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2011

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

2009

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.

2008

Aidt, Toke; Dutta, Jayasri and Sena, Vania (2008). Governance regimes, corruption and growth: theory and evidence. Journal of Comparative Economics, 36 (2), pp. 195-220.

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.

2007

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.

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.

2006

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

2004

Sena, Vania (2004). Total factor productivity and the spillover hypothesis: some new evidence. International Journal of Production Economics, 92 (1), pp. 31-42.

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.

2003

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

2001

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.

1999

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

Sena, Vania and Dismuke, Clara E. (1999). 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.