model, the state-wide total factor productivity growth (TFPG) indices of US commercial banks for each state for the 1971 …-1995 period. We observe that the productivity growth of commercial banks in state i depends strongly, positively, and … contemporaneously on the productivity growth of commercial banks located in state i's contiguous states. Further, "regulatory space …

industry data from 2000 to 2012, we decompose total factor productivity (TFP) change into the four components of embodied …

This article investigates the role played by public capital in increasing the productivity levels in Italy. For …

This paper investigates on the role played by public capital in increasing the productivity levels in Italy. For the …

control for cyclical effects, we modify a standard technique in firmlevel production function estimation using a capacity … productivity ; capacity utilization ; aggregation ; panel data …

We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor … productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic … variances has been used for the estimation of the translog production functions. Two alternative formulations of technical …

We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor … productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic … variances has been used for the estimation of the translog production functions. Two alternative formulations of technical …

are robust across different estimation methods. -- Total factor productivity ; Italian regions ; panel data …