This article presents an estimation of a stochastic frontier model using a translogarithmic production function to identify the impact of production factors - labor and capital - along with CO2 emissions and technical progress on the value added of the manufacturing sector in North American...

Elite economics PhD programs aim to train graduate students for a lifetime of academic research. This paper asks how advising affects graduate students' post-PhD research productivity. Advising is highly concentrated: at the eight highly-selective schools in our study, a minority of advisors do...

This paper analyses the contribution of the renewable and non-renewable primary energy consumption per capita and the gross fixed capital formation per capita to sustainable economic growth using two models approximated by CES-type functions. Estimates are made by applying the TRANSLOG method....

This paper advances our understanding of the transformative role of innovation in labor share dynamics over recent decades of rapid technological evolution. We introduce a novel methodology to disentangle the direction and substitution effects of technological change, drawing on comprehensive...