advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to grow for most firms beyond 1997 while remaining …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in … distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all parts of the distribution) from 1992-1994 to 1995-1997 and did not …

levels of productivity and efficiency of seaports in India. This paper applies DEA technique to assess productivity and … productivity and efficiency of the port sector. Since, there is an attempt in recent years to overhaul the infrastructure sectors … efficiency of seaports in India. Design/Research methods: DEA technique is extensively used in the literature of economics to …

A method for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions is proposed. It is examined … whether departures from the frontier …

-industry restructuring in productivity growth, few studies have gone beyond the framework of the representative firm in examining convergence … or divergence in regional productivity. We use unique longitudinal plant-level data over a long period of time and apply … a useful variant of productivity decomposition methods to study differences in productivity-enhancing restructuring …

This paper studies why multinational firms often share ownership of a foreign affiliate with a local partner even in … the absence of government restrictions on ownership. We show that shared ownership may arise, if (i) the partner owns …. In this context shared ownership acts as a screening device. Our model predicts that the multinational?s ownership share …

recorded in Serbia and Montenegro. Russia and Ukraine performed very well, registering significant and balanced growth. The … and institutional adaptations, as well as ongoing gains in labour productivity remain important for maintaining export … much more essential structural changes in the composition of exports have certainly continued. For Russia, external …

Belarus, Russia and Ukraine as well as in China. For each country, it provides a forecast relating to GDP growth, inflation … positive growth figures recorded by the global economy as a whole. Central and Eastern Europe, together with Russia, Ukraine …, only Estonia and Lithuania currently meet all the Maastricht convergence criteria. A brief study of foreign trade data …

in analyses of productive efficiency. The distributions of these estimators remain unknown except in the simple case of … well as smoothing of the DEA frontier estimate. Both bootstrap procedures allow for dependence of the inefficiency process …

least expensive source of protein for the farmers. Low production and productivity, which are mainly associated with poor … analyze the technical efficiency and impact of improved farm inputs adoption on the yield of haricot bean producers. A multi … schedule. Data analysis was done with the help of Stochastic Frontier Analysis; mainly Cobb-Douglas Production Function …