The main aim of this paper is to compare and analyse the performance of total factor productivity (TFP) in the European … productivity in Turkey by evaluating the performance of the new member countries, namely, Greece, Portugal, and Spain, before and … after their membership.We use data envelopment analysis (DEA) to compute Malmquist productivity indices decomposed into two …

This study presents patterns of productivity change in a large set of 266 public higher education institutions (HEIs … confidence intervals for Malmquist indices of HEI productivity and their components. Consequently, we are able to assess … statistical significance of the changes in HEIs’ productivity, efficiency and technology. Our results suggest that when we treat …

domestic productivity. Our results display some heterogeneity across industries and types of acquisitions, suggesting a …

Review of Stephen Broadberry, Market Services and the Productivity Race 1850-2000: British Performance in International …

productivity (e.g., Brynjolfsson and Hitt (1996)) and Morrison (1997)), but little evidence on this relationship in services. We … attempt to fill this gap, by analyzing the impact of IT on the relative productivity of gambling establishments. Ours is also … the first empirical study of productivity in gambling, one of the fastest growing industries in the service sector. The …

communication technology (ICT) in explaining productivity growth in the United Kingdom, 1970-2000. The dataset is for 34 industries … accounted for 13% of productivity growth in the market sector in 1970-79 (ie 0.47 percentage points out of 3.62% per annum … productivity (TFP) growth slowed down in 1995-2000, but we find econometric evidence that a boom in 'complementary investment', ie …

This paper attempts to explain the level and dynamics of firm level productivity through a model of convergence, for UK … service sector firms over the period 1988 to 1998. Firms of different characteristics have different productivity levels and … firm and weak evidence that it is related to firm age. Given the high initial productivity of foreign owned firms we …

In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by micro and small firms, declined by 40 … percent between 1995 and 2014. This productivity decline also holds true for professional services in other European countries … small firms, despite their lower productivity levels, is not responsible for the decline. We also cannot confirm the …