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 the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …

is highly disaggregated at the industry level with an input-output network structure. Measured productivity in the model …-specific, uncorrelated across industries. The bulk of the aggregate fluctuations, including those in aggregate measured productivity, are … data. Our second finding is that about half of the decrease in the cyclicality of measured productivity in the U.S. after …

as the impact of these activities on firm-level productivity. The evidence gathered suggests that countries in the South …-owned firms as the most innovative of the region. The evidence also suggests a positive impact of innovation on productivity …