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Sena, Vania (2011). Technical efficiency and human capital in the retail sector. Service Industries Journal, 31 (16), pp. 2661-2676.

Bottone, Germana and Sena, Vania (2011). Human capital:theoretical and empirical insights. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 70 (2), pp. 401-423.

Destefanis, Sergio and Sena, Vania (2009). Public capital, productivity and trade balances:some evidence for the Italian regions. Empirical Economics, 37 (3), pp. 533-554.

Fethi, M; Jackson, P and Sena, Vania (2009). UKEPAN: an introduction. International Journal of Performance Measurement ,

Maietta, Ornella W. and Sena, Vania (2008). Is competition really bad news for cooperatives? Some empirical evidence for Italian producers' cooperatives. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 29 (3), pp. 221-233.

Destefanis, Sergio and Sena, Vania (2007). Patterns of corporate governance and technical efficiency in Italian manufacturing. Managerial and Decision Economics, 28 (1), pp. 27-40.

Sena, Vania (2006). The determinants of firms' performance:can finance constraints improve technical efficiency? European Journal of Operational Research, 172 (1), pp. 311-325.

Aidt, Toke S. and Sena, Vania (2005). Unions:rent creators or extractors? Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 107 (1), pp. 103-121.

Sena, Vania (2004). The return of the Prince of Denmark: a survey on recent developments in the economics of innovation. Economic Journal, 114 (496), pp. 312-332.

Sena, Vania (2003). The frontier approach to the measurement of productivity and technical efficiency. Economic Issues, 8 (2), pp. 71-97.

Dismuke, Clara E. and Sena, Vania (2001). Is there a trade-off between quality and productivity? The case of diagnostic technologies in Portugal. Annals of Operations Research, 107 (1-4), pp. 101-116.

Sena, Vania (2001). The Generalized Malmquist index and capacity utilization change: an application to the Italian manufacturing, 1989-1994. Applied Economics, 33 (1), pp. 1-9.

Sena, Vania (1999). Stochastic frontiers estimation: a review of the software options. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 14 (5), pp. 579-586.

Aidt, Toke; Dutta, Jayasri and Sena, Vania Governance regimes, corruption and growth: theory and evidence. Journal of Comparative Economics, 36 (2), pp. 195-220.

Destefanis, Sergio and Sena, Vania Public capital and total factor productivity:new evidence from the Italian regions, 1970-98. Regional studies, 39 (5), pp. 603-617.

Maietta, Ornella Wanda and Sena, Vania Financial constraints and technical efficiency:some empirical evidence for Italian producers' cooperatives. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 81 (1), pp. 21-38.

Sena, Vania Total factor productivity and the spillover hypothesis: some new evidence. International Journal of Production Economics, 92 (1), pp. 31-42.

Sena, Vania and Dismuke, Clara E. Has DRG payment influenced the technical efficiency and productivity of diagnostic technologies in Portuguese public hospitals? An empirical analysis using parametric and non‐parametric methods. Health Care Management Science, 2 (2), pp. 107-116.

Sena, Vania; Scott, Jonathan and Roper, Stephen Gender, borrowing patterns and self-employment:some evidence for England. Small Business Economics, 38 (4), pp. 467-480.

Book Section

Sena, Vania (2008). Large shareholders and the performance of firms. The case of Italian manufacturing. IN: Corporate Governance: Issues and Challenges. Columbus, F (ed.) New York: Nova science.

Maietta, Ornella W. and Sena, Vania (2007). Organizational capital, product market competition and technical efficiency in Italian cooperatives. IN: Advances in the Cooperative firms in global markets: incidence, viability and economic performance. Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-managed Firms . Oxford (UK): JAI Press.

Destefanis, S and Sena, V (2004). Structural funds, infrastructure and productivity: A regional analysis. IN: Regions, Europe and the Labour Market Recent problems and developments. Caroleo, F E (ed.) Springer.

Maietta, Ornella W. and Sena, Vania (2004). Profit sharing, technical efficiency change and finance constraints. IN: Employee participation, firm performance and survival. Perotin, Virginie and Robinson, Andrew (eds) Advances in the economic analysis of Pparticipatory & labor-managed firms . Emerald.

Conference or Workshop Item

Maietta, O and Sena, V (2007). Forme proprietary, vincoli finanziari ed efficienza tecnica:un analisi sui dati di imprese italiane attraverso la DEA. IN: Metodi, Modelli e Tecnologie dell'Informazione a Supporto delle Decisioni. 2007-01-01 - 2007-01-01.

Book

Sena, Vania (2007). Credit and collateral. Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking . Routledge.