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A detailed decomposition of the sources of the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth index within an output distance …
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This paper analyzes the distribution of technical efficiency within manufacturing industries. Using a representative sample of 35,000 firms in 255 industries of the German cost structure census, technical efficiencies are estimated by applying a deterministic frontier production function with...
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This paper investigates the sources of total factor productivity growth in the German manufacturing sector, 1981 …-1998. Decomposition formulae for aggregate productivity growth are used to identify the effects of structural change and entry-exit on … aggregate productivity growth. Documented is a substantial rise of productivity growth after the German reunification. The bulk …
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Increasing energy efficiency is one of the main goals in current German energy and climate policies. We study the determinants of energy efficiency in the German manufacturing sector based on official firm-level production census data. By means of a stochastic frontier analysis, we estimate the...
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We investigate the effect of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on the economic performance of manufacturing firms in Germany. Our difference-in-differences framework relies on several parametric conditioning strategies and nearest neighbor matching. As a measure of economic...
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