to explore the sources of the productivity change. In summary, technical change and efficiency change are two of the most …This paper aims to examine the productivity change of the Japanese economy using the data pertaining to the 47 … prefectures during the period 1981-2000. The decomposition analysis of the Hicks-Moorsteen-Bjurek productivity index is conducted …

empirical finding.Three elaborations to the basic production frontier framework are developed and used to interpret the accident-productivity …

How important are bureaucrats for the productivity of the state? And to what extent do the tradeoffs between different …

This paper seeks to explain the U-shaped relationship between farm productivity and farm scale - the initial fall in … productivity as farm size increases from its lowest levels and the continuous upward trajectory as scale increases after a …

We study the impact of firm level choices of ICT, R&D, exporting and importing on the evolution of productivity and its … “techies”. We develop a methodology for estimating firm level productivity that allows us to measure both Hicks-neutral and … from 2009 to 2013. We find that techies and importing of intermediate inputs raise skill-biased productivity, while imports …

mobility, and input-output network linkages. We show how to separately measure changes in technical and allocative efficiency … U.S. We find that improvement in allocative efficiency, due to the reallocation over time of market share to high …

This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity … through their various impacts on changes in production prices and wages. In a first stage, the estimation of a regression …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted …

. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …

. Farmers responded to the shrinking transportation wedge and rising revenue productivity by rapidly expanding the area under …

U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical …, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today’s agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms … innovation will be required to preserve past productivity gains in the face of climate change, coevolving pests and diseases, and …