This paper investigates the link between competition and efficiency for the Hungarian corporate sector during various … estimated production functions indicate a gradual improvement in efficiency and a shift from decreasing to increasing returns to … efficiency of the firm. …

A method for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions is proposed. It is examined … method is applied to 1-digit industries of 14 OECD countries from 1970 - 90. Results suggests that comovements in efficiency …

A method for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions is proposed. It is examined …

Total Factor Productivity (TFP)is often used on the macro-economic level as an indicator of changes in efficiency of a … increasing and become positive after a (quite a) few years of transition. Many authors conclude that this is a gain in efficiency … increases in efficiency. To investigate this, the mathematical properties of TFP are analysed in order to generate new insights …

to decompose total factor productivity (TFP) growth into technical efficiency changes (catching up) and technological … separately estimate technical efficiency change, which is a component of TFP growth, and we find that, in general, the estimated … technical efficiency of the high-performing East Asian economies was not out of line with the rest of the world. …