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 …

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 …

This paper models and estimates total factor productivity (TFP) growth parametrically. The model is a generalization of … unobservable technical change, scale economies and observable technology shifter index components. The empirical results are based … trend model based one. By comparing the performance of the time trend and technology index models in terms of TFP growth …

Variable Factor Productivity (TVFP) and bias of technical change are estimated and illuminated using figures for isoquant maps …

. Productivity measurement, taking these types of production functions into consideration, leads to different interpretations of … productivity change than traditional approaches not being clear about which production function concept is used. -- Structural … change ; productivity measurement ; putty-clay ; ex ante production function ; short-run industry production function …

combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed … components of the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index and the proposed index are different, the developments of …

technology index based on the external economic factors which are indicators of ‘technology’. Thus our definition of production … technical change and TFP growth of provinces. -- Technical change ; total factor productivity growth ; technology indicator …

consider a simple model in which the technology shifters are aggregated into one single index. The empirical model uses panel … productivity growth ; technology indicator ; technology shifter ; OECD countries …

This paper models and estimates total factor productivity (TFP) growth parametrically. The model is a generalization of … unobservable technical change, scale economies and observable technology shifter index components. The empirical results are based … trend model based one. By comparing the performance of the time trend and technology index models in terms of TFP growth …