The role of FDI inflows and outflows to host countries and from the source countries emerged in the 1980s as the major vehicle technology transfer that accelerated the globalization or international integration of 25 leading OECD economies over a period of 25 years (1983-2007). Although...

The paper reports the empirical results of the validation of the Stochastic Production Frontier (SPF) Model to an unbalanced panel comprising a cross-section of 8 manufacturing industries over a time span of 26 years The results provide insights on the repercussions of the micro-economic reform...

This paper analyses empirically the changes in Sri Lanka's manufacturing productivity during a period of regime shift from import substituting industrialization to export oriented industrialization. We have used a varying coefficients stochastic production frontier model on a balanced panel data...