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Debreu's Coefficient of Resource Utilization, the Solow Residual and TPF : The Connection by Leontief Preferences

ten Raa, Thijs - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

decomposition of productivity growth into technical change and efficiency change.The terms can now be broken down by sector as well …

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The Theory of Benchmarking and the Measurement of Industrial Organization

ten Raa, Thijs - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

efficiency change.In other words, the two well-known sources of productivity growth-technology and efficiency-can be augmented by … a third one, namely the industrial organization effect.In this paper the efficiency of an industrial organization and … its contribution to performance are measured by benchmarking all firms on the industry.More precisely, efficiency is …

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In Government We Trust : The Role of Fiscal Decentralization

Ligthart, J.E.; van Oudheusden, P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

We measure the contribution of fiscal decentralization to trust in government. Using repeated cross-country survey data of individuals on several measures of trust in govern- ment over the 1994-2007 period, we estimate an ordered response model of the government trust and fiscal decentralization...

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On the Use of Panel Data in Bayesian Stochastic Frontier Models

Fernández, C.; Osiewalski, J.; Steel, M.F.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1996

We consider a Bayesian analysis of the stochastic frontier model with composed error.Under a commonly used class of (partly) noninformative prior distributions, the existence of the posterior distribution and of posterior moments is examined.Viewing this model as a Normal linear regression model...

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Does Good Corporate Governance Lead to Stronger Productivity Growth?

Renneboog, Luc; Koeke, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2002

This study investigates the impact of corporate governance and product market competition on total factor productivity growth in Germany and the UK.For Germany, the prototype of a bank-based governance system, productivity grows faster in firms controlled by financial institutions (in...

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Privatization, public investment and capital income taxation

Huizinga, Harry P.; Nielsen, S.B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1997

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Structural Reforms and Growth : Product and Labor Market Deregulations

Eijffinger, Sylvester; Rossi, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

The paper focuses on labor and product market deregulations, as fundamental elements in the passage from an investment to an innovation-based economy.The approach undertaken is prominently empirical.After a very brief description of the regulatory levels on the two sides of the Atlantic, we take...

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Do Corporate Control and Product Market Competition Lead to Stronger Productivity Growth? Evidence from Market-Oriented and Blockholder-Based Governance Regimes

Renneboog, Luc; Koke, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

This study investigates the impact of corporate governance and product market competition on total factor productivity growth for two large samples of German and UK firms. In poorly performing UK firms, the presence of strong outside blockholders lead to substantial increases in productivity....

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Techniques Choice, Misallocation and Total Factor Productivity

Uras, Burak R.; Wang, P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2014

inputs in an efficient manner. We establish a positive relationship between production flexibility and cost efficiency. By …

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Inequality, Environmental Protection and Growth

Marsiliani, L.; Renstrom, T.I. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000

Why do Scandinavian countries perform better in terms of environmental protection than other European Union countries? In this paper, we explore the hypothesis that societies characterised by low income inequality (such as the nordic European countries) generate political-economic equilibria...

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