Caves, Christensen, Diewert introduced Malmquist output, input and productivity indexes into production theory in a …

Caves, Christensen, Diewert introduced Malmquist output, input and productivity indexes into production theory in a …

productivity performance of nonmarket production units that is similar to the methodology suggested in the Atkinson report. …Profitability at a period of time is defined as the value of outputs produced by a production unit divided by the … periods into various explanatory factors. The explanatory factors are: the change in the production unit’s cost efficiency …

difference methodology in order to decompose the growth of a new measure of labour productivity into additive explanatory factors …. This new measure of labour productivity takes into account changes in the terms of trade. We apply our methodology to …

these nonmarket outputs at their costs of production but it does not give much guidance on exactly how to do this. In this … paper, an explicit methodology is developed that enables one to construct these marginal cost prices. However, in the main …, no substitution production functions for the specific activities in the nonmarket sector are assumed. It is shown that it …

Productivity growth rates. The paper notes that the production accounts in the present System of National Accounts (SNA) need to be …