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 …

approaches now commonly used in efficiency and productivity analysis: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) where convexity is imposed …

average adoption effect on participants by testing for productivity difference between adopters and non-adopters. Secondly, we … the yield differences, which in both cases are substantial. There is some evidence for greater productivity of the smaller …

We study the effects of informal labor sharing arrangements and other social interactions on farmers' productivity in a … developing country context, testing whether these types of social and work interactions lead to productivity gains through … grains production and find large productivity gains (approximately 20 percent) from labor sharing due to synergy effects that …

efficiency. The changes in efficiency and productivity growth arising from the change in management regime have been the subject … influence productivity once those decisions are made using a multiproduct revenue function. The estimation procedure is based on … distribution nature of the data. Our productivity growth estimates are consistent with increasing productivity growth since …

This paper examines the effects of price uncertainty on agricultural productivity. Appelbaum(1991) provided an …: risk, uncertainty, productivity …

data spread over 1936-94 time period. Results indicate the influence of both R&D and prices on productivity. …