productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … the period. The most significant factor affecting efficiency change, technical change and productivity growth is RD …This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor …

Most often, the competition authorities approve combinations based on the tradeoff between the expected efficiency … efficiency gains are actually achieved by the firms entering into consolidation in India, which experienced large number of … efficiency of the firms involved in mergers and acquisitions, separately for cross-border and domestic deals. …

also focused on large farms due to their share of output, efficiency gains from vertical and horizontal integration, and … in Brazil's agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth, which has accelerated at one of the world's fastest … at the municipality level into five farm-size classes. The findings of this study point to heavy technical efficiency …