This paper investigates the time-path of efficiency and productivity change in the case of the Romanian cement industry … the Romanian cement industry before the revolution in 1989 is a slow rate of productivity progress, and a corresponding … catch up in the level of productive efficiency. -- Productivity change ; productive efficiency ; stochastic frontiers ; time …

This paper models and estimates total factor productivity (TFP) growth parametrically. The model is a generalization of …

Variable Factor Productivity (TVFP) and bias of technical change are estimated and illuminated using figures for isoquant maps …

relationship between innovation and productivity in Finland, Norway and Sweden at the firm level. Although these countries enjoy a … high degree of political, social and cultural similarities, they differ largely from one another in their productivity … productivity growth. Results reveal major discrepancies between the estimated firm-level results and the aggregated figures …

This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The … combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed …

technical change and TFP growth of provinces. -- Technical change ; total factor productivity growth ; technology indicator …

productivity growth ; technology indicator ; technology shifter ; OECD countries …

This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML …-Luenberger (ML) productivity growth index. MML has two advantages compared with the ML index. The former is able to consider … index is employed to measure productivity growth and decompose its components in 14 Korean industrial sectors during the …

improvement in productivity. Both econometric and non-parametric approaches are applied based on a 6-year balanced panel data of … international trade volume and trade structure towards high-tech exports result in positive effects on China's regional productivity …