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PRODUTIVIDADE TOTAL DOS FATORES NAS PRINCIPAIS LAVOURAS DE GRÃOS BRASILEIRAS: ANÁLISE DE FRONTEIRA ESTOCÁSTICA E ÍNDICE DE MALMQUIST
Rivera, Rivera; Bastiaan, Edward Bernard; Costantin, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The objective of this paper is to use the techniques of Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) to estimate the increase or decrease of inefficiencies through time, as well as the linear programming procedure Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the Malmquist index in order to analyze the sources of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621892
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Un estudio acerca de los determinantes de la productividad y la ineficiencia técnica en la industria colombiana, 1992-2007
Quintero, Loaiza; Leandro, Osmar; Vásquez, Franco; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The aim of this article is to estimate the determinants of industrial productivity growth in Colombia’s regions. In this regard, we follow to Kumbhakar and Lovell (2000), who decompose total factor productivity growth into three sources: technical change, scale economies and technical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257964
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Investment in Fixed Broadband Networks and Access Regulation in Developed and Developing countries: Panel Data Applications
Ben Dkhil, Inès - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
policy practices in many countries across the world in order to establish sustainable competition in whole telecommunication … errors, we show that the relationship between regulation and broadband investment is an inverted U shape in developed world … developing countries, the regulation has a strict negative impact on broadband deployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110260
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Estimation of a panel stochastic frontier model with unobserved common shocks
Hsu, Chih-Chiang; Lin, Chang-Ching; Yin, Shou-Yung - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper develops panel stochastic frontier models with unobserved common correlated effects. The common correlated effects provide a way of modeling cross-sectional dependence and represent heterogeneous impacts on individuals resulting from unobserved common shocks. Traditional panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108928
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Long-run growth patterns within Asian NIEs: Empirical analysis based on the panel unit root test, allowing the heterogeneity of time trend and endogenous multiple structural breaks
Matsuki, Takashi; Usami, Ryoichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This study examines whether or not the convergence of per capita output—which is categorized as catching-up and long-run convergence, defined by Oxley and Greasley (1995)—exists within Asian newly industrializing economies (Asian NIEs), namely, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260211
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Sectoral convergence in output per worker between Portuguese regions
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The aim of this paper is to present a further contribution to the analysis of absolute convergence ( and ), associated with the neoclassical theory, and conditional, associated with endogenous growth theory, of the sectoral productivity at regional level. Presenting some empirical evidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226958
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Net migration and convergence in Portugal. An alternative analysis
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this work we pretend to present a project of research about the identification of the determinants that affect the mobility of labor. The empirical part of the work will be performed for the NUTS II of Portugal, from 1996 to 2002. As main conclusion it can be said which is confirmed the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246899
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Productivity and income convergence in transition: theory and evidence from Central Europe
Spruk, Rok - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper examines the evolution of income per capita for a sample of high-income transition countries in the period 1991-2007. The analysis focuses on the dynamics of income per capita convergence throughout the period. We review patterns of income dispersion in Central Europe in a historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294920
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Do Exchange Rate Regimes Matter? Evidence for Developing Countries
Larrain, Felipe; Parro, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Most countries which have experienced exchange rate crises over the last two decades have been under soft pegs or crawls. These exchange rate arrangements have normally succumbed in the face of massive capital inflow reversals --especially in developing countries-- thus provoking a search for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009495125
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Application of Keynesian and convergence theories in Portugal. Differences and similarities
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This work aims to test the Verdoorn Law, with the alternative specifications of (1)Kaldor (1966), for the 28 NUTS III Portuguese in the period 1995 to 1999. It is intended to test, also in this work, the alternative interpretation of (2)Rowthorn (1975) about the Verdoorn's Law for the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251533