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The Impact of Economic Reform on the Performance of Chinese State Enterprises : 1980--1989

Li, Wei - 1998

The effectiveness of China's incremental industrial reform between 1980--89 is investigated using a panel data set of 272 state enterprises. This paper applies a method that measures marginal products of factors and changes in total factor productivity (TFP) by comparing actual changes in output...

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Reforms and Productivity Dynamics in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

McGoldrick, Peter; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2021

Institutional change has taken place gradually since 1978 for State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in the Industrial Sector of China. In this paper we estimate the effect of deep reform (the right to hire and fire labour, buy and sell capital and operate on international markets) on the productivity...

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Efficiency of Large Scale Manufacturing in Pakistan : A Production Frontier Approach

Mahmood, Tariq; Ghani, Ejaz; Din, Musleh-ud - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

This paper examines the efficiency of the large scale manufacturing sector of Pakistan using the stochastic production …-digit PSIC. The results show that there has been some improvement in the efficiency of the large scale manufacturing sector … industrial groups have gained in terms of technical efficiency, some industries have shown deterioration in their efficiency …

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TFP growth in old and new Europe

Burda, Michael C.; Severgnini, Battista - 2009

Using Solow-Törnqvist residuals as well as two alternative measurements, we present estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in a sample of 30 European economies for the period 1994-2005. In most of Western Europe, we find a deceleration of TFP growth since 2000. However, the...

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Measuring the Efficiency and the Effect of Corporate Governance on the Biotechnology and Medical Equipment Industries in Taiwan

Lee, Yen-Hsien; Huang, Ya-Ling; Hsu, Shiuh-Sheng; Hung, … - In: International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues 3 (2013) 3, pp. 662-672

This study adopts data envelopment analysis with Tobit regression analysis to measure the efficiency and investigate … the influence of corporate governance on the efficiency of the biotechnology and medical equipment industries in Taiwan …. The empirical results show that while inside equity influences the efficiency of profitability in the pharmaceutical …

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Reforms and Productivity Dynamics in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

McGoldrick, Peter; Walsh, Patrick Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

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Efficiency of Large Scale Manufacturing in Pakistan: A Production Frontier Approach

Mahmood, Tariq; Ghani, Ejaz; Din, Musleh-ud - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2007

This paper examines the efficiency of the large scale manufacturing sector of Pakistan using the stochastic production … 5-digit PSIC. The results show that there has been some improvement in the efficiency of the large scale manufacturing … majority of industrial groups have gained in terms of technical efficiency, some industries have shown deterioration in their …

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Has China’s Economic Reform Improved Enterprise Performance? A DEA Evaluation Of China’s Large And Medium Enterprises

Qing Gong, Yang - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2004

determine enterprise efficiency in the context of China’s transition. Contrast to the results of improving enterprise … efficiency rather than a convergence of firm’s efficiency as is expected from a competitive market. Similar to other studies …’ efficiency gap may arise from their historical legacy; enterprise reform characterised by profit retention program have improved …

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The Missing Link Between Financial Constraints and Productivity

Badia, Marialuz Moreno; Slootmaekers, Veerle - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on the link between finance and firm-level productivity focusing on the case of Estonia. We contribute to the literature in two important respects: (1) we look explicitly at the role of financial constraints; and (2) we develop a methodology that corrects for the...

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TFP Growth in Old and New Europe

Burda, Michael C.; Severgnini, Battista - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2009

Using Solow-Tornqvist residuals as well as two alternative measurements, we present estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in a sample of 30 European economies for the period 1994-2005. In most of Western Europe, we find a deceleration of TFP growth since 2000. However, the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036232