2010

Walter Briec, Kristiaan Kerstens and Diego Prior
Tangency Capacity Notions Based upon the Profit and Cost Functions: A Non-Parametric Approach and a Comparison
Economic Modelling, 27(5), 2010.

Otilia Driga and Diego Prior
Start-up conditions and the performancd of women -and men- controlled businesses in manufacturing industries
Spanish Accounting Review, 13(1), 2010.

Albena Pergelova, Diego Prior and Josep Rialp
Assessing Advertising Efficiency: Does Internet Play a Role?
Journal of Advertising, 39(3), 2010.

M. Balaguer-Coll , Diego Prior and E, Tortosa-Ausina
Devolution dynamics of Spanish local government
Environment and Planning A, 2010, 42(6)

M. Balaguer-Coll , Diego Prior and E, Tortosa-Ausina
Decentralization and efficiency in local government
Annals of Regional Science, 45.

Diego Prior and Jordi Surroca
Performance Measurement and Achievable Targets for Public Hospitals
Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, 25 (4), 2010.

2011

Mircea Epure, Kristiaan Kerstens and Diego Prior
Technology-Based Total Factor Productivity and Benchmarking: New Proposals and an Application
Omega. The International Journal of Management Science, 39(6), 608-619.

Mircea Epure, Kristiaan Kerstens, Diego Prior
Bank Productivity and Performance Groups: A Decomposition Approach Based upon the Luenberger Productivity Indicator
European Journal of Operational Research, 211(3) 630-641.

2012

Bruno De Borger, Kristiaan Kerstens, Diego Prior and Ignace Van de Woestyne
Static Efficiency Decompositions and Capacity Utilisation: Integrating Economic and Technical Capacity Notions
Applied Economics, 44 (31), 4125-4141.

Claudio Thieme, Víctor Giménez and Diego Prior
A comparative analysis of the efficiency of national education systems
Asia Pacific Education Review, 13(1), 1-15.

G. Granderson and D. Prior
Environmental externalities and regulation constrained cost productivity growth in the US electric utility industry
Journal of Productivity Analysis, 39(3), 243-257.

Claudio Thieme, Diego Prior, Víctor Giménez and Emili Tortosa-Ausina
Desempeño de los centros educativos. ¿Un problema de recursos o de capacidades organizativas?
Hacienda Pública Española, 199(4), 81-118.

M.T. Balaguer-Coll, D. Prior and E. Tortosa-Ausina
Output complexity, environmental conditions, and the efficiency of municipalities
Journal of Productivity Analysis, 39(3), 303-324.

P. Martínez, D. Prior and J. Rialp
The Price of Stocks in Latin American Financial Markets: An Empirical Application of the Ohlson model
The International Journal of Business and Finance Research, 6(4), 73-85.

2013

C. Thieme, D. Prior and E. Tortosa-Ausina
A mutilevel decomposition of school performance using robust nonparametric frontier techniques
Economics of Education Review, 32, 104-121.

J.L. Zafra-Gómez, J.L., D. Prior, D., A.M. Plata-Diaz and A.M. López-Hernández, A.M.
Reducing costs in times of crisis: delivery forms in small and medium sized local governments’ waste management services
Public Administration, (91)1, 51-68.

Prior, D., Rialp-Criado, A., Rialp-Criado, J. and Urbano, D.
¿Son las nuevas empresas internacionales más eficientes que las domésticas en un período de crisis?
Información Comercial Española, 870, ene-feb.

Thieme, C., Prior, D., Tortosa-Ausina, E. and Gempp, R.
Value Added and Contextual Factors in Education: Evidence from Chilean Schools
Fundación BBVA

López-Torres, L. and Prior, D.
Do parents perceive the technical quality of public schools? An activity analysis approach
Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies, 13(3), 39-60.

Briec, W., Kerstens, K. and Prior, D.European Regional Expenditures and Tourism Activities: A Complementary Public and Private Sector Hicks-Moorsteen Synthetic Index Document de travail du LEM 2013-29

2014

Angulo-Ruiz, F., Donthu, N., Prior, D. and Rialp, J.
The financial contribution of customer-oriented marketing capability
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 42(4), 380-399.

 Keith, J. and Prior, D.
Scale and scope economies in Mexican private medical units 
Salud Pública de México, 56(4), 348-354.

Cecilio Mar-Molinero, Diego Prior, María-Manuela Segovia and Fabiola Portillo
On centralized resource utilization and its reallocation by using DEA
Annals of Operations Research, 221(1), 273-283.

 2015

Soledad Moya, Diego Prior and Gonzalo Rodríguerz-Pérez
Performance-based incentives and the Behavior of Accounting Academics: Responding to Changes
Accounting Education: An International Journal, 24(3), 298-332.

Graciela Vedovoto, Diego Prior
Opciones reales: una propuesta para valorar proyectos de I+D en centros públicos de investigación agraria
Contaduría y Administración, 60(1), 145-179.

 Laura López-Torres, Diego Prior
Should we charge environmental factors for poor students’ achievement?
Applied Economics Letters, 22 (17), 1378-1381.

Gemma Pérez-López, Diego Prior and José L. Zafra-Gómez
Rethinking New Public Management Delivery Forms and Efficiency: Long-Term Effects in Spanish Local Government
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 25(4), 1157-1183. 

2016

Epure, M. Prior; D. Serarols, Ch.
Assessing technology-based spin-offs from university support units
Regional Studies, 50(3), 411-428.

Jordi Surroca, Diego Prior and Josep A. Tribó Giné
Using panel data DEA to measure CEOs’ focus of attention: An application to the study of cognitive group membership and performance
Strategic Management Journal, 37(2), 370-388.

Meryem Duygun, Diego Prior, Mohamen Shaban and Emili Tortosa-Ausina
Disentangling the European airlines efficiency puzzle: A network data envelopment analysis approach
Omega. The International Journal of Management Science, 60, 2-14. 

Claudio Thieme, Diego Prior, Emili Tortosa-Ausina and René Gempp
Value added, educational accountability approaches and their effects on schools’ rankings: Evidence from Chile
European Journal of Operational Research, 253(2), 456-471. 

Abaghan Ghahraman and Diego Prior
A learning ladder toward efficiency: Proposing network-based stepwise benchmark selection
Omega. The International Journal of Management Science, 66, 83-93. 

J.M. Cordero, D. Prior and R. Simancas
A comparison of public and private schools in Spain using robust nonparametric frontier methods
Central European Journal of Operations Research, 24(3), 659-680.

Juan Máñez, Gemma Pérez-López, Diego Prior and José Luis Zafra-Gómez
Understanding the Dynamic Effect of Contracting Out on the Delivery of Local Public Services
Regional Studies, 50(12), 2069-2080.

Maria Teresa Balaguer-Coll, Diego Prior and Emili Tortosa-Ausina
On the determinants of local government debt: Does one size fit all?
International Public Management Journal, 19(4), 513-542.

Laura López-Torres and Diego Prior
Centralized allocation of human resources. an application to public schools
Computers & Operations Research, 73, 104-114. 

 Diego Prior, Emili Tortosa-Ausina, Mª. Pilar García-Alcober and Manuel Illueca
Cost, revenues and performance in Spanish banking: a comparative analysis of pre- and early crisis years
Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting, 45(3), 345-364.

Gemma Pérez-López, Diego Prior, José Luis Zafra-Gómez and Ana María Díaz-Plata
Cost efficiency in municipal solid waste service delivery. Alternative management forms in relation to local population size
European Journal of Operational Research, 255(2), 583-592.

2017

Victor Giménez, Claudio Thieme, Diego Prior and Emili Tortosa-Ausina
An international comparison of educational systems: a temporal analysis in presence of bad outputs
Journal of Productivity Analysis, 47(1), 83-101. 

 Laura López-Torres, Rosella Nicolini and Diego Prior
Does strategic interaction affect demand for schools places? A conditional efficiency approach
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 65, 89-103. 

2018

Gemma Pérez-López, Diego Prior and José L. Zafra-López
Temporal scale efficiency in DEA panel data estimations. An application to the solid waste disposal service in Spain
Omega. the International Journal of Management Science, 76, 18-27.

Fernando Angulo-Ruiz, Naveen Donthu, Diego Prior and Josep Rialp
How does marketing capability impact abnormal stock returns? The mediating role of growth
Journal of Business Research, 82, 19-30.

Víctor Giménez, Diego Prior and Emili Tortosa-Ausina
The impact of efficiency on the economic growth of emerging economiesd: Ther case of Colombia
Estudios de Política Económica, 36(86), 2018

Víctor Giménez, Claudio Thieme, Diego Prior and Emili Tortosa-Ausina
Comparing the Performance of National Educational Systems: Inequality vs Achievement? 
Social Indicators Research, forthcoming.

Víctor Giménez, William Prieto, Diego Prior and Emili Tortosa-Ausina
Evaluation of Efficieny in Colombian Hospitals: An analysis of the post-reform period
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 65, 2018

Walter Briec, Kristiaan Kerstens, Diego Prior and Ignace Van de Woestine
Testing general and special Färe-Primont indices: A proposal for public and private sector synthetic idices of European regional expenditures and tourism 
European Journal of Operational Research, 271 (2), 2018.

María-Teresa Balaguer-Coll, María-Isabel Brun-Marcos, Laura Márquez-Ramos and Diego Prior.
Local government efficiency: determinants of spatial interdependence 
Applied Economics, forthcoming.