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Exploring and explaining development gaps between countries is an important theoretical and empirical task. This paper presents empirical studies related to economic growth and its determinants across countries, based on the use of data envelopment analysis method. It emphasizes the importance...
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The aim of the paper is to measure the efficiency of an industry, and to decompose it into firm efficiencies—which indicate how close firms approximate best practices—and an organization efficiency—which indicates the degree of optimality of the number of firms and their distribution. The...
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efficiency change.In other words, the two well-known sources of productivity growth-technology and efficiency-can be augmented by … productivity growth and change transmitted by the best practices represents technical change.Although I use a nonparametric …
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productivity of Spanish hotels. The nonparametric frontier DEA methodology has been used to assess the levels of efficiency of the … most efficient and therefore more competitive. The results also show the rates of change in productivity in the period and …
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This paper analyzes national and regional efficiency and total factor productivity of Spanish hotels. The nonparametric …. The results also show the rates of change in productivity in the period and its main determinants: efficiency change and …
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data set and the latest technique for analysis. The paper focuses on growth in total factor productivity and its … period, total factor productivity has experienced a positive evolution in sampled countries. This good performance of the … regression in productivity in the 1970s, and made some progress during the 1980s and 1990s. The study also highlights the fact …
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This study intends to understand how disaster is related to countries' production efficiency using a sample of 137 countries over 1980 - 2011. We analyze the effect of the number of man-made and natural disaster occurrences on countries' technological change (swift of the frontier) and...
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In this paper, for the first time, we apply the Färe-Primont productivity index (FPI) to examine the agricultural total … factor productivity (TFP), during the period 2004-2016, in four regions of Greece: Macedonia and Thrace (region I), Epirus …
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This paper analyzes national and regional efficiency and total factor productivity of Spanish hotels. The nonparametric …. The results also show the rates of change in productivity in the period and its main determinants: efficiency change and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011954913
This paper investigates the forces driving output growth, namely technological, efficiency, and input changes, in 80 countries over the period 1970-2000. Relevant past studies typically assume that: (i) countries use resources efficiently, and (ii) the underlying production technology is the...
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