Part I Productivity Measurement -- 1. Productivity Measurement – Past, Present and Future -- 2. Symmetric Decompositions of Aggregate Output and Labour Productivity Growth: On Levels, (Non-) Additivity, and Misallocation -- 3. Efficiency Analysis with Stochastic Frontier Models using Popular...

This article analyses the impact of trade and foreign investment on a small but not so open economy, Australia, whose growth rate outpaced the majority of the OECD countries in the last decade. We model five channels of outward orientation: exports, imports, foreign direct investment, foreign...

type="main" <p>In this paper we consider how choices in the econometric approach to impute prices affect the Törnqvist and Jevons hedonic imputed indexes. We compare the rolling window approach to estimation by smoothing methods. The main difference between the rolling window and the smoothing...</p>

We propose a theoretical and econometric framework to evaluate the impact of war on economic growth of a developing country with an open economy. The theoretical framework encompasses both the neoclassical and endogenous growth models. We test this framework using Sri Lankan data. The war had...

In this paper we consider how choices in the econometric approach to impute prices affect the Törnqvist and Jevons hedonic imputed indexes. We compare the rolling window approach to estimation by smoothing methods. The main difference between the rolling window and the smoothing methods is in...