The paper measures and decomposes Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in Greek manufacturing for the period 1975-96 using the non parametric Malmquist productivity change index. The average rate of TFP growth for the sector as a whole was 1.8 percent per annum, although considerable...

The objective of this paper is the empirical determination of the shape of the Engel curves in Greece. To this end, we use micro-level data from the 1993/94 Family Budget Survey, the nonparametric Nadaraya-Watson estimator, and specification tests which are consistent in the direction of general...