distribution dynamics approach in order to analyse the role of some variables in the convergence of productivity across European … regions over the period 1980-2002. We find that the initial productivity crucially accounts in the convergence process across … range of initial productivity. The structural change of regional economies plays a positive role, but such effect is …

might vary across regions depending on their productivity gap with the most productive region in their country. Our … hypothesis is that regional productivity growth is positively related to the productivity growth of the leading region within the … country and positively related to the productivity gap with the region that has the highest level of productivity in the …

technology index based on the external economic factors which are indicators of technology. Thus our definition of production …

technology index based on the external economic factors which are indicators of ‘technology’. Thus our definition of production … technical change and TFP growth of provinces. -- Technical change ; total factor productivity growth ; technology indicator …

complete Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator when the input and output directional distance functions can be … superlative measures of the Luenberger productivity indicator and Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator coincide …

factor productivity growth (TFPG) index. These are easiest to understand for the case in which the index number problem is …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 …

systematic way. This paper revisits the debate on how to decompose Bjurek's concept of a Malmquist productivity index into … time a theoretical justification for the geometric average form of the Bjurek productivity index …Caves, Christensen, Diewert introduced Malmquist output, input and productivity indexes into production theory in a …

combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed … components of the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index and the proposed index are different, the developments of …