This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …

Here, we consider the problem of aggregation of efficiency and productivity indices. We will summarize some of the … existing results and will derive new results for aggregation of Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indices. …

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 …

productivity measures is observed due to the choice of method imposed, various levels of commodity/input aggregation, and …-weights are skewed leading to the difference in the productivity measures due to aggregation …This paper demonstrates the sensitivity of the linear programming approach in the estimation of productivity measures …