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Technical change and total factor productivity growth : the case of Chinese provinces
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal - 2010
technical change and TFP growth of provinces. -- Technical change ; total factor productivity growth ; technology indicator …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941555
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A general model of technical change with an application to the OECD countries
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal - 2011
productivity growth ; technology indicator ; technology shifter ; OECD countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009425734
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Bayesian approach to disentangling technical and environmental productivity
Malikov, Emir; Kumbhakar, Subal; Tsionas, Efthymios G. - In: Econometrics : open access journal 3 (2015) 2, pp. 443-465
the traditional (desirable-output-oriented) technical productivity and the undesirable-output-oriented environmental, or … so-called "green", productivity. To measure the latter, we derive a Solow-type Divisia environmental productivity index … which, unlike conventional productivity indices, allows crediting the ceteris paribus reduction in undesirable outputs. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011297619
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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth:The Case of Chinese Provinces
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as afunction of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affecttechnical change. In this paper we model technical change via time trend (purely externalnon-economic) as well as other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360600
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Estimation of productivity in Korean electric power plants : a semiparametric smooth coefficient model
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal; Sun, Kai - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of load factor, facility and generator types on the productivity of Korean electric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721346
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Corporate R&D and firm efficiency : evidence from Europe's top R&D investors
Kumbhakar, Subal; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, Lesley - 2010
by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal … firms. From a policy perspective, the results of this study suggest that - if the aim is to leverage firms' productivity … other hand, corporate R&D in the low-tech sector is found to have a minor effect in explaining productivity. Instead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011981958
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Accounting for cross-location technological heterogeneity in the measurement of operations efficiency and productivity
Malikov, Emir; Zhang, Jingfang; Zhao, Shunan; … - In: Journal of operations management 68 (2022) 2, pp. 153-184
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013166196
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Proxy variable estimation of productivity and efficiency
Tsionas, Efthymios G.; Kumbhakar, Subal - In: Southern economic journal 89 (2023) 3, pp. 885-923
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014309037
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Measuring Science: An Exploration
Adams, James; Griliches, Zvi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996
This paper examines available U.S. data on academic R&D expenditures and the number of papers published and the number of citations to these papers as possible measures of `output' of this enterprise. We look at these numbers for science and engineering as a whole, for 5 selected major fields,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778488
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Estimation of productivity in Korean electric power plants: A semiparametric smooth coefficient model
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal; Sun, Kai - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of load factor, facility and generator types on the productivity of Korean electric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293211