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The Anglo-German Productivity Puzzle, 1895-1935: A Restatement and a Possible Resolution

Ritschl, Albrecht - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

Recent research on international productivity comparisons has focused on the discrepancies between benchmark … comparisons and time series extrapolations from other benchmarks. For a 1907 benchmark, Stephen Broadberry and Carsten Burhop … benchmark is consistent with their 1907 benchmark, provided that a traditional but disputed industrial production series of …

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Efficiency among Private Railway Companies in a weakly Regulated System: The Case of Britain’s Railways in 1893-1912

Mulatu, Abay; Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

This paper uses a stochastic cost frontier model to investigate the efficiency of Britain’s private railways during the period 1893-1912. We find that there was substantial inefficiency in the industry with no sign of reduction over time. Our main conclusion is that principal agent problems...

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Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences

Caselli, Francesco - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

Why are some countries so much richer than others? Development Accounting is a first-passattempt at organizing the answer around two proximate determinants: factors of productionand efficiency. It answers the question “how much of the cross-country income variance canbe attributed to...

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