This paper investigates Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and efficiency growth pattern for India's chemical industry for … different performance measures, viz. productivity growth, technological change and technical efficiency change for the period … for accelerating productivity change in Indian chemical industry. The subsectors of the industry that experienced higher …

Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to determine the different levels of productivity and efficiency improvement over this period. The … results point to modest, but positive productivity gains in the larger urban centers, independent of industry structure …. Further, it highlights the need to consider exogenous factors that can influence productivity outcomes in an industry …

significant changes in efficiency and productivity. This paper measures agricultural technical efficiency (TE) and total factor … productivity (TFP) in China by allowing producers operating under their own technologies. A metafrontier function approach is … Arbeit misst technische Effizienz (TE) und total factor productivity (TFP) in China unter der Annahme individueller …

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 assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is … based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment … underlying cause of the pickup in productivity in Canada and the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States. …

in agriculture than in manufacturing. Further, a decomposition of labor productivity growth in eight Asian countries for …

This paper studies the efficiency and productivity growth of commercial banks in Taiwan before and after financial … well as Malmquist productivity growth indices for each bank. We chose 15 member banks of financial holding corporations and …

economies are mainly criticized for widespread economic inefficiency and low total factor productivity. Thus, in order to see … how the efficiency levels and productivity growth of the former Soviet union countries have changed during the transition …, on average, technical efficiency has slightly increased, however, total factor productivity decreased due to technical …

This paper applies data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index (MPI) approach to examine the … total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components of 50 private sector hospitals of India for the period 2004 … change is found in the technology. Thus, the decomposed TFP index shows that much of the observed growth in productivity …

productivity (TFP), we estimate efficiency measures for Eastern European and Baltic countries and the republics of the former …