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This paper estimates the impact of financial development on industry-level total factor productivity (TFP) growth using …
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Productivity growth in Indian manufacturing is an important driver of overall growth, yet the issues related to its … measurement have still not been resolved. The issue of how to compute an aggregate productivity measure holds significance for two … reasons: one, the productivity of a firm should reflect the productivity of the lower levels, which comprise the aggregate …
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productivity by as much as 6%, suggesting large "productivity costs" of business cycles. …
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This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …
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In this paper we provide firm-level evidence on the role of resource misallocation for total factor productivity … capital/labor productivity build up more capital/labor and that financial constraints play a significant role, especially in …
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Economic analysts have used trends in total factor productivity (TFP) to evaluate the effectiveness with which …
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I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I test it on a sample of 160 countries over the period...
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productivity. Using econometric modelling and input-output economics, the analysis examines and measures the extent to which … telecommunications has contributed to national and sectoral productivity performance. The main findings from this paper suggests that …
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model, the state-wide total factor productivity growth (TFPG) indices of US commercial banks for each state for the 1971 …-1995 period. We observe that the productivity growth of commercial banks in state i depends strongly, positively, and … contemporaneously on the productivity growth of commercial banks located in state i's contiguous states. Further, regulatory space …
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This paper investigates the effects of foreign direct investment inflows in the industrial, construction and services sectors on economic growth in a panel of sixteen Central, Eastern and Southeastern European CESEE countries using data of different time spans within the 1998-2013 period. The...
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