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Total factor productivity in South African manufacturing firms

Kreuser, Friedrich; Newman, Carol - 2016

The manufacturing sector is an important source of productivity growth and exports. Manufacturing firms are generally more productive than firms in the agricultural or services sectors and are an important source of job creation. Little is known about the productivity performance of the sector...

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Driving factors of growth in Hungary - a decomposition exercise

Kátay, Gábor (contributor); Wolf, Zoltán (contributor) - 2008

Applications tend to ignore that measured TFP reflects the variation of output that cannot be explained by changes in inputs. Such a change is not necessarily technological, so measured TFP differences across firms are an amalgam of technological, efficiency and other differences in attributes,...

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Market imperfections, skills and total factor productivity : firm-level evidence on Belgium and the Netherlands

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Vancauteren, Mark - 2014

This paper revisits the relationship between competition and total factor productivity by analyzing how the type and the degree of product and labor market imperfections affect different moments of total factor productivity distributions. Following the methodology developed in Dobbelaere and...

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TOTEX Malmquist index for RPI-X regulation : does it correctly estimate the true frontier shift?

Meyer, Roland; Brunekreeft, Gert; Elias, George - 2019

The factor X in the RPI-X regulation aims to adjust price or revenue allowances to changes in total factor productivity and input prices. A cost Malmquist index can be applied to determine the efficient cost change (ECC). However, regulators typically do not have the necessary data on input...

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Baumol's cost-disease, efficiency, and productivity in the performing arts : an analysis of German public theaters

Last, Anne-Kathrin; Wetzel, Heike - 2010

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 sources we examine (a) whether Baumol’s cost-disease...

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Estimating Returns to Capital and Ability : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Wong, Po Yin - 2017

This paper estimates economic returns to physical capital and inherent ability among Indonesian fishermen using a natural experiment. By exploiting the quasi-random variation in the length of fishing boats generated by an aid program among survivors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, it is found...

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The impact of Dieselgate on the required rate of return on equity of VW, BMW and DAIMLER

Čižinská, Romana; Matějková, Pavlína; Neset, Pavel - In: Financial internet quarterly 17 (2021) 1, pp. 8-18

Our paper studies the impacts of the Dieselgate scandal on the required rate of return on equity investments into VW, Daimler, and BMW. The object of investigation is the beta coefficient that determines the risk premium in the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). Our research takes a deep dive...

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Forecasting profitability

Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - 2013

We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...

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Creative Destruction and Transition : The Effects of Firm Entry and Exit on Productivity Growth in Estonia

Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Philips, Kaia - 2021

entry and exit as well as survival analysis of new firms. Also decompositions of productivity change into components … consisting of resource reallocation, firm entry and exit, and productivity growth within continuing firms is carried out. Our … results, derived from a novel database of the population of Estonian firms, show that firm turnover has been rather high in …

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Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Chinese provinces : a panel data analysis

Shiu, Alice (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2006

We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic variances has been used for the estimation of...

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