The innovation, efficiency and productivity responses to the stronger protection of intellectual property rights post … increase is found in the annual rates of technical change, efficiency change, and productivity growth – about 3, 8 and 0 …

productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 …This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …

z-score), then apply the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to obtain the risk-return efficiency score for each bank …, and finally conduct ordered logit regressions of bank ratings on estimated risks, risk-return efficiency, and the inverse …This paper investigates whether there is any consistency between banks’ financial strength ratings (bank rating) and …

all, it compares the technical efficiency of foreign affiliates of multinational enterprises (FAs) against the domestic … determinants of technical efficiency between FAs and DFs. Finally, it examines the presence (or absence) of efficiency spillovers … these issues, the firm- and year-specific technical efficiency is computed by estimating a stochastic frontier production …

regarding the expansion of the by examining technical efficiency (TE) of individual leather producing firms for some selected …

, Malaysia, Lebanon and India aims to understand the complex overlapping relationships that exist between cultural and socio …

Malaysia and Australia hope to conclude free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations by 2009, said International Trade and …