What are the drivers of growth and convergence in productivity at regional level? Differences in the stock of human … exploiting a database covering European regions from 1995 to 2015, which includes regional total factor productivity (TFP …

systematic way. This paper revisits the debate on how to decompose Bjurek's concept of a Malmquist productivity index into … time a theoretical justification for the geometric average form of the Bjurek productivity index …Caves, Christensen, Diewert introduced Malmquist output, input and productivity indexes into production theory in a …

This paper estimates the total factor productivity (TFP) change of the private and public sectors in the Turkish … manufacturing industry in the selected provinces for 1990-98. It uses data envelopment analysis to compute Malmquist productivity … technical progress plays the main role in productivity growth …

the rate of change in inputs. We find that the overall NHS productivity growth index increased by 10% over the whole …We assess the productivity growth of the English and Italian healthcare systems over the period from 2004 to 2011. The … principles, financing, organization, management, and size. We measure productivity growth as the rate of change in outputs over …

The aim of this paper is to provide a contribution to the debate on the effectiveness of cohesion policies in Italy. It … reduction in the regional divide in terms of GDP pro capita, but they have had no impact on the dynamics of labour productivity …

literature and discuss several other related indexes. We present two impossibility results demonstrating that no index can … satisfy all of the axioms on a general class of (well-behaved) technologies. Specifically, no inefficiency index can satisfy … both indication and continuity (in either quantities or technologies), and no inefficiency index can satisfy both …

A quarter-century after reunification, labor productivity in eastern Germany continues to lag systematically behind the … West. Denison-Hall-Jones point-in-time estimates point to large gaps in total factor productivity as the proximate cause …