Profitability of Dutch greenhouse firms is largely dependent on energy costs, and policy makers focus on reducing the … use of energy by these firms. This article uses Russell measures of TE to develop indicators of energy productivity growth …. Results show that energy productivity grew by 2.8% annually in the period 1976-95, with technical progress being the key …

Profitability of Dutch greenhouse firms is largely dependent on energy costs, and policy makers focus on reducing the … use of energy by these firms. This article uses Russell measures of TE to develop indicators of energy productivity growth …. Results show that energy productivity grew by 2.8% annually in the period 1976 95, with technical progress being the key …

age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative … correlation of age on firms' profitability. Moreover, our micro-econometric analysis reveals for the first time that the ceteris …

This article explores the dynamics of market selection by investigating of the relationships linking productivity …, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998-2007. First, we find … that productivity variations, rather than relative levels, are the dominant productivity-related determinant of firm growth …

results, the industry experienced positive total factor productivity (TFP) growth during the observation period, which is … presence of increasing returns to scale led to efficiency gains of the firms. -- Insurance markets ; Total factor productivity …