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Natural disasters and industrial production efficiency : evidence from prewar Japan
Mohan, Preeya; Okubo, Toshihiro; Strobl, Eric - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588661
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The effect of natural and man-made disasters on countries' production efficiency
Halkos, George E.; Managi, Shunsuke; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 4 (2015), pp. 1-13
This study intends to understand how disaster is related to countries' production efficiency using a sample of 137 … countries over 1980 - 2011. We analyze the effect of the number of man-made and natural disaster occurrences on countries … inverted "U" shape relationship between countries' technological change and technological catch-up with disaster occurrences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386771
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Technical efficiency and its determinants of rice production in Cambodia
Kea, Sokvibol; Li, Hua; Pich, Linvolak - In: Economies : open access journal 4 (2016) 4, pp. 1-17
The present study aims to measure the technical efficiency and establish core factors affecting rice production in Cambodia. A four‐year dataset generated from the central government document “Profile on Economics and Social” of 25 entire provinces between 2012 and 2015 and the stochastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542862
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Reaching for the stars : Australian firms and the global productivity frontier
Andrews, Dan; Hambur, Jonathan; Hansell, David; … - 2022
A feature of the recent global slowdown in productivity growth is that progress at the technological frontier has … and competitive pressures can improve Australia's productivity performance, by increasing incentives for firms to adopt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163008
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Production and Efficiency in 21 Industrialized Countries from 1966 to 2007 to Analyse the Italy’s Decline : Application of a Stochastic Frontier Model in a Bayesian Approach
Vassallo, Erasmo - 2009
We use a stochastic frontier production model to estimate the technical efficiency of the 21 more industrialized countries in the world for the wide period from 1966 to 2007. A Cobb-Douglas function with labour and capital as inputs, GDP as output and an efficiency term with exponential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153056
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Nested Stochastic Possibility Frontiers with Heterogeneous Capital Inputs
Erber, Georg - 2008
This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012726102
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Industry competitiveness indicators
Asmild, Mette; Baležentis, Tomas; Hougaard, Jens Leth - 2019
It can be argued that the competitiveness of an industry consists of two main parts: The production conditions and the utilization of these. The production conditions are largely determined by factors exogenous to the firms comprising the industry, including the economic environment, regulatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012125238
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Efficiency, Technological Progress and Regional Comparative Advantage : A Study of Organised Manufacturing Sector in India
Mukherjee, Dipa; Majumder, Rajarshi - 2012
championed on grounds of improving productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness. In a developing economy this is a costly … proposition due to capital scarcity, and the effect of technological changes on productivity and efficiency levels have to be … estimated before taking such policies. This paper seeks to estimate trends in Factor Productivity, Technological Progress, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206891
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Measuring economic growth using data envelopment analysis
Škare, Marinko; Rabar, Danijela - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 18 (2016) 42, pp. 386-406
Exploring and explaining development gaps between countries is an important theoretical and empirical task. This paper presents empirical studies related to economic growth and its determinants across countries, based on the use of data envelopment analysis method. It emphasizes the importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011841918
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Nested stochastic possibility frontiers with heterogeneous capital inputs
Erber, Georg; Madlener, Reinhard - 2007
This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264965