We analyze how adding the shadow economy to official output figures affects technical efficiency. We find that this … only slightly affects the ranking of efficiency scores, but increases average efficiency. Our results are robust to the …

This paper examines Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and knowledge flows, using international patent data. The result is …-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic between industry innovations are productivity enhancing. However, foreign …-sourced between-industry innovation has a negative effect on domestic productivity. This highlights the dual aspect of patents as a …

India. Academic research is conceptualised as a research production process where research inputs (like research time and …. Our results clearly identify several drivers of academic research and patenting in India, in terms of faculty background … India. In particular, we argue that putting in place institutional structures will not serve the purpose without addressing …

India's emergence in the world economy over the last decade, has often, in popular discourse, been attributed, at least … present an overview of India's technological trajectory with a view to understanding the nuances of India's technological … capability and the role it has played in the process of India's economic progress. Our conclusion is that while India has …

study reveals that the bank-specific factors are the most influential on banks’ profitability, and to a lesser extent the … management efficiency of the banking sector to improve banks’ performance …

This paper analyzes the economic impact of unions on productivity in the manufacturing sector across six Latin American … paper finds that unions have positive, but mostly small, effects on productivity, with the exception of Argentina, with a … large negative effect, and Bolivia, with no effect. An analysis on profitability shows that, in most cases, the positive …

Using aggregate data from the Annual Survey of Industries, we analyze profitability in India's organized manufacturing … two medium run regimes, one of declining profitability (1982-83 to 2001-02), and another of growing profitability (2001 …-02 to 2012-13). We find six short run regimes, of which only two are periods of rising profitability, 1987-88 to 1996 …