) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector … for both the theoretical literature on growth and alternative indexes of aggregate productivity growth based only on …

We study how innovation and technology diffusion interact to endogenously determine the shape of the productivity …

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

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 … to explore the sources of the productivity change. In summary, technical change and efficiency change are two of the most …

this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger. These mergers are initiated by a regulator, acting … examine the impact of mergers on a large set of outcomes including financial performance, productivity, waiting times and …

change in hospital multi-factor productivity. Not-for-profits invested more heavily and differently in IT than for … productivity or whether private and public returns to health IT diverge thereby justifying government intervention. We estimate the … parameters of a value-added hospital production function correcting for endogenous input choices in order to assess the private …

hospital productivity, or increase with unmeasured patient severity … differences in patient severity or the productivity of health-care providers. We use a variety of instruments that are plausibly …