the role of inputs from "Science" (firm-level publications' stock) on firms' labour productivity, showing that the effect …

using more of the energy input in production. A dynamic panel model is specified and applied to 25 Korean industrial sectors …

We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 …, using an innovative approach by employing the directional distance function and the Luenberger productivity indicator. The … productivity indicator that is decomposed into the usual constituents of productivity growth: technological change and efficiency …

in large hospitals and 11.3% in small hospitals, when including complexity indicators. Second, diseconomies of scale … exist in very large hospitals, whereas scale economies appear in very small hospitals. Third, scope effects are found in …

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, it compares the performance of various panel data models in estimating … technical efficiency in production. Second, it applies various stochastic frontier panel data models to estimate the technical …

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a …) lose scale advantages, by moving to smaller stores and (b) lose scope advantages if existing organisational knowledge …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

We investigate the impact of sickness absenteeism on productivity by using rich longitudinal matched employer … fixed effects. Our main finding is that, in general, sickness absenteeism substantially dampens firm productivity. An … increase of 1 percentage point in the rate of sickness absenteeism entails a productivity loss of 0.24%. Yet, we find that the …