use stochastic frontier analysis methods to test for productivity and efficiency differences in manufacturing throughout … frontier estimations confirm very similar regional patterns. Nevertheless, efficiency varies strongly within states, indicating …

measured by technical efficiency, export performance, and technological innovation. This study also examines the key factors … efficiency, but loans from unlicensed moneylenders deteriorate their export performance. For external finance, government …-owned specialized financial institutions (SFIs) play a leading role in enhancing SME technical efficiency and export performance, but …

We study the relationship between technology shocks and labor input on Swedish firm-level data using a production … function approach to identify technology shocks. Taking standard steps yields a contractionary contemporaneous labor …-level rigidities. -- Technology Shocks ; Labor Input ; Business Fluctuations ; Micro Data …

The goal of this paper is to investigate the impact of technology investments on production efficiency in manufacturing … companies and how different these relationships are for low-technology and high-technology companies. The empirical part was … in labour intensity in low technology enterprises. The technological investments have a positive impact on labour …

Production capital and technology, fundamental to understanding output and productivity growth, are unobserved except … of capital and technology for the sample period. We apply the method to annual data from 1947-97 for U.S. total …

of 4000 firms, we examine the effects of importing technology (versus doing R&D) on Total Factor Porductivity (TFP … the growth of TFP, whereas the importation of technology is only weakly significant, which makes it difficult to qualify …

The efficiency of the German economy is powered by its knowledge-intensive industrial and services sectors. Yet the use …