technology affects the efficiency and productivity in innovation of technology acquiring firms. Using the stochastic frontier … efficiency. Moreover, we find that firm size significantly contributes to innovative efficiency and productivity of external … technology acquirers. -- Technology Acquisition ; Innovative Efficiency ; Innovative Productivity ; SFA ; Difference …

influence on productivity can be compensated by efficiency gains. The findings indicate an increase in real unit labor cost as a …This paper analyzes the productivity development in the German public theater sector for the seasons 1991 …/1992-2005/2006. Using a stochastic distance frontier approach that allows to decompose total factor productivity change into different …

recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain insights into these differences we split the efficiency … method to measure efficiency, we separate short-term (transient) and long-term (persistent) efficiency, while controlling for … unobserved institution specific heterogeneity. While the first term reflects the efficiency of the individual universities …

The vast majority of the efficiency and productivity measurement literature has been based on the static viewpoint of … Factor Productivity growth has predominantly been based on static efficiency specifications. This di... … the firm. Few studies have developed the dynamic analog of static efficiency measurement, introducing the notions of long …

estimation based on stochastic non-smooth envelopment of data (StoNED) allows for productivity estimation with few microeconomic …While productivity growth in electricity generation is associated with multiple positive effects from an economic and … environmental perspective, measuring it is challenging. This paper proposes a framework to estimate and decompose productivity …