The first aim of this paper is to decompose the productivity advantage of foreign multinationals into two components …: the technology and scale effect. The second aim is to analyse the causal relationship between foreign ownership and these … two components of productivity growth. We do so by analyzing the effects of an acquisition of a domestic establishment by …

returns to scale. The study further finds that maize producers realize 83% of the frontier output averagely and there is the …

change in productivity of the Local Health Trust (LHT) in directly managed Italian hospitals. We will also explore whether …-Malmquist index are used to derive technical efficiency, and changes in productivity and efficiency, for directly managed hospitals in … efficiency analysis, has hospital individual relevance. The Malmquist index reveals productivity improvement for 7 out of the 8 …

In this study, the nature and extent of efficiency and productivity growth in the US truckload (TL) carriers is … index is used to study the productivity changes in the US TL carriers. The window analysis results reveal that the average … economic conditions prevalent during the study period. Furthermore, a majority of the carriers are scale inefficient, which …

This paper examines the technical efficiency and productivity of 81 firms of the Indian pharmaceutical industry. The … study found that technical efficiency and productivity are higher in the product patent regime than in the process patent … regime. The analysis of Malmquist productivity index indicates that despite regression in technical change, firms …

The study provides new empirical evidence on the efficiency of a dual compared to a single banking sector. Using data … on the Indian and Pakistani banking sectors, we analyse the efficiency of both banking sectors in the recent financial … crises of 2004-2010. We employ the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method to compute the technical efficiency of each bank in …

Caves, Christensen, Diewert introduced Malmquist output, input and productivity indexes into production theory in a … systematic way. This paper revisits the debate on how to decompose Bjurek’s concept of a Malmquist productivity index into … explanatory factors, with a focus on extracting technical progress, technical efficiency change, and returns to scale components …

Caves, Christensen, Diewert introduced Malmquist output, input and productivity indexes into production theory in a … to decompose Malmquist productivity indexes into explanatory components. This paper revisits this debate of how to … decompose a Malmquist productivity index into explanatory factors, with a focus on extracting technical progress, technical …

Caves, Christensen, Diewert introduced Malmquist output, input and productivity indexes into production theory in a … systematic way. This paper revisits the debate on how to decompose Bjurek’s concept of a Malmquist productivity index into … explanatory factors, with a focus on extracting technical progress, technical efficiency change, and returns to scale components …