Rate My Professor Subal Kumbhakar

Subal C. Kumbhakar is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at Binghamton, contributing to the Business & Economics faculty through his expertise in econometrics and productivity analysis. He earned his PhD in Economics in 1986 and MA in Economics in 1983 from the University of Southern California, along with an MA in Economics in 1977 and a BA from the University of Calcutta. Kumbhakar's academic career spans several institutions: he began as Assistant Professor and Reader at the University of Burdwan in India from 1977 to 1981, advanced through Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor positions at the University of Texas at Austin from 1986 to 2000, joined Binghamton University as Professor in 2001, and has served as Distinguished Research Professor since 2005. His research specializations include econometrics, applied microeconometrics, and the measurement of efficiency and productivity, with pioneering work in stochastic frontier models and production frontiers.

Kumbhakar has authored key publications such as "Stochastic Frontier Analysis" co-authored with C.A. Knox Lovell (Cambridge University Press, 2000), "Production Frontiers" with C.A. Knox Lovell (Cambridge University Press), "A Practitioner's Guide to Stochastic Frontier Analysis Using Stata" with Hung-Jen Wang and Alan Horncastle (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and "Efficiency Analysis: A Primer on Recent Advances" with Christopher Parmeter (2014). Notable papers include "A generalized production frontier approach for estimating determinants of inefficiency in US dairy farms" (1991), "Production frontiers, panel data, and time-varying technical inefficiency" (1990), and "Technical efficiency in competing panel data models: a study of Norwegian grain farming" (2014). His scholarship has amassed over 33,000 citations on Google Scholar. Awards and honors include Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics (1998), honorary Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Gothenburg (1997), Fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement (2023), Distinguished Author of the Journal of Applied Econometrics (2017), and listing among the top 2% of global researchers by Stanford University. He serves as Editor of Empirical Economics, Associate Editor of the Journal of Productivity Analysis, and has co-edited numerous special issues and books. Kumbhakar has contributed to PhD evaluation committees at universities in Australia, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Finland, and India.