equations. ESAM07 Australian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Brisbane, Australia, 3-6 July 2007. Brisbane, Australia: Econometric Society.
Coelli, T. J., Crespo, H., Perelman, S., Plagnet, M. A. and Romano, E. (2007). Incorporating quality of service in a benchmarking model: An application to French electricity distribution operators. 19th International Conference on Electricity Distribution, Vienna, Austria, 21-24 May, 2007.
Coelli, T., Lauwers, L. and Van Huylenbroeck, G. (2007). Environmental efficiency measurement and the materials balance condition. Dordrecht: Springer. doi: 10.1007/s11123-007-0052-8
Coelli, Tim J. and Rao, D. S. Prasada (2005). Total factor productivity growth in agriculture: A Malmquist index analysis of 93 countries, 1980-2000. Twenty-Fifth International Conference of Agricultural Economists, Durban, South Africa, 16 - 22 August 2003. Hoboken, NJ United States: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1111/j.0169-5150.2004.00018.x
Coelli, Tim and Fleming, Euan (2004). Diversification economies and specialisation efficiencies in a mixed food and coffee smallholder farming system in Papua New Guinea. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.agecon.2004.09.010
Lauwers, L., Van Huylenbroeck, G. and Coelli, T. (2004). Materials balance-based modelling of environmental efficiency. 4th International Symposium of DEA, Aston University, Birmingham, UK, 5-6 September 2004. Birmingham, UK: Aston University.
Karim, Noor Al-Huda Abdul, Winters, Paul, Coelli, Tim and Fleming, Euan (2003). Foreign direct investment in manufacturing sector in Malaysia. 47th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES), Fremantle, Western Australia, 11-14 February 2003. Australia: Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
Coelli, T.J., Prasada Rao, D. S. and Soriano, F. (2003). Aggregation of Farrell efficiencies with possible reallocation of inputs. VIII European Workshop of Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (8EWEPA), Oviedo, Spain, 25-27 Sep 2003.
Soriano, Franklin A., Prasada Rao, D. S. and Coelli, Tim (2003). On aggregation of total factor productivity measures. Economic Measurement Group Workshop 2003, Sydney, Australia, 11-12 December, 2003. Centre for Applied Economic Research.
O'Donnell, Christopher J. and Coelli, Timothy (2003). A Bayesian Approach to Imposing Curvature on Distance Functions. 2003 Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Sydney, Australia, 9-11 July, 2003.
Research Report
Rao, Prasada, Coelli, Timothy J. and Alauddin, Mohammad (2004). Agricultural productivity growth, employment and poverty in developing countries, 1970-2000. Geneva, Switzerland: International Labour Organization.
Working Papers
Coelli, Timothy (2009). Quantifying the effects of modelling choices on hospital efficiency measures: A meta-regression analysis. Working Paper. WP07/2009. School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Coelli, Timothy (2009). The Effects of Competition Policy on TFP Growth: Some Evidence from the Malaysian Electricity Supply Industry. Working Paper. WP06/2009. School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Coelli, Timothy (2009). Measurement of agricultural total factor productivity growth incorporating environmental factors: a nutrients balance approach. Working Paper. WP03/2009. School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Carrington, Roger, Coelli, Tim and Rao, D. S. Prasada (2008). Regulation of private health insurance premiums: Can performance assessment play a greater role?. Working Paper. WP04/2008. School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Coelli, Timothy (2008). Including quality attributes in a model of health care efficiency: A net benefit approach. Working Paper. WP03/2008. School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Coelli, Timothy (2005). Formulation of Technical, Economic and Environmental Efficiency Measures That Are Consistent With the Materials balance Condition. Working Paper. WP06/2005. School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Coelli, Timothy and Walding, Shannon (2005). Performance Measurement in the Australian Water Supply Industry. Working Paper. WP01/2005. School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Coelli, Timothy and Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat (2004). Regulatory Reform and Economic Performance in US Electricity Generation. Working Paper. WP06/2004. School of Economics, University of Queensland.
Department Technical Reports
Coelli, Tim J. and Rao, D. S. Prasada (2003). Total Factor Productivity Growth in Agriculture: A Malmquist Index Analysis of 93 Countries, 1980-2000. Working Paper no. 02/2003. Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, School of Economics, The University of Queensland.
O'Donnell, Chris and Coelli, Tim J. (2003). A Bayesian Approach To Imposing Curvature On Distance Functions. Working Paper No. 03/2003. Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, School of Economics, The University of Queensland.