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The paper presents a new framework to assess firm level heterogeneity and to study the rate and direction of technical change. Building on the analysis of revealed short-run production functions by Hildenbrand (1981), we propose the (normalized) volume of the zonotope composed by vectors-firms...
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The paper presents a new framework to assess firm level heterogeneity and to study the rate and direction of technical change. Building on the analysis of revealed short-run production functions by Hildenbrand (1981), we propose the (normalized) volume of the zonotope composed by vectors-firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729259
several market distortions and mounting fiscal costs. Wheat and rice supply strongly and significantly respond to the minimum … Food Corporation of India's (FCI's) procurement volume is driven by the production level and the difference between the MSP … wheat, the influence of subsidised wheat is much less pronounced, probably due to weaker functioning of the PDS for this …
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This paper serves to disentangle the complex system of Indian food policies related to wheat and rice procurement …
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This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses...
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Bihar, India's poorest state, witnessed impressive yield growth in each of its three principal crops over 2005-17. This … trend of divergence for both crops going forward. In contrast, wheat yields seem to be converging to a common level recently …
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This paper present a model of the Green Revolution in India, in which the development and diffusion of HYVs, the … development and diffusion affect the impacts of climate on agricultural productivity in India. …
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knowledge and technology spillovers to local firms. One way how FDI speeds up growth is that it facilitates the manufacturing of … sophistication and spillovers from FDI. We then explore different channels through which spillovers from multinationals to local … Indian firms foster the manufacturing of sophisticated products. We find evidence that spillovers through supplier linkages …
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This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three … children. Spillovers to neighboring (untreated) mothers can be through social learning or imitation. Results from a difference … control group. Neighboring mothers exhibit learning spillovers, changes in dietary behavior and a reduction in food …
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