Badunenko, Oleg; Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper investigates the factors that explain the level of technical efficiency of a firm. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 35,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2004. We estimate the technical efficiency of the...