7:30am - 9:00am

Registration for workshop

9:00am - 5:30pm

Workshop 1: Productivity Accounting: The Economics of Business PerformanceKnox Lovell (University of Queensland)Emili Grifell-Tatjé (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Workshop 2: Parametric Stochastic Frontier Models: Theory and ApplicationsSubal C. Kumbhakar (Binghamton University)Hung-Jen Wang (National Taiwan University)

Workshop 3: Topics in DEA Modeling and ApplicationRolf Färe (Oregon State University)Shawna Grosskopf (Oregon State University)

6:30pm - 8:30pm

Reception Dinner

7:30am - 8:50am

Registration

9:00am - 9:10am

Welcome Address

9:10am - 10:20am

Keynote Address

10:20am - 10:50am

Coffee Break

10:50am - 12:00

Robin Sickles (Rice University)

12:00 - 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm - 3:30pm

Parallel Sessions
Invited Sessions (Emili Grifell-Tatje; Tsu-tan Fu; Jiro Nemoto)

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Plenary Session (Rolf Färe; Chiang Kao)
Plenary Session (Finn Forsund; Shawna Grosskopf)

6:30pm - 9:00pm

Welcome Dinner

9:00am - 9:10am

Introduction to two Keynote speakers

9:10am - 10:20am

Keynote Address : Joe Zhu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

10:20am - 10:50am

Coffee Break

10:50am - 12:00

Keynote Address : William Greene(New York University)

12:00 - 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm - 3:30pm

Parallel Sessions
(Hung-Jen Wang; Cliff Huang; Jeong-Dong Lee )
(Kristiaan Kerstens; Suthathip Yaisawarng; Mei-Ying Huang)

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Plenary Session (Christopher O`Donnell; Knox Lovell)
Plenary Session (Victor Podinovski; Subal Kumbhakar)

6:30pm - 9:00pm

Gala Dinner

9:00am - 10:30am

Parallel Sessions
Invited Session

10:30am - 11:00am

Coffee Break

11:00am - 12:00

Round table discussion (Chair by Lovell)

12:00 - 12:15 pm

Closing Ceremony Remark
Announcement of 2018 APPC Site

12:15 - 1:45pm

Lunch

2:00pm - 6:00pm

City Tour

6:30pm -8:30

Farewell Dinner