approaches for estimation and inference, with particular emphasis on inference since nothing can be learned from estimation …, but recent work indicates that reducing dimensionality using eigensystem techniques may improve estimation accuracy …

Efficiency and productivity measurement in the insurance industry has attracted great interest from academicians … productivity changes of the life insurance industry in Ghana poses management challenges. The main objective of this paper is to … measure the efficiency and productivity changes in the life insurance industry in Ghana. The Ghana National Insurance …

terms of productivity. Our approach works when quantities and prices are latent, rendering standard approaches inapplicable …

The purpose of this paper is to treat scale economies, profit-maximizing markups, economic profitability, capacity … utilization and productivity growth within an integrated structural model, and to assess their interactions empirically using … annual two-digit U.S. manufacturing data. Attention is focused on error biases in measuring productivity using traditional …

The purpose of this paper is to treat scale economies, profit-maximizing markups, economic profitability, capacity … utilization and productivity growth within an integrated structural model, and to assess their interactions empirically using … annual two-digit U.S. manufacturing data. Attention is focused on error biases in measuring productivity using traditional …