to explore the sources of the productivity change. In summary, technical change and efficiency change are two of the most … shocks also caused downturns in the early and mid 90s. On the other hand, demand shocks captured by the efficiency change …

This paper discusses efficiency considerations underlying the widespread exemption of food from sales and value added … (including labour). On efficiency grounds, the exemption of food in sales and value added taxes …

-sharing that improves efficiency.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries …

production, as theory has hypothesized. The number of members in a group decreases both the quantity produced and the efficiency … arrangements on productive efficiency in medical group practices. The technique employed is two-stage production frontier … estimation. This technique provides direct estimates of productive efficiency and allows for differences across agents in ability …

This paper provides a method to measure the traditional Kaldor-Hicks notion of “economic efficiency” when taxes affect … behavior. In contrast to traditional unweighted surplus, measuring efficiency requires weighting individual benefits (or … results suggest that measuring economic efficiency requires weighting surplus accruing to the poor roughly 1.5-2 times more …

This paper develops a general theory of aggregation in inefficient economies. We provide non-parametric formulas for … 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 …

-constant returns to scale, input-output linkages, and distortions. We decompose output changes into technical and allocative efficiency … example, we show that the efficiency losses caused by markups in the US rise from around 20% of GDP to around 40% once we …

of developed and developing countries show general problems with the efficiency of resource usage similar to those found …