productivity growth. The present study is aimed to verify how cost saving can be regarded as one of the most important competitive …

systems in Italy. The analysis is carried out by comparing the productive performance (average costs and productivity) of … productivity in explaining the observed cost differences between companies. The findings also show that inefficiency varies with …

firms in the last decade. The results show an interesting growth in the productivity levels in the four years preceding the …

, differently than other countries, Italy specializes in sectors with stagnating productivity and little drive to globalization. …

This paper aims at analyzing trends in TFP and labour productivity growth. Data Envelopment Analysis is used to … estimate a technological frontier and to compare all nations to it. The estimation of Malmquist productivity index as TFP … indicators allows to decompose labour productivity growth in efficiency change, technical progress and capital accumulation. This …

. The main results are: the best economic performance (and higher productivity) has been achieved by USA, followed by Europe …