Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to … efficiency change and technical change. The data we use is from Sweden and for their pulp and paper industry, which is heavily …

effect on the adopters' employment and on the value-added and average wage, whereas sales and productivity increase after an …

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … improving production efficiency and product quality in both countries, but it matters more in China than in the US, especially … causal effects on product quality, production efficiency, and exports. Poor management practices may thus hinder trade and …

estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from …. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …

The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in …, using estimation techniques that correct for measurement error. We develop tools to cope with heteroskedasticity in such …

This study applies parametric distance functions to estimate the efficiency of foreign banks in Australia, and … subsequently employs extreme bounds analysis to establish the determinants of foreign bank efficiency that are robust to model … efficiency of the profit-creation process. The market share of the incumbent banks acts as a barrier to entry to efficiency in …

determinants of cross-country differences in the persistence of productivity differentials Specifically, we focus on the effects of … convergence rates. Consistent with theories, the persistence of productivity differentials is found to be positively correlated …, productivity convergence appears to be enhanced by human capital but deterred by government spending. …

productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …