Efficiency and productivity of the cement industry: Pakistani experience of deregulation and privatisation

Neoclassical economic theory predicts that agents or decision makers who perform below their ability won't survive in competitive markets. However, in reality many other factors, such as imperfect information and regulation, can cause inefficiency and damage productivity. Using state of the art techniques we investigate the driving forces of productivity across various sectors as well as related inefficiencies and other frictions and aim to provide policy recommendations driven by strong theoretical and empirical evidence.

Collaborations and partnerships

Our academic partners include the Brunel University, University of Milan, National University of Singapore, KAPSARC, Queensland University of Technology, University of Montreal, Technical University of Dresden, and University of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weidenand.

Current projects

Analysing sectoral productivity in the UK to identify reasons for high and low productivity
Measuring country’s energy and environmental inefficiency
Productivity effects of collaboration and specialization in research and innovation
Skilled-labour migration, gender and peer effects on productivity in STEM research

Recent publication highlights

Önder, A.S., Schweitzer, S. and Yilmazkuday, H. (2021). Journal of Informetrics, 15(4), p.101222.
Ghulam, Y. (2021). Technological Forecasting and Social Change, volume 171.
Conley, J. P., Crucini, M., Driskill, R., & Onder, A. (2020). In S. Galiani, & U. Panizza (Eds.), Publishing and Measuring Success in Economics. CEPR Press. Pages. 67-72.
Filippini, M., & Hunt, L. C. (2015). Energy Economics, volume 52, pages S5-S16
Onder, A., Chan, H., Lariviere, V., Moy, N., Schilling, D., & Torgler, B. (2022).
A.Onder and F.Kunuroglu (2022) Migration Letters, 19(3): 253-260
Oleg Badunenko, Marzio Galeotti, & Lester C. Hunt (2021).