This article uses data on 27,000 firms from 50 countries, half of which are transition economies, together with the specific case of Serbia to examine the relationship between productivity, the investment climate and private ownership of firms. As government capacity to address the investment...

In this chapter, Quentin Grafton, Stephen Knowles and Dorian Owen examine the implications for productivity arising from the level of social diversity along a variety of dimensions, including ethnic, linguistic and religious differences and inequalities between rich and poor. Their basic...

The economic development in the 1990s with the most important long-term consequences was the acceleration of productivity growth in the United States after 1995. In this article, Dale W. Jorgenson of Harvard University, Mun S. Ho from Resources for the Future, and Kevin J. Stiroh of the Federal...

While much attention has focused on the factors that brought about the so-called new economy, much less attention has been paid to optimal policy responses following the establishment of the new economy. In the third article, Gilbert Cette and Christian Pfister from the Bank of France provide...

This paper examines the pre-exit productivity performance and asks how productivity affects future survival, using firm-level data in Japan for 1995-2002. We found that firms did not face "sudden death" but there was a "shadow of death." Future exiting firms had lower performance four years...

This study analyses the production function estimation when there is an unobservable idiosyncratic productivity shock and the series of the productivity shock follows a first-order endogenous Markov process which is controlled by R&D investment. The production function approach, in general,...

Bu çalışmanın amacı Veri Zarflama Analizi (VZA) ve Malmquist Toplam Faktör Verimliliği (TFP) Endeksi yaklaşımlarını kullanarak 2000-2002 döneminde İMKB Ulusal Pazarda yer alan dokuma, giyim eşyası ve deri 1 ve gıda, içki ve tütün firmalarının etkinliklerini ölçmek ve...

Sermaye piyasalarının vazgeçilmez unsurlarından olan aracı kurumlar, son yıllarda yaşanan teknolojik ilerlemelerden son derece etkilenmişlerdir ve gelecekte daha da etkilenmeleri beklenmektedir. Aracı kurumların sundukları hizmetleri internet üzerinden gerçekleştirmelerine olanak...

Bu çalışmada Türkiye’deki hayat-dışı sigorta şirketlerinin 1998 – 2003 yılları arasında göreli etkinlikleri incelenmiş ve bunun için veri zarflama analizinden yararlanılmıştır. Sigorta şirketlerinin veri zarflama analizi ile elde edilen etkinlik değerlerinin deprem ve...

In the year 2000 the government of Zimbabwe launched the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) as part of its ongoing land reform and resettlement programme, which seeks to address the racially skewed land distribution pattern inherited at independence in 1980. This paper uses data on...