estimate productivity change, technological change, and relative efficiency change in China's telecommunications industry for … substantial productivity growth. The actual productivity growth pattern in the sector, however, need to be empirically examined …. In this paper, using input and output data at the provincial level, we employ DEA-based Malmquist productivity index to …

This work decompose labor-productivity grotwh and convergence in EU into components attributable to technological … change. With this purpose we applied the Malmquist index of total factor productivity to an European data base to provide … studied related to integration with factor accumulation and efficiency change as important factors of convergence while …

productivity for a sample of 33 developing countries over the period 1980-2005. Using panel cointegration techniques, we find that …: (i) outward FDI has, on average, a positive long-run effect on total factor productivity in developing countries, (ii …) increased factor productivity is both consequence and a cause of increased outward FDI, and (iii) there are large differences in …

Keywords: endogenous growth theory, new economic geography, knowledge spillovers, total factor productivity, agglomeration …

The focus of the paper is on evaluating the productivity gap between rural and urban locations in the UK using micro … data. We build a structural model of the unobservable productivity emphasising the link between productivity and spatial … - 2001. We allow market structure to differ by endogenous export status and location choices and model productivity as a …

Firms productivity is crucially influenced by knowledge spillovers generated either by other firms located nearby or by … efficiency-enhancing knowledge diffusion, which can be exploited by local firms to extract relevant information on consumer … exploit the new information and increase the overall efficiency level of the local economy. More specifically, we examine …

knowledge spillovers on total factor productivity (TFP) in China ? at the level of Chinese regions ? through the lens of the … regional knowledge capital model (KCM). The KCM has become the cornerstone of the productivity literature and has been applied … in numerous empirical studies focusing on firm-level productivity, subsequently extended to the more aggregated industry …

There is a substantial heterogeneity in productivity when comparing individual firms. However, even when heterogeneity …