Rate My Professor Subal Kumbhakar

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.