productivity and efficiency. Traditional growth theories focus on the first factor where in developing countries, and especially … in the productivity and efficiency and use of the excess capacity has focused. Therefore, the efficiency analysis of …

This paper investigates the time-path of efficiency and productivity change in the case of the Romanian cement industry … the Romanian cement industry before the revolution in 1989 is a slow rate of productivity progress, and a corresponding … catch up in the level of productive efficiency. -- Productivity change ; productive efficiency ; stochastic frontiers ; time …

model is estimated in order to evaluate the sources of productivity growth: technological progress, technical efficiency … productivity growth, followed by gains in technical efficiency, and to a lesser extent by exploitation of scale economies. Overall …, we find an average productivity growth of 39 per cent within the sample period. -- European railways ; deregulation …

aimed at improving efficiency and productivity in the European higher education sector. We assess the change in productivity … non-parametric Malmquist productivity index by benchmarking the non-science disciplines and the science disciplines of … both countries separately against a common frontier. Given the lack of statistical inference of non-parametric productivity …

This paper examines and applies the theoretical foundation of the decomposition of economic and productivity growth to … effect on growth. Technical progress is the main contributor to productivity growth and the scale effect has become important …

The paper investigates whether the poor productivity performance of the European business services industry is related … productivity frontier and so obtain the distance of firms to the productivity frontier, using detailed industry-level panel data … distance with the productivity frontier. We find that that most scale advantages are exhausted after reaching a size of 20 …

This paper examines and applies the theoretical foundation of the decomposition of economic and productivity growth to … effect on growth. Technical progress is the main contributor to productivity growth and the scale effect has become important …