-- Environmental Performance -- Good and Bad Outputs -- Productivity with Bads -- Environmental Quantity Index -- Shadow Pricing … Aggregation -- Aggregating Farrell Efficiency Indexes -- Luenberger Productivity Indicators -- Aggregation Across Inputs and … efficiency measures as special cases providing a unifying framework for existing productivity and efficiency measures. It is also …

-multinational” technology transfer of Spanish firms that were acquired by foreign companies and the second analysing productivity growth rate …

Using a heterodox perspective, this book discusses the real possibilities of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico ever … sector, as well as their productivity, structural transformation, and degree of external dependence and international … Analysis from Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico …

. Chapter 1 gives a brief introduction to the classical theory on both discrete and continuous time Markov chains. The … relationship between Markov chains of finite states and matrix theory will also be highlighted. Some classical iterative methods …-order Markov chain models, particularly a class of parsimonious higher-order Markov chain models. Efficient estimation methods for …