Mircea EPURE

Professor of Cost Analysis
Affiliated Faculty

Higher Education

Ph.D. Dissertation (expected spring 2010): “Strategic Groups, Benchmarking and Mergers in the Spanish Banking Sector: A Total Factor Productivity Analysis” supervised by Diego Prior (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and Kristiaan Kerstens (IESEG Lille)

2004 – Present: Ph.D. Candidate, Business Economics Department, Autonomous University of Barcelona (European Doctoral Programme in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain and Växjö University, Sweden)

February 2007: Research Proficiency (DEA) within the area of Business Organisation (Business Economics Department, Autonomous University of Barcelona).

January 2007: Master of Research in Business Economics (Business Economics Department, Autonomous University of Barcelona). Research work: “An Analysis of Strategic Paths through the Decomposition of Total Factor Productivity: The Case of Savings Banks”.

August 2004: Bachelor's Degree (Faculty of Management, The Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania). Dissertation: "Cost Reduction Methods Applied to Textile SMEs".

Academic activities

2008 – Present: Adjunct lecturer at the Department of Economics and Business, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona: Business Economics, Organizational Economics and Markets

2009 – Present: Adjunct lecturer at the ESEC Toulouse Barcelona Business School: Cost Analysis

2007 – 2009: Teaching assistant at the Business Economics Department, Autonomous University of Barcelona: Cost Analysis

Teaching areas

Business Economics

Organizational Economics and Market

Management Control

Professional experience

Research activities

Work in progress (selection):

“Bank Productivity and Strategic Groups: A Decomposition Approach Based upon the Luenberger Productivity Indicator” Jointly with K. Kerstens (IESEG Lille) and D. Prior (UAB) - in 3rd minor revision, 1st quartile JCR

“Evaluating the Efficiency of University Support Units of Spin-off Creation” Jointly with D. Prior (UAB) and C. Serarols (UAB)

“Technology-Based Total Factor Productivity and Benchmarking: New Proposals and an Illustration” Jointly with K. Kerstens (IESEG Lille) and D. Prior (UAB)

“Mergers’ Effects in Banking: Revealing Efficiency Gains using Non-Convex Technologies” Jointly with K. Kerstens (IESEG Lille) and D. Prior (UAB)

“Predicting Outcomes of Soccer Knock-Out Ties: Evidence from the UEFA Cup Competition” Jointly with K. Desender (UAB)

Refereeing for Academic Journals

Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2009
Decision Support Systems, 2009
4OR, 2009
Journal of Applied Economics, 2010

Research interests

Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

Strategic Paths and Strategic Groups

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Business Economics

Main publications

“Interstanding the Industrial District: Contrasting Conceptual Images as a Road to Insight” (with B. Johannisson, L. Centeno Caffarena, A.F. Discua Cruz, E. Hormiga Pérez, M. Kapelko, K. Murdock, D. Nanka-Bruce, M. Olejárová, A. Sanchez Lopez, A. Sekki, M.C. Stoian, H. Tötterman, A. Bisignano), Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 19:6, 527-554, 2007.

“Strategic Path and Productivity in the Spanish Savings Banks” (with D. Prior) in Improving Business Reporting: New Rules, New Opportunities, New Trends. Milano: Giuffrè Editore, ISBN: 88-14-13580-0, Chapter 25, 661-689, 2007.

Caracterització, anàlisi i impacte de les empreses sorgides dels Trampolins Tecnològics Catalans, (with C. Serarols i Tarrés (editor), P. Migliorini, D. Urbano i Pulido, Y. Vaillant, J.M. Veciana i Vergés, D. Prior, F. Vendrell i Herrero, A. Bikfalvi), Barcelona: Col·lecció Informes de competitivitat d'ACC1Ó, ISBN: 9788439380320, 2009.