Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors influencing the total factor productivity (TFP) gap … of non-constant returns to scale and a non-parametric approach (DEA – Malmquist Index) while relaxing the scale … technology gaps and innovations, labor productivity, trade openness, foreign direct investment, and adult workforce illiteracy …

Abstract Productivity growth in many advanced economies has decelerated in the last decades. There is increasing … evidence that the misallocation of production function has contributed to the weakness in productivity. Factors behind this … misallocation of production factors on productivity and assess their role for the weakness in productivity growth in Germany …

formula to provide a closer approximation to a cost-of-living index (COLI). This paper focuses on whether the BLS can improve … index closer to the C-CPI-U. We begin by estimating superlative price indexes for 1999 through 2007 along with indexes based … underlying the CPI imply substantial consumer substitution, implying that the CPI-U’s Lowe index formula yields higher inflation …

index theory in the last decades of the 19 th century. However, it soon lost ground after this period, which is described in … today, e. g. the merits and demerits of certain index formulas, the definition and updating of weights, “pure” price … comparison vs. chain indices etc. However, in order to aid a better understanding of how Laspeyres etc. arrived at their index …

traditional growth accounting and calculate the Malmquist index of total factor productivity change using a nonparametric approach …Summary In this paper we add new results to the investigation of productivity levels rather than productivity changes …, as proposed by Hall/Jones (1996, 1997, 1999). To obtain measures of relative productivity levels we depart from …

canonical correlation analysis and estimated canonical weights are used as weights in the calculation of index scores. Findings … macroeconomic indices, this method of index construction is superior in at least two respects. First, direct measures of a country …

private players in 2000. The objective of the study is to determine the total factor productivity growth in the general … the public sector) for the period 2004-05 to 2011-12. For the purpose of growth assessment, Malmquist Index is computed …

duration. In this research a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and a Malmquist Index (MI) are combined with a double bootstrap … methodology to measure changes in Total Factor Productivity of general cropping farms in East Anglia. More specifically, the DEA … to derive information on productivity over time. Data for the input – output models was obtained from the Farm Business …

Using data envelopment analysis (DEA), the authors investigate the productivity changes of 42 African countries by … computing the Malmquist productivity indices. Subsequently, the measured Malmquist productivity indices become the dependent …