The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results...

Multi-plant firms pit their facilities against each other for production assignments. The present paper studies the consequences of that practice in a model where production is limited by capacity constraints and asymmetric information allows facilities to accumulate slack. The amount of slack...

Complete decomposition model has been employed in the present study to decompose the changes in energy consumption and energy intensity in Pakistan during 1960 to 1998. A general decomposition model raises a problem due to residual term. In some models the residual term is omitted, which causes...