This paper deals with modeling firm-specific technical change (TC), and technological biases (inputs and scale) in estimating total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Several dual parametric econometric models are used for this purpose. We examine robustness of TFP growth and TC among competing...

This paper is concerned with a decision analytic extension of the waste input-output model, based on the method of linear programming. The resulting model, which is named the waste input-output linear programming model, allows one to automatically obtain an 'optimal' waste management and...

Factor demand studies of Komiya, Ozaki, Lau and Tamura based upon detailed cross-section data on individual production units have found that the nonhomothetic factor limitational ( NHT-FL) demand system, a nonhomothetic version of the Leontief fixed coefficient model, well explains the data....