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{{Short description|Indian-American economist}}
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{{Infobox economist
| name = Subal C. Kumbhakar
| image = File:SUBAL C. KUMBHAKAR.jpg
| institution = [[State University of New York at Binghamton]]
| field = [[Econometrics]]<br />Applied Microeconometrics<br />Measurement of Efficiency and Productivity
| alma_mater = [[Calcutta University]]<br />[[University of Southern California]]
| doctoral_students =
}}

'''Subal C. Kumbhakar''' is an Indian born American economist. He is a Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at Binghamton University.<ref name="r1">{{cite web |url=https://www.binghamton.edu/economics/faculty/tenure-track.html |title=Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty - Economics, Binghamton University |date=February 4, 2020 |accessdate=February 11, 2020 }}</ref> He was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa, 1997, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.<ref name="r13">{{cite web |title=Hedersdoktorer vid Göteborgs universitet under 100 år, 1907 - 2007 |url=https://medarbetarportalen.gu.se/digitalAssets/1724/1724622_1410942_hd_vid_gu_1907-2007.pdf |accessdate=20 February 2020 |ref=Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Gothenburg}}</ref> He is a fellow of Journal of Econometrics,<ref name="r3">{{cite web |url=https://kundoc.com/pdf-announcement-fellows-of-the-journal-of-econometrics-.html |title=Announcement: Fellows of the journal of econometrics |date=January 1, 1970 |access-date=February 18, 2020}}</ref> distinguished author of Journal of Applied Econometrics,<ref name="r4">{{cite web |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10991255/homepage/distinguished_authors.htm |title=Journal of Applied Econometrics |date=1999–2019 |doi=10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1255 |access-date=February 18, 2020}}</ref> co-editor of the Social Science Citation Index journal Empirical Economics,<ref name="r12">{{cite web |title=Empirical Economics |url=https://www.springer.com/journal/181/editors |website=Empirical Economics, Editors |publisher=Springer |accessdate=19 February 2020}}</ref> coauthor of a highly cited book on Stochastic Frontier Analysis.<ref name="r11">{{cite book |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Lovell |first2=C.A. |title=A Practitioner's Guide to Stochastic Frontier Analysis Using Stata |date=2000 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781139174411 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/stochastic-frontier-analysis/510E56C2F890A0E6B38B4C4B241645B6 |accessdate=19 February 2020}}</ref> He is associated with the University of Stavanger, Norway<ref>{{cite web |title=Kumbhakar, Subal Chandra, UiS |url=https://www.uis.no/article.php?articleID=102108&categoryID=11198 |website=universitetet i stavanger |accessdate=25 February 2020}}</ref> and Inland School of Business and Social Sciences, Lillehammer, Norway.<ref>{{cite web |title=Subal C. Kumbhakar, INN University |url=https://eng.inn.no/about-inn-university/employees/subal-kumbhakar |website=Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences Search |accessdate=25 February 2020}}</ref> He advises Oxera Consulting LLP Oxford, UK<ref>{{cite web|title=Oxera Consulting LLP|url=https://www.oxera.com/|website=Oxera Compelling Economics|accessdate=25 February 2020}}</ref> on regulatory performance measures.<ref>{{cite web |title=Professor Subal C. Kumbhakar, Oxera Consulting LLP |url=https://www.oxera.com/people/professor-subal-c-kumbhakar/ |website=Oxera Compelling Economics |accessdate=25 February 2020}}</ref> He is internationally known for his research on efficiency and productivity. His models on efficiency and productivity are used by researchers worldwide.

== Academic career ==
Subal received his Ph.D. in economics from the [[University of Southern California]] in 1986. His main area of research is on econometric estimation of efficiency and productivity using Stochastic Frontier Approach. He has formulated a variety of panel data models to measure efficiency, which are applied by researchers and practitioners all over the world. His recent works include estimating green productivity and environmental efficiency. He also researched on economics. His current research includes productivity measurement.

Subal is currently a co-editor of [[Empirical Economics]].<ref name="r12">{{cite web |title=Empirical Economics |url=https://www.springer.com/journal/181/editors |website=Empirical Economics, Editors |publisher=Springer |accessdate=19 February 2020}}</ref> He has also been serving as a Board of Editors and/or associate editors of Journal of Productivity Analysis since 1998,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.springer.com/journal/11123/editors |title=Journal of Productivity Analysis, Editors |date=2020 |access-date=February 11, 2020}}</ref> Technological Forecasting and Social Change: An International Journal since 1991,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.journals.elsevier.com/technological-forecasting-and-social-change/editorial-board |title=Technological Forecasting and Social Change Editorial Board |date=2020 |accessdate=February 11, 2020}}</ref> Journal of Regulatory Economics since 2015,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.springer.com/journal/11149/editors |title=Journal of Regulatory Economics, Editors |date=2020 |accessdate=February 11, 2020}}</ref> Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies since 2007,<ref>{{cite web |title=Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=reme20 |website=Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, Editorial board |publisher=Taylor & Francis Group |accessdate=20 February 2020 |ref=Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, Editorial board}}</ref> Applied Econometrics since 2016,<ref>{{cite web |title=Journal "Applied Econometrics" |url=http://appliedeconometrics.cemi.rssi.ru/AppEc_en.html |website=APPLIED ECONOMETRICS |accessdate=20 February 2020 |ref=Journal "Applied Econometrics", Editor-in-Chief}}</ref> Ecos de Economia: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics since 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ecos-economia/about/editorialTeam |title=Editorial Team, Ecos de Economía: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics |date=2018 |accessdate=February 11, 2020}}</ref>

Subal is a co-author of the books [[Stochastic Frontier Analysis]]<ref name="r11">{{cite book |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Lovell |first2=C.A. |title=A Practitioner's Guide to Stochastic Frontier Analysis Using Stata |date=2000 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781139174411 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/stochastic-frontier-analysis/510E56C2F890A0E6B38B4C4B241645B6 |accessdate=19 February 2020}}</ref> (2000) with Knox Lovell, and A Practitioner's Guide to Stochastic Frontier Analysis (2015) with H-J Wang and A Horncastle, both published by the [[Cambridge University Press]].

== Academic history ==
*1986 Ph.D., [[Economics]], [[University of Southern California]]
*1983 Masters of Arts, Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
*1977 Masters of Arts, Economics, [[Calcutta University]], Calcutta, India

== Positions held ==
*2005–present, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, [[Binghamton University, State University of New York]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.binghamton.edu/academics/provost/faculty-resources/distinguished.html |title=Distinguished Faculty - Office of the Provost, Binghamton University |date=January 21, 2020 |accessdate=February 15, 2020 }}</ref>
*2001 - 2005, Professor, Economics Department, Binghamton University (State University of New York)
*1986 - 2000, Assistant, Associate and Full Professor, Economics Department, [[University of Texas at Austin]]
*1977 - 1981, Assistant Professor and Reader, Economics Department, [[University of Burdwan]], Burdwan, India.

== Honors ==

*Doctor Honoris Causa, [[University of Gothenburg]], Sweden, 1997<ref name="r13">{{cite web |title=Hedersdoktorer vid Göteborgs universitet under 100 år, 1907 - 2007 |url=https://medarbetarportalen.gu.se/digitalAssets/1724/1724622_1410942_hd_vid_gu_1907-2007.pdf |accessdate=20 February 2020 |ref=Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Gothenburg}}</ref>
*Fellow, [[Journal of Econometrics]], 1998.<ref name="r3">{{cite web |url=https://kundoc.com/pdf-announcement-fellows-of-the-journal-of-econometrics-.html |title=Announcement: Fellows of the journal of econometrics |date=January 1, 1970 |access-date=February 18, 2020}}</ref>
*Distinguished author, Journal of applied econometrics, 2017.<ref name="r4">{{cite web |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10991255/homepage/distinguished_authors.htm |title=Journal of Applied Econometrics |date=1999–2019 |doi=10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1255 |access-date=February 18, 2020}}</ref>
*Member/Opponent of Ph.D. Evaluation Committee (International): [[Athens University of Economics and Business]] (Greece), [[University of Western Australia]] (Perth), [[Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences]] (Umea, Sweden), [[Norwegian University of Life Sciences]] (As, Norway), [[Charles University]] (Czech Republic), [[Technical University of Dresden]] (Germany), [[University of Helsinki]] (Finland), [[University of Stavanger]] (Norway), [[Wageningen University]] (Netherlands), [[University of New England (Australia)|University of New England]] (Australia), [[University of Gothenburg]] (Sweden), Norwegian School of Business Administration (Bergen, Norway)[https://www.nhh.no/], [[Agricultural University of Norway]] (As, Norway), [[Indian Statistical Institute]] (Calcutta, India), [[Burdwan University]] (West Bengal, India), [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] (New Delhi, India).

== Selected published works ==
=== Books ===
*{{cite book |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Lovell |first2=C.A. |title= Stochastic Frontier Analysis |publisher=Cambridge: [[Cambridge University Press]] |date=2000 |doi=10.1017/CBO9781139174411 |isbn=9781139174411 }} Paperback version, 2003; Fudan Translation Series (Chinese translation ), 2008.
*{{cite book | last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2= Parmeter |first2=Christopher |title=Efficiency Analysis: A Primer on Recent Advances |url=https://www.nowpublishers.com/article/Details/ECO-023 |publisher=NOW Publishing Company monograph |date=2014 |isbn=978-1601988966}}
*{{cite book | last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2= Wang |first2=Hung-Jen |last3=Horncastle |first3=Alan |title=A Practitioner's Guide to Stochastic Frontier Analysis Using Stata |publisher=Cambridge: [[Cambridge University Press]] |date=2015 |doi=10.1017/CBO9781139342070 |isbn=9781139342070}}
*{{cite book |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |editor1-last=Ray |editor1-first=Subhash |editor12-last=Dua |editor12-first=Pami |title=Benchmarking for Performance Evaluation: A Production Frontier Approach |publisher=[[Springer Publishing|Springer]] |date=2015 |url=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9788132222521 |isbn=978-81-322-2253-8 }}

===Journal special issue editor===
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Ray |first2=Subhash |title=Performance Measurement: Methodological and Empirical Issues |journal=Indian Economic Review |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=1–5 |date=2010 |jstor=29793966 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Sickles |first2=Robin |title=Auction and Games |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-econometrics/vol/168/issue/1 |journal=Journal of Econometrics |volume=168 |issue=1 |pages=1–174 |date=2012 |doi=10.1016/j.jeconom.2011.09.014 |url-access=subscription }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Førsund |first2=Finn |title=In Memoriam: Lennart Hjalmarsson, 1944–2012 |journal=Journal of Productivity Analysis |volume=43 |issue=3 |pages=233–415 |date=2015 |doi=10.1007/s11123-015-0444-0 |doi-access=free }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Parmeter |first2=Christopher |title=Applications of Nonparametric and Semiparametric Models |journal=Empirical Economics |volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=1–8 |date=2015 |doi=10.1007/s00181-014-0889-4 |doi-access=free }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Schmidt |first2=Peter |title=Endogeneity in Econometric Models |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-econometrics/vol/190/issue/2 |journal=Empirical Economics |volume=190 |issue=2 |pages=209–374 |date=2016 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Malikov |first2=Emir |title=Good Modelling of Bad Outputs |journal=Empirical Economics |volume=54 |issue=1 |pages=1–6 |date=2018 |doi=10.1007/s00181-017-1231-8 |doi-access=free }}

=== Selected journal publications ===
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Jin |first2=Man |last3=Zhao |first3=Shunan |title=Information Asymmetry and Leverage Adjustments: A Semiparametric Varying Coefficient Approach |journal=Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society) |volume=183 |issue=2 |pages=581–605 |date=2019 |doi=10.1111/rssa.12524 |s2cid=209980241 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Lai |first2=Hung-pin |title=Technical and Allocative Efficiency in a Panel Stochastic Production Frontier System Model |journal=European Journal of Operational Research |volume=278 |issue=1 |pages=255–265 |date=2019 |doi=10.1016/j.ejor.2019.04.001 |s2cid=132710806 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Delgado |first2=Michael |last3=Ozabaci |first3=Deniz |first4=Yiguo |last4=Sun |title=Smooth Coefficient Models with Endogenous Environmental Variables |journal=Econometric Reviews |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=158–180 |date=2020 |doi=10.1080/07474938.2018.1552413 |s2cid=159099212 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/7854824 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Yao |first2=Feng |last3=Zhang |first3=Fan |title=Semiparametric smooth coefficient stochastic frontier model with panel data |journal=Journal of Business & Economic Statistics |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=556–572 |date=2019 |doi=10.1080/07350015.2017.1390467 |s2cid=125322361 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/5496955 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Malikov |first2=Emir |last3=Restrepo-Tobón |first3=Diego |title=Heterogeneous Credit Union Production Technologies with Endogenous Switching and Correlated Effects |journal=Econometric Reviews |volume=37 |issue=10 |pages=1095–1119 |date=2018 |doi=10.1080/07474938.2016.1222234 |s2cid=85536174 |url=https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/71593/1/MPRA_paper_71593.pdf }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Henderson |first2=Daniel |last3=Li |first3=Qi |last4= Parmeter |first4=Christopher |title=Smooth coefficient estimation of a seemingly unrelated regression |journal=Journal of Econometrics |volume=189 |issue=1 |pages=148–162 |date=2015 |doi=10.1016/j.jeconom.2015.07.002 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Tsionas |first2=Efthymios |title=The Good, The Bad and The Technology: Endogeneity in Environmental Production Models |journal=Journal of Econometrics |volume=190 |issue=2 |pages=315–327 |date=2016 |doi=10.1016/j.jeconom.2015.06.008 |url=https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/74588/1/KT_feb15.pdf }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Sun |first2=Kai |last3=Restrepo-Tobón |first3=Diego |title=Obelix vs. Asterix: Size of U.S. Commercial Banks and Its Regulatory Challenge |journal=Journal of Regulatory Economics |volume=48 |pages=125–168 |date=2015 |issue=2 |doi=10.1007/s11149-015-9275-1 |hdl=10784/7615 |s2cid=154452172 |url=https://salford-repository.worktribe.com/output/1417307/obelix-vs-asterix-size-of-us-commercial-banks-and-its-regulatory-challenge }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=McCloud |first2=Nadine |title=Institutions, foreign direct investment and growth: A hierarchical Bayesian approach |journal=Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society) |volume=175 |issue=1 |pages=83–105 |date=2012 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.00710.x |s2cid=119767541 |hdl=10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.00710.x |hdl-access=free }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Bokusheva |first2=Raushan |title=Modeling Farm's Production Decisions under Expenditure Constraints |journal=European Review of Agricultural Economics |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=343–367 |date=2009 |doi=10.1093/erae/jbp031 |hdl=20.500.11850/413528 |hdl-access=free }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Wang |first2=Hung-Jen |title=Pitfalls in the Estimation of Cost Function Ignoring Allocative Inefficiency: A Monte Carlo Analysis |journal=Journal of Econometrics |volume=134 |issue=2 |pages=317–340 |date=2006 |doi=10.1016/j.jeconom.2005.06.025 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Sarkar |first2=Subrata |title=Deregulation, Ownership and Productivity Growth in the Banking Industry: Evidence from India |journal=Journal of Money, Credit and Banking |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=403–424 |date=2003 |doi=10.1353/mcb.2003.0020 |jstor=3649838 |s2cid=153552779 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |title=Estimation of Profit Function when Profit is not Maximum |journal=American Journal of Agricultural Economics |volume=83 |issue=1 |date=2001 |pages=1–19 |doi=10.1111/0002-9092.00133 |jstor=1244296 |s2cid=154451078 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Hjalmarsson |first2=Lennart |title=Relative Performance of Public and Private Ownership under Yardstick Competition: Electricity Retail Distribution |journal=European Economic Review |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=97–122 |date=1998 |doi=10.1016/S0014-2921(96)00052-9 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Heshmati |first2=Almas |title=Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth in Swedish Manufacturing Industries |journal=Econometric Reviews |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=275–298 |date=1996 |doi=10.1080/07474939608800356 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Wheelock |first2=David |title=Which Banks Chose Deposit Insurance? Evidence of Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in a Voluntary Insurance System |journal=Journal of Money, Credit and Banking |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=186–201 |date=1995 |doi=10.2307/2077858 |jstor=2077858 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |title=Allocative Distortions, Technical Progress, and Input Demand in U.S. Airlines: 1970-1984 |journal=International Economic Review |volume=33 |issue=3 |date=1992 |pages=723–737 |doi=10.2307/2527135 |jstor=2527135 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Bhattacharyya |first2=Arunava |title=Price Distortions and Resource-Use Efficiency in Indian Agriculture: A Restricted Profit Function Approach |journal=Review of Economics and Statistics |url=https://ideas.repec.org/a/tpr/restat/v74y1992i2p231-39.html |volume=74 |issue=2 |pages=231–239 |date=1992 |doi=10.2307/2109654 |jstor=2109654 |url-access=subscription }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |last2=Ghosh |first2=Soumendra |last3=McGuckin |first3=Thomas |title=A Generalized Production Frontier Approach for Estimating Determinants of Inefficiency in U.S Dairy Farms |journal=Journal of Business and Economic Statistics |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=279–286 |date=1991 |doi=10.1080/07350015.1991.10509853 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Kumbhakar |first1=Subal |title=The Specification of Technical and Allocative Inefficiency in Stochastic Production and Profit Frontiers |journal=Journal of Econometrics |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=335–348 |date=1987 |doi=10.1016/0304-4076(87)90016-9 }}

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=-rB5HVsAAAAJ Subal Kumbhakar at Google Scholar]
*https://meteor.springer.com/project/dashboard.jsf?id=552&tab=About
*http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~kkar/index.html
*http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~kkar/cv2_03.pdf

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