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Deutsche Industrie durch forschungsintensive Güter erfolgreich
Belitz, Heike; Gornig, Martin; Schiersch, Alexander - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 9, pp. 2-10
Deutschland ist mit seiner starken Spezialisierung auf die Produktion von Investitionsgütern von der weltweiten Rezession besonders betroffen. Das technologieintensive Produktionsprofil seiner Industrie spricht aber dafür, dass Deutschland gestärkt aus der gegenwärtigen Wirtschaftskrise...
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Recent evidence on agricultural efficiency and productivity in China: a metafrontier approach
Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat; Wang, Xiaobing - 2007
Economic reform in China helped transform the structure and volume of agricultural production and resulted in … productivity (TFP) in China by allowing producers operating under their own technologies. A metafrontier function approach is … enhancing agricultural TE and TFP growth in China. Our major findings indicate that TC was mostly attributed to Chinese …
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The impact of reform on economic growth in China: A principal component analysis
Song, Ligang; Sheng, Yu - 2008
further urbanization, openness to trade and industrial structural adjustments to sustain the growth momentum in China. The … study also found that the potential for further enhancing growth through technical efficiency in China is considerable …
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Russia's agriculture: eight years in transition - convergence or divergence of regional efficiency
Uvarovsky, Vladimir; Voigt, Peter - 2000
In this paper, we consider how Russian Agriculture has developed since the constitution of the Russian Federation. The analysis is based on Oblast level data of 75 territorial units during the period from 1993 to 1998 and is focusing on technical efficiency (TE), technological change, and (both...
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What determines local governments' technical efficiency? The case of road maintenance
Kalb, Alexander - 2009
In this paper we investigate the determinants of local governments' technical efficiency in road maintenance for a panel of German counties using a broad variety of estimation approaches. More specifically, we calculate efficiency indices using non-parametric (DEA) and parametric (stochastic...
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What causes cross-industry differences of technical efficiency? An empirical investigation
Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2004
Using micro-level panel data of about 35,000 firms from the German Cost Structure Census, we analyze the differences of technical efficiency across industries. Technical efficiency is estimated by firms' fixed effects. One striking result is that the distribution of technical efficiency across...
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The distribution and heterogeneity of technical efficiency within industries: An empirical assessment
Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2004
This paper analyzes the distribution of technical efficiency within manufacturing industries. Using a representative sample of 35,000 firms in 255 industries of the German cost structure census, technical efficiencies are estimated by applying a deterministic frontier production function with...
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Spatial Stochastic Frontier Models
Lavado, Rouselle F.; Barrios, Erniel B. - 2010
The stochastic frontier model with heterogeneous technical efficiency explained by exogenous variables is augmented with a sparse spatial autoregressive component for a cross-section data, and a spatial-temporal component for a panel data. An estimation procedure that takes advantage of the...
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Technical Efficiency of the Danish Trawl fleet: Are the Industrial Vessels Better than Others?
Vestergaard, Niels; Squires, Dale; Jensen, Frank; … - 2002
Technical efficiency in the Danish trawl fishery in the North Sea is estimated for 1997 and 1998 by a stochastic production frontier model. This model allows noise when the frontier and the technical efficiency is found, which for fisheries is a reasonable assumption. The results show that the...
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Technical and structural efficiency in Mexican manufacturing: A regional approach
Chávez, Juan Carlos; Fonseca, Felipe J. - 2012
This paper applies a stochastic frontier approach to analyze the evolution of technical efficiency in manufacturing as a source of regional growth, taking as a unit of analysis the Mexican states in the period 1988-2008. The main findings of our analysis are threefold. First, technical...
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