efficiency change has been invariant to the treatment of the undesirable output as input. The average productivity growth is 2 … efficiency under strong disposability and weak disposability and a modified output oriented Malmquist index. The graph measure of … technical efficiency accounting for undesirable outputs reveals that regulations of agriculture GHG emission would be effective …

The geopressured zone, assuming the presence of natural gas and high water productivity, may be used to produce … 63?/M Btu and a unit power cost of 46 mills/kwh. The conversion efficiency of the plant, including hydraulic turbine … energy from the well head overpressure, was 10.3%. This low efficiency accounts for the high unit power cost. A one-well, 1 …

efficiency to free existing staff time to develop additional types of data from our partners. Another long-term theme related to … expanding data coverage to estimates of productivity and/or data needed to calculate productivity. Initial investigations within …

productivity after going private, there is little evidence of difference-in-differences efficiency gains relative to peer groups of … firms to be myopic in a way that impacts efficiency, then going private (when myopia is eliminated) should cause U.S. firms … to improve their establishment level productivity relative to a peer control groups of firms. We find no evidence that …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

productivity growth, and production efficiency improvement. In addition, this paper incorporates the quality of inputs in analyzing … output growth, where the productivity of capital depends on its average age, while the productivity of labor depends on its … the improved quality of factors or total factor productivity growth in explaining output growth. The quality of capital …

economic efficiency of smallholder Irish potato producers in Kenya by drawing on data from random sample of 130 smallholder … efficiency components and a two-limit Tobit model is used to derive efficiency indices as a function of a vector of socio … efficiency is 0.39 with a range of 0.12 - 0.66. Education, access to extension, access to credit and membership in a farmers …