privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to grow for most firms beyond 1997 while remaining … constant in the Czech Republic. Domestic firms closer to the frontier are not more likely to catch up than firms further from …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all parts of the distribution) from 1992-1994 to 1995-1997 and did not … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …

-Germany, using variation across labor market regions and across time. The results of a stochastic frontier analysis shed new light on …

We evaluate the determinants of matching efficiency changes through a stochastic Cobb-Douglas production frontier model …

31 provinces of China from 2002 to 2007. For the econometric approach, a stochastic frontier production function is …

By applying a stochastic production frontier approach to the matching process of unemployed and vacancies, this paper …

after separability being imposed. The empirical findings of the exact approach to aggregation are found to be rather …