Gary D. Ferrier

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University Professor

University of Arkansas

Also affiliated: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (2025); United States International Trade Commission (1995); Southern Methodist University (1990–1993); Université de Lille (2025); Lille Économie Management (2025)

26 h-index 80 pubs 5,307 cited

Research Areas

Biomedical Subjects

Links

ORCID Lab Website

OverviewAI-generated summary

Gary D. Ferrier's research has primarily focused on the application of quantitative methods to analyze efficiency and cost structures within various economic sectors, with a notable emphasis on healthcare and financial institutions. His work has explored theoretical and statistical models to assess performance, including the development and application of frontier efficiency methods like Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontiers. Ferrier has investigated factors influencing hospital performance, particularly in rural settings, and has studied the economics of diversification in the banking industry.

His publications include research on the global optimization of statistical functions using simulated annealing and the measurement of cost efficiency in banking. Ferrier has also examined consistency conditions for regulatory analysis of financial institutions and the informativeness of different efficiency scores for bank holding company performance. More recently, his work has addressed the analysis of uncompensated hospital care using DEA models.

With an h-index of 27 and over 5,300 citations across 86 publications, Ferrier is recognized as a highly cited researcher. He maintains an active lab website and has been recently active in research.

Metrics

h-index: 26
Publications: 80
Citations: 5,307

Positions

University Professor 1993–present

University of Arkansas Fayetteville Economics ORCID

Selected Publications

Data Envelopment Analysis Models for Identifying Bottlenecks in Hospital Operations Through Partial Productivity Measures (2025)

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Measuring potential profit gains using a multi-stage production technology: evidence from the Chinese banking industry (2024)

Applied Economics 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Housing market capitalization of environmental risk: evidence from the Tianjin explosion (2022)

Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Estimating technology characteristics of the U.S. hospital industry using directional distance functions with optimal directions (2022)

Omega 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
Agricultural productivity evolution in China: A generalized decomposition of the Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator (2019)

China Economic Review 59 citations DOI OpenAlex
Direction selection in stochastic directional distance functions (2019)

European Journal of Operational Research 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
An expanded decomposition of the Luenberger productivity indicator with an application to the Chinese healthcare sector (2018)

Omega 33 citations DOI OpenAlex
A directional distance function approach for identifying the input/output status of medical residents (2017)

Applied Economics 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
An Expanded Decomposition of the Luenberger Productivity Indicator with an Application to the Chinese Healthcare Sector (2017)

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics 1 citation OpenAlex
Technology Diffusion on the International Trade Network (2016)

Journal of Public Economic Theory 52 citations DOI OpenAlex
Measuring the performance of hierarchical organizations: an application to bank efficiency at the regional and branch levels (2014)

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics 1 citation OpenAlex
Technology Diffusion on the International Trade Network (2014)

SSRN Electronic Journal 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Memoriam to Professor Ralph William “Bill” Pfouts (2014)

Atlantic Economic Journal DOI OpenAlex
Improving the "usefulness" of stochastic frontier analysis for health care (2014)

Economics and Business Letters 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
The Effect of Distance on Community Bank Performance Following Acquisitions and Consolidations (2013)

2 citations OpenAlex