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SIXTH EUROPEAN WORKSHOP
ON
EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS
Copenhagen, Denmark, October 29-31, 1999
First Announcement and Call for Abstracts


The Sixth European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
will, as the fifth, be organized by Peter Bogetoft and Mette Asmild
and take place in Copenhagen, Denmark. The European workshops are
intended to alternate, annually, with the North American Georgia
Productivity Workshops organized by Professor C.A.Knox Lovell. Also,
it is planned that subsequent European workshops should alternate
between different European countries.

The workshop will share many of the features that have proved
effective in the previous workshops, including invited as well as
contributed papers, sessions with and without discussants, sessions
emphasizing new theoretical themes, and sessions reporting on novel
practical applications. Theoretical and empirical contributions to
the analysis of production, productive efficiency and productivity
growth are solicited, and contributions from economics, management
science / OR and related fields are welcomed.

Those wishing to present a paper at the workshop are invited to
submit an abstract as soon as possible and no later than May 15,
1999, to the workshop coordinators:  Peter Bogetoft and Mette
Asmild, Department of Economics, Royal Agricultural University
(KVL), Rolighedvej 23, Frederiksberg C, Copenhagen, Denmark, Phone:
(+45) 35282265, Fax: (+45) 35282295, E-mail: [log in to unmask] The
selection process is scheduled to take place in June, 1999.

Those wishing to participate without a presentation are encouraged
to indicate their interest as soon as possible as well. Due to size
limitations, it may be necessary to restrict the number of
participants!

A registration form, the final program, and information on travel
and lodging will be distributed  July, 1999, to anyone submitting an
abstract or requesting this information.

A small registration fee will be required to cover (part of) the
cost of meals and receptions and the preparation of workshop
material.  An effort will be made to provide some (limited)
financial support to ph.d. students and other young academics.
Please contact the organizers for further information. Lodging will
be organized at hotels in central Copenhagen and close to the campus
of The Royal Agricultural University.

Additional information can soon be obtained from the workshop
coordinators or from the workshop homepage at
http://www.flec.kvl.dk/6EWEPA


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