A central theme of international trade research has been the impact of trade liberalization on productivity. Early … this adjustment enhances productivity. A traditional comparative advantage or monopolistic competition model examines … framework expand the debate to include organizational adjustment across firms. The productivity improvement in the heterogeneous …

We analyze the evolution of Sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) over the past 45 years …

This paper studies the impact of agglomeration and selection on firms' total factor productivity (TFP) distributions … productivity that lags compared to those located in large cities and they benefit mainly from localization externalities. …

Changes and trends in farm productivity have been of intense interest to many involved with agriculture. This study … used data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate the output-oriented Malmquist total factor productivity (TFP) index from … panel data for 1993-2006 for farms in Southern Minnesota. Bootstrap methods were used to estimate confidence intervals for …

Studies of total factor productivity in livestock production are rare, but when available provide useful information … agricultural economy. We estimate total factor productivity (TFP) for four major livestock products in China employing the … stochastic frontier approach, and decompose productivity growth into its technical efficiency and technical progress components …

The paper presents a comparative analysis of the productivity of corporate and individual farms in Ukraine based … primarily on cross-section data from a farm survey conducted by FAO in 2005. We calculate partial land and labor productivity …, total factor productivity, and technical efficiency scores (using Stochastic Frontier Analysis) for farms of different …