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 …

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. …

measure sub-sector productivity growth in agriculture. However, recent developments have enabled us to estimate total factor … productivity (TFP) growth for crops and livestock accounting for input-output allocation. This paper extends previous work on TFP … measurement for livestock into ruminants and non-ruminant productivity measurement, given the differences in productivity growth …

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

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 …

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 … the productivity, efficiency change and technical change indices. The model included three inputs (labor, land and …