Using a recently developed stochastic Translog production function frontier model, technical inefficiency, technological progress and returns to scale are examined during Russia's 1998-2007 cyclical expansion at the branch level including both the market and non-market economy. The service...

Using 1984-1989 firm level data from Vilnius, Lithuania, the industrial structure of a former Soviet city is examined for the first time. A combination of two panel data stochastic frontier methods is used to derive indices of relative technical inefficiency of firms within several branches in...

Panel data collected recently in Irkutsk Province show that significant technical inefficiency existed across industrial branches between 1970-1991. Technical inefficiency is much more widely dispersed across branches than has been previously reported in other studies suggesting the need for...