European business services has witnessed about two decades of virtual productivity stagnation. The paper investigates … indicator for the effectiveness of market selection. We use a DEA method to construct the productivity frontier by sub … lack of import penetration. The results suggest that policy reform and more market openness will have positive productivity …

individual banks, the efficiency and productivity of the overall industry declined after regulation. We also find that … productivity had positive growth before regulation mainly due to improvements in pure technology, and that government ownership had … government regulation on the performance of the Iranian banking industry over the period 2003-2008. An alternative decomposition …

Measuring the productivity of highway concessionaires is very relevant, especially when a price cap regulation is … applied where tariff increases are based on expected improvements of productivity. Output may be measured in terms of traffic … productivity we consider only operating costs, as amortization and financial costs depend upon the original highway design and …

The paper investigates whether scale effects, market structure, and regulation determine the poor productivity … business services' productivity performance. In particular regulation-caused exit and labour reallocation costs have … performance of the European business services industry. We apply parametric and nonparametric methods to estimate the productivity …

seemed to solve stagflation but only repressed it and resulted into the crisis since 2007. The return of regulation also … causes the return of stagflation: what was repressed before now is into the open again. Re-regulation is required indeed but …

, and price competition, as well as the regulation of intellectual property rights, are the major tools by which Government …

on productivity growth, and additionally export behavior has to be persistent over time. Both conditions are empirically …

India’s series of economic reforms since 1991 have accelerated economic growth but not productivity. India …’s productivity remained low compared to global but peers as well. High productivity is good for business, consumers and economy …. Higher the productivity, higher the profit, lower the price. Productivity in manufacturing sector in the last two decades …

In this paper we study the efficiency and total factor productivity growth of Italian regions by implementing a … decomposition of productivity growth, conducted by means of Malmquist’s index, highlighted that also in Southern regions, in which …