and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all parts of the distribution) from 1992-94 to 1995-97 and did not change … from 1995-97 to 1998-2000. The distance to the frontier is, however, orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in the …

privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … efficiency frontier is much larger than that of the Czech firms and continued to grow for most firms beyond 1997 while remaining … constant in the Czech Republic. Domestic firms closer to the frontier are not more likely to catch up than firms further from …

Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in …

when we can separate the effect on efficiency from the effect on distribution, that is when Gorman aggregation applies, the …

We show the importance of a dynamic aggregation bias in accounting for the PPP puzzle. We prove that established time …

This paper develops a statistical aggregation procedure for the Frisch elasticity of labor supply. It allows for worker …