productivity, but this effect was stronger in the areas in which railways were already built. Moreover, railways helped industrial … same time, the Kingdom of Italy started a large infrastructure project to spread railways, which were largely confined in … Northern Italy, all over the country. Using tools from spatial econometrics, we find that railways played a positive effect on …

terms of productivity and technical efficiency than universities that did not apply for the program, albeit these dimensions … applicants suffered a drop in efficiency at the time of applying. All this does not rule out, however, that research …-oriented universities jointly gained productivity through increased competition between them. …

frontier, TFP being the composite effect of efficiency scores and possibility frontier changes. We consider, for the periods … private physical capital per worker. We use a semiparametric analysis, computing Malmquist productivity indexes, and we also …

This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China over the ten years to 2006. Using a … bootstrap method for the Malmquist index estimates of productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence intervals … for the robustness of the results by examining alternative sets of outputs. The productivity growth of the state …

estimate productivity change, technological change, and relative efficiency change in China's telecommunications industry for … substantial productivity growth. The actual productivity growth pattern in the sector, however, need to be empirically examined …. In this paper, using input and output data at the provincial level, we employ DEA-based Malmquist productivity index to …

Many economists maintain that environmental regulations hamper productivity growth. However, recently, an opposing view … environmental regulations and productivity growth is an almost inevitable consequence of the current methods used to measure … productivity - methods that fail to account for improvements in environmental performance. We apply a method that amends this …

commercial banks improved its productivity growth both in terms of frontier shift and efficiency gain throughout the whole period …This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China and a sample of city commercial, banks for … the eleven years to 2007. Estimates of total factor productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence …

This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China over the ten years to 2006. Using a … bootstrap method for the Malmquist index estimates of productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence intervals … for the robustness of the results by examining alternative sets of outputs. The productivity growth of the state …

The main focus of this Discussion Paper the analysis of the efficiency of agricultural enterprises in Sachsen … efficiency measurement the technical, pure technical and scale efficiency of agricultural enterprises on verge of the eastern …, increasing prices of operational resources as soon as decreasing producer prices effected lower efficiency in both countries. In …