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Productive efficiency analysis of quantitative economics journals through stochastic frontier analysis using panel data
Gavilan Ruiz, José Manuel; Ortega Irizo, Francisco Javier - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 30 (2020), pp. 297-311
considered as a measure of this objective and, in turn, as a measure of productivity in relation to the production process in … which the journals are involved. In order to assess this production process, in this paper econometric models using data … distance between the actual production of the journals and their estimated maximum achievable number of citations based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437397
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Estimation of Moments and Production Decisions Under Uncertainty
Appelbaum, Elie; Ullah, Aman - 1998
The purpose of this paper is to examine production decisions under output price uncertainty. Using a nonparametric … examine the importance of higher moments in the firm's production decisions and to investigate underlying attitudes toward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061908
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Tax policy and the dynamic demand for domestic and foreign capital by multinational corporations
Altshuler, Rosanne; Cummins, Jason G. - 1997 - First draft: September 12, 1997
model in which domestic and foreign investment interact in two important ways. First, the MNC's production technology allows … from Canadian MNCs that invest solely in the United States. Our estimtes support the view that production and adjustment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576501
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Driving factors of growth in Hungary - a decomposition exercise
Kátay, Gábor (contributor); Wolf, Zoltán (contributor) - 2008
control for cyclical effects, we modify a standard technique in firmlevel production function estimation using a capacity … several years after the shocks. -- Economic growth ; production function ; input factor contributions ; total factor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003757275
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Self selection and post-entry effects of exports : evidence from Italian manufacturing firms
Serti, Francesco (contributor); Tomasi, Chiara (contributor) - 2007
Our paper adds empirical evidence on the causal effects of exporting on firms' performances. Using a rich database on Italian manufacturing firms, we test the self-selection and the post-entry effects hypotheses with respect to various firms' characteristics. Our analysis supports the idea that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003744962
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Productivity growth in European railways : technological progress, efficiency change and scale effects
Wetzel, Heike (contributor) - 2008
This paper analyzes the performance of the European railway sector in the period of deregulation (1990-2005). Using a stochastic frontier panel data model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity a multiple-output multipleinput distance function model is estimated in order to evaluate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770485
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Productivity of Czech small and medium entreprises: lagging behind their potential
Průša, Jan (contributor) - 2008
This paper analyzes microeconomic production functions of Czech small medium enterprises. We use the data from 2002 to … production process. Our results demonstrate that Czech SME depend in their functioning more on labour than on capital. The impact … a simple test for time effect shows that between 2003 and 2005 Czech SME moved towards higher efficiency. -- production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790277
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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
variances has been used for the estimation of the translog production functions. Two alternative formulations of technical … significant influence on TFP, their influence on production is relatively small compared to traditional inputs of production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323158
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Auswirkungen der Bevölkerungsentwicklung auf das wirtschaftliche Niveau der Regionen in Deutschland
Eckey, Hans-Friedrich; Kosfeld, Reinhold; Muraro, Nina - 2009
This paper examines the impact of demographic change on production today and in 2020. For the estimation a translog … production function is used. The results show a mostly divergent development. It is shown that there is a strong centre … of growth and allocation arises from the point of view of economic policy. -- regional production function ; productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003849368
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TFP growth in old and new Europe
Burda, Michael C.; Severgnini, Battista - 2009
Using Solow-Törnqvist residuals as well as two alternative measurements, we present estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in a sample of 30 European economies for the period 1994-2005. In most of Western Europe, we find a deceleration of TFP growth since 2000. However, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850709