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Analyzing a novel dataset we find significantly positive effects of basic, and applied and experimental knowledge … stocks on domestic output and productivity for a panel of 10 OECD countries. This letter updates the work of, among others …
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This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China and a sample of city commercial, banks for … the eleven years to 2007. Estimates of total factor productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence … alternative sets of outputs. The productivity growth of the state-owned commercial banks (SOCBs) is compared with the joint …
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This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China over the ten years to 2006. Using a … bootstrap method for the Malmquist index estimates of productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence intervals … for the robustness of the results by examining alternative sets of outputs. The productivity growth of the state …
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shifts to the capability of the seller to acquire the knowledge and her reliability in disclosing it. These three together …
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In this paper we examine the significance of labour productivity and use of inputs in explaining technical efficiency … of rice production in Bangladesh. We find that higher labour productivity can stimulate high efficiency gains, but … seeds and fertilizers contributes to the rate of labour-productivity induced marginal efficiency gain, any additional labour …
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In this paper we examine the role of the interaction between labour productivity and the use of factors in explaining …-neutral effects of factors assist big time in explaining the recent decline in wheat production. A higher level of labour productivity …
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We estimate an institutional production function to capture incentive induced growth in total factor productivity (TFP …
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. Productivity relationships are heterogonous across countries depending on their accumulated stocks of knowledge and human capital. …We examine the robustness of R&D and productivity relationship in a panel of 16 OECD countries. We control for fifteen … productivity determinants predicted by different theoretical models. Following the advances in non-stationary panel data …
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only a slight upward trend in the productivity of the human capital sector, combined with ascending degrees of human …
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According to a frequently cited finding by Berger et al (1993), X-inefficiency contributes 20% to cost-inefficiency in western banks. Empirical studies of Chinese banks tend to place cost-inefficiency in the region of 50%. Such estimates would suggest that Chinese banks suffer from gross cost...
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