We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 … productivity indicator that is decomposed into the usual constituents of productivity growth: technological change and efficiency …, using an innovative approach by employing the directional distance function and the Luenberger productivity indicator. The …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

while there was an increase in the productivity of factor inputs during the 1990s, most of the growth in value added is … explained by growth in the use of factor inputs. We also find that median technical efficiency declined in all but one of the … industries between the two years, and change in technical efficiency explains a very small proportion in the change in gross …

labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … well. By implication, policies that stimulate investment and R&D and policies that affect the size of the labor force may … productivity. …

with the size of production units. These distortions lead to sharp reductions in plant productivity and the fraction of … cycle of managers. We calibrate this model to U.S plant-size data to quantify the effects of distortions that are correlated … quite well for properties of Japanese size-distribution data, with a model-implied TFP of about 83% of the U.S. Distortions …

that the frequency of episodes of zero net employment changes is inversely related to plant size. We develop and estimate a … econometric evidence supports the existence of purely fixed components, unrelated to plant size. As a result, the range of …

consistent with the view that market size limits the degree of specialization at the plant level in the Spanish manufacturing …

and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the … host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward linkages have a consistently positive effect on productivity of …

. We conclude that the household efficiency does yield empirically falsifiable restrictions despite being scarcely rejected …