The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of the deregulation of the Swedish banking industry in the mid-1980s, and the consequent banking crisis, on productive efficiency and productivity growth in the industry. An unbalanced panel of Swedish banks is studied over the period, 1984 to...

This paper considers an econometric approach to measure total factor productivity (TFP) growth and technical change (TC) for 31 publicly owned passenger-bus companies in India during 1983-1987. A translog variable cost function is used to represent the production technology. Firm heterogeneity...