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insights on the repercussions of the macro-economic reform policy agenda during the study period plagued by a productivity … slowdown and the productivity resurgence due to the emergence of the ‘new economy’ and now the challenges to sharpen the … provide superior testable insights on productivity and technical inefficiency than the rival non-parametric Data Envelopment …
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Increasing energy efficiency is one of the main goals in current German energy and climate policies. We study the determinants of energy efficiency in the German manufacturing sector based on official firm-level production census data. By means of a stochastic frontier analysis, we estimate the...
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In this paper the Stochastic Frontier approach was used for the estimation and decomposition of manufacturing TFP …
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This paper investigates the spillover effect (backward, forward, and horizontal linkage) of foreign direct investment (FDI) firms on the technical efficiency of local firms. This research extends the literature by employing meta-frontier framework analysis which is superior to single stochastic...
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productivity and efficiency. Traditional growth theories focus on the first factor where in developing countries, and especially … in the productivity and efficiency and use of the excess capacity has focused. Therefore, the efficiency analysis of …
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This paper investigates the sources of total factor productivity growth in the German manufacturing sector, 1981 …-1998. Decomposition formulae for aggregate productivity growth are used to identify the effects of structural change and entry-exit on … aggregate productivity growth. Documented is a substantial rise of productivity growth after the German reunification. The bulk …
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considered as a measure of this objective and, in turn, as a measure of productivity in relation to the production process in …
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In this paper the Stochastic Frontier approach was used for the estimation and decomposition of manufacturing TFP …
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This paper explore the role of institutions to enhance the productivity growth across countries using a two stage … Double Bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The productivity growth is calculated on the basis of Malmquist … productivity index. It also explores the sources of productivity growth and the influence of different types of institutions …
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measures and Malmquist productivity indices. The efficiency and productivity measures are obtained from non-parametric linear …, using data from the years 1992 and 1993. Significant positive changes in productivity are found mainly for departments … located at medium sized hospitals. On average, the positive productivity change is due to a progressive development of the …
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