, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique … as pivotal input in order to control for their particular contribution to firm-level efficiency. Conceptually, the study … results of this study suggest that – if the aim is to leverage companies' productivity – emphasis should be put on supporting …

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 …

In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the … examples. We find that the reliability of efficiency scores critically hinges upon the ratio of the variation in efficiency to …

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 …

there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …