capacity utilization measures, the authors show how these may be entered into measures of productivity. In particular, it is … shown how the Malmquist direct and indirect productivity measures are related to various measures of capacity utilization …

A new decomposition of the Malmquist productivity index is proposed to account for changes in plant capacity … methods of incorporating capacity utilization changes into measures of productivity change. Such measures are based on …

the traditional (desirable-output-oriented) technical productivity and the undesirable-output-oriented environmental, or … so-called "green", productivity. To measure the latter, we derive a Solow-type Divisia environmental productivity index … which, unlike conventional productivity indices, allows crediting the ceteris paribus reduction in undesirable outputs. Our …

Economic analysts have used trends in total factor productivity (TFP) to evaluate the effectiveness with which …

This chapter covers the theory and methods for productivity measurement for nations. Labor, multifactor and total … factor productivity measures are defined and are related to each other and to gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. Their … factor productivity growth (TFPG) index. These are easiest to understand for the case in which the index number problem is …

In this study, we attempt to identify the channels through which economic reforms enhanced the productivity growth in … that there was evidence of a favorable impact of economic reforms on productivity growth in total manufacturing, beyond the …

Labour productivity growth in the Canadian business sector slowed substantially after 2000. Most of the slowdown … and a slowdown in export growth. The paper finds that at least half of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is … because of the pro-cyclical nature of productivity growth arising from capacity utilization. Almost all of the aggregate …

In the classical theory of monotone equimeasurable rearrangements of functions, "equimeasurability" (i.e., the fact the … tools have been successfully used in many problems in economic theory dealing with uncertainty where the monotonicity of a … decision theory. It is hence natural to seek an extension of these classical tools of equimeasurable rearrangements to …