In the paper we investigate relative productivity levels and decompose productivity change for European agriculture … between 2004 and 2013. More specifically (1) we contribute to the debate whether agricultural Total Factor Productivity (TFP … this respect between the OMS and NMS and across member states. Finally, our estimations support the productivity …

This study examines technical efficiency and productivity growth of Greek livestock farms participating in the 1994 … consists of two different groups of livestock farms, i.e. one group contains farms participating in the 1994-EU-FCP while the … approach developed by Simar and Wilson (1998a, b) to bootstrapping both DEA efficiency measures and Malmquist productivity …

The paper investigates whether the poor productivity performance of the European business services industry is related … productivity frontier and so obtain the distance of firms to the productivity frontier, using detailed industry-level panel data … distance with the productivity frontier. We find that that most scale advantages are exhausted after reaching a size of 20 …