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 …, allows productivity changes to be decomposed into two categories: technical efficiency changes, and technological changes …

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 …

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 …

This study examines productivity growth of 3 ECOWAS crops, namely, rice, cotton and millet, using both Stochastic … productivity progress among ECOWAS member nations producing rice, cotton and millet. (2) Though, magnitudes of the inefficiencies … and productivity progress vary across models applied and by segmentation of the data set, there is little or no conflict …