Some recent research has shown that interest rate spreads have significant predictive power for the changes in real economic activity. After summarizing, the results of various interest rate spreads as predictors for the growth of the real GDP, the author examines the prediction of the...

The objective of the paper is to provide measures of technical efficiency for the Malaysian food manufacturing industry using panel data. The empirical results show that, on average, this industry has been achieving about 73 per cent of its potential output. This means that there are still ways...