analyze how this mechanism affects the selection of executives and, through this, the firm’s productivity compared to a … conglomerate or by a foreign entity. The resulting distortion in executive selection can account for total factor productivity …

care productivity, we analyze longitudinal data on the medical expenditures and health outcomes of the vast majority of …-profit hospitals have important spillover benefits for medical productivity …

productivity, we analyze longitudinal data on the medical expenditures and health outcomes of the vast majority of nonrural elderly … spillover benefits for medical productivity …

care productivity, we analyze longitudinal data on the medical expenditures and health outcomes of the vast majority of …-profit hospitals have important spillover benefits for medical productivity …

A primal index of productivity change is introduced which decomposes exactly in three components: technical change … best linear approximation of the Orea (2002) translog productivity index (primal growth accounting). The existing proposals … for the primal productivity index are discussed in detail. An empirical illustration on real data is provided to show the …