by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal … firms. From a policy perspective, the results of this study suggest that - if the aim is to leverage firms' productivity … other hand, corporate R&D in the low-tech sector is found to have a minor effect in explaining productivity. Instead …

This paper analyzes productivity with a directional distance function model by investigating convexity and non …-convexity in the Chinese banking sector. Two primary findings are summarized. First, there is a distinct change in productivity … experience local versus global technological change is small, indicating that productivity changes are driven by national rather …

describe and analyze the principal methodologies that have been developed for measuring efficiency and productivity, defining … efficiency and productivity measurement in insurance …

-socialist transition using financial data very little is known about how the apparent productivity gains were achieved. This paper follows … sources and limits of productivity growth. The data suggests that the factory was not far from the competitive optimum given …

companies in the medium and long term. The methodology used consists of calculating different profitability and productivity … at significantly low productivity levels and in conditions of technical inefficiency, due to both the inability of the …

To insure a proper and meaningful productivity assessment of DMUs with different production technologies, this article … develops a difference-based profit metafrontier Luenberger productivity indicator. Adopting the proposed model, we empirically … measure the profit inefficiency and examine the profit productivity convergence for samples banks consisting of 31 Taiwanese …