combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed … components of the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index and the proposed index are different, the developments of …

In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the … examples. We find that the reliability of efficiency scores critically hinges upon the ratio of the variation in efficiency to …

We examine the educational production function and efficiency of public school districts in Illinois. Using … related) differs substantially from our efficiency scores, and standard parametric approaches drastically underestimate school … efficiency. We discuss the policy implications of our results …

. We illustrate our methodology by examining the cost efficiency of research programs in Economics and Business Management … cost efficiency differences between universities within specific specialization areas, even when using shadow prices to …

consider a simple model in which the technology shifters are aggregated into one single index. The empirical model uses panel …

efficiency of co-ops; and on problems of democratic governance within co-ops. Using modern empirical methods applied to large …

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …

world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy, economic growth, gender equality, human development, research and … capita on these six dimensions of development and their combined performance index. The residuals from these regressions are … indicators, derived from sociological dependency and world systems theories, we also test the predictive power of several other …

This paper models and estimates total factor productivity (TFP) growth parametrically. The model is a generalization of … unobservable technical change, scale economies and observable technology shifter index components. The empirical results are based … trend model based one. By comparing the performance of the time trend and technology index models in terms of TFP growth …

technology index based on the external economic factors which are indicators of technology. Thus our definition of production …