gives the opportunity to analyse the industry sector's productivity by minimizing the problem of endogeneity and therefore …

considered as a measure of this objective and, in turn, as a measure of productivity in relation to the production process in …

efficiency, labor productivity, and growth. We also include imports into the knowledge production function, because catching up … economies may adopt technologies embodied in imported hardware. Additionally, we link productivity and innovation output to … process innovation in all performance features except for labor productivity. However, higher efficiency does not improve the …

. Moreover, and applying duality theory, we develop an economic model to assess the effect of postal infrastructures on the …

Total Factor Productivity (TFP) accounts for a sizeable proportion of the income and growth differences across …

productivity growth with indicators of capitalization, return and risk. Our novel Multiple Indicator-Multiple Cause (MIMIC) style … productivity growth. We find considerable variation in the performance of EU-15 banks over the period 2008 to 2015. For the vast … majority of banks, productivity growth – the sum of efficiency and technical changes – is negative, implying that the industry …

shortcoming in two ways. First, to introduce copula models and aspects of copula theory that are especially relevant for a …