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infers that, all nations, irrespective their level of development, should evaluate Productivity/Management Decisions with …
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The Law of One Price (LoOP) states that all firms face the same prices for their inputs and outputs in the competitive market equilibrium. This law has powerful implications for productive efficiency analysis, which have remained unexploited thus far. This paper shows how LoOP-based weight...
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We discuss the nonparametric approach to profit efficiency analysis at the firm and industry levels in the absence of complete price information, and propose two new insights. First, choosing one commodity (whose price is known) as a numeraire good enables us to measure profit inefficiency in...
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Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a linear programming based method for evaluating performance of comparable production units such as firms. Although the method is already extensively applied in many areas of economics, its use in environmental economics and related fields remains limited. The...
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resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to ….S. reservation economies to assess how the two aspects affect income. The results show that resources and resource productivity are …
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the accumulation of physical capital and exogenously-given labor. However, resources and resource productivity are …
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This paper decomposes the large regression residuals of income across 84 U.S. Native American economies (USNAEs) into Solow and Solow-like parts. Decomposition is accomplished algebraically. The calculations find a weak to negative correlation between income and Solow residuals, and a strong...
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We describe the relation between welfare growth and productivity growth. We argue that differences in productivity and … countries. Although, at the global level, productivity growth and welfare growth are two sides of the same coin, at the national … level they are not. The welfare effects of productivity growth in part leak away to consumers in other countries because …
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with different match qualities. No search effort by the agent is needed to receive offers. Individual productivity declines … agent. A further complication is due to the unobservability of an agent’s productivity. I find that under an optimal …, agents whose productivity is relatively high tend to have a shorter unemployment duration and a higher productivity growth in …
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This work attempts to shed light on the “information technology productivity paradox”. Employing a large data set of … Italian manufacturing firms we compute ICT marginal productivity across different cluster of firms and the impact of …/introduction behaviour and firm’s technological investment aptitude have any role in explaining ICT productivity. We find that low capital …
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