terms of productivity and technical efficiency than universities that did not apply for the program, albeit these dimensions … applicants suffered a drop in efficiency at the time of applying. All this does not rule out, however, that research …-oriented universities jointly gained productivity through increased competition between them. …

In the paper we investigate relative productivity levels and decompose productivity change for European agriculture … between 2004 and 2013. More specifically (1) we contribute to the debate whether agricultural Total Factor Productivity (TFP … this respect between the OMS and NMS and across member states. Finally, our estimations support the productivity …

This paper documents the sources of the Republic of Korea's economic growth, as well as the associated productivity … growth and efficiency dynamics during its process of structural transformation from 1970 to 2016. The analysis includes land … makes significant differences in measuring the magnitudes and directions of change in sectoral total factor productivity …

productivity, but this effect was stronger in the areas in which railways were already built. Moreover, railways helped industrial … same time, the Kingdom of Italy started a large infrastructure project to spread railways, which were largely confined in … Northern Italy, all over the country. Using tools from spatial econometrics, we find that railways played a positive effect on …